Ebola Monster

Ebola.

That one word has stricken fear in the hearts of the world, and with good reason! A disease with a 50-90% fatality rate should. Besides the fact that it's most dramatic symptoms include hemorrage, there isn't any known treatment and there's no vaccine. If you get Ebola, you will likely die. Pretty much, the doctors have to keep you from infecting other people, keep you hydrated, and keep you breathing until your body decides whether or not it's going to beat the virus.

Pretty. Scary. Stuff.

If the disease itself isn't scary enough, the fact that there's an epidemic in Africa should be. But just in case that doesn't freak you out enough, let's bring this closer to home. Two people fighting this disease are being brought to the U.S!

EBOLA IS COMING TO AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or is it?

Since the news broke that two of our own would be evacuated back to their homeland for treatment, people have been freaking out. I made the mistake of reading some of the comments on my local news station's Facebook page and was just appalled by the heartlessness. Even Donald Trump has taken to Social media to protest.
Check out this tweet:

"The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!"

Oh and here's another one just to let you know he how serious he is.

Stop the EBOLA patients from entering the U.S. Treat them, at the highest level, over there. THE UNITED STATES HAS ENOUGH PROBLEMS!

I get it. I do. Nobody wants to die of a hemorrhagic fever, and a lot of us who are at least 20 years old have seen the movie "Outbreak."  I've been scared of spider monkeys ever since, and that scene where Rene Rosso gets accidentally stabbed with a needle, still freaks me out. Words like "epidemic," "Incurable," and "Ebola" make us panic.

Words like that, make us think that this is about to happen.

Here's the deal. Ebola is bad. REAL bad, but Dr. Brantly and Nancy Writebol aren't going to get you or any of your loved ones sick. They need to come home to America where they have the best chance. The containment unit where they are going is literally one of the best in the world. There's only 4 of them in the country. Have you seen the pictures of their ride over here? It's an air ambulance that would make a king jealous. You won't get sick from these two.

I'm not going to lose any sleep worrying about an Ebola outbreak in America, and I hope that you don't either. If an infected person travels to the U.S. and manages to make it past the rigorous screening, quite a few people will get sick. Quite a few people will die. The risk of the virus infecting people here is real, but the odds are in your favor, just because you happen to live in a first world country. Because we don't bury our own dead, because we can quickly get medical treatment, and because we generally avoid sick people's bodily fluids, etc. The chances of the epidemic ravaging our country the same way it is Sierra Leone aren't that great.

I tell you what I will lose sleep over though. I will lose sleep praying. I'm praying that treatment is developed soon, and that a vaccine can be made. I'm praying that Dr. Brantly and Nancy Writebol get to America safely, and that they both recover. I'm praying that this epidemic ends, and soon. I'm praying that the disease stops spreading. I'm praying. I'm not tweeting. I'm not protesting.

Will you pray too?