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Lots of Florida kids around here have probably been through at least one major hurricane. I was in Naples when Wilma made Landfall as a 5. The stores were pretty gutted, people were gouging fresh water in the streets and we lost power for a month; but it just wasn't that bad. Obviously an actual pandemic would be a different scenario, especially one with such a protracted incubation, like Ebola- but the relative panic would be well-rooted in isolation from one another, which Americans in particular are actually rather apt at, if you ask me.
When we speak of panic and a misinformed population in North America, though, it just doesn't quite compare to these West African nations. In Guinea last month, for example:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014...N0HD2JE20140918
There's a gaping cultural disconnect when it comes to herd welfare in these countries. Compounded I suppose by the fact that Guinea happens to be 80%+ Muslim, and the West has a problematic track record with healthcare and Muslim communities, the seeds of distrust have probably inflated the spread and the death rate far beyond what any western nation would experience.
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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I'm not in the least bit worried about what's going on, rest assured.
