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Originally Posted by Eric
Hundreds are dying from Ebola ... somehow this seems more "tragic" (one of the most overused words in the media vocabulary  ) than the tens of thousands who starve to death on that unfortunate continent, or are massacred by whatever group of goons can get together enough AKs and machetes. We can conveniently forget about those things and concentrate on the new, designer issue, "Ebola". |
It's easily explained....Ebola makes no distinction on whether you are rich or poor.....nobody with money is ever going to starve to death and they are unlikely to end up on the wrong end of a machete in some backwater hovel
Then again maybe thats just me being my usual cynical self