There was a long thread last month regarding Ebola "coming to the US!!" panic, but no one has posted in that for almost 4 weeks, so I'm starting a new one. Today, I got this great video in my Upworthy feed made by John Green. If you don't know who he is, then it must be because you don't have tweens and teens in your home. Mr. Green, besides being a fiction author (think The Fault in Our Stars), has been producing videos on YouTube for years. These videos are amazing social commentaries and are generally science based. As in, evidence based commentary. My kids love them and I have to admit, I do too. I even read the book with my daughter...
Anyway, recently, he was hospitalized with viral meningitis but the Internet was filled with "John Green has Ebola!!" gossip because he happened to have visited Ethiopia prior to getting sick. As John explains in this video that I am linking to here, Ethiopia is as close to the Ebola virus as "England is to Afghanistan". But, people just don't think that way. Africa is the Ebola continent in the Western mind.
