icepick wrote:
Health care workers actually have a point here. The risk involved is higher than that of a steeple climber. But those most at risk do not make $250 an hour. However, experienced doctors are not as much at risk, but can make upwards of $600 a minute in some hospital settings. Time for them to share the wealth?

Here is what I see coming out of this; a new type of racism. Only one Ebola case has died in America. A person of Negroid descent. But he was African, and the religion practiced in that part of Africa, a variation of Voodoo, would promote the spread of this disease, as it promotes extreme contact with the bodily fluids of the dead. However, that will be lost on the general public, should this pattern continue. Notice will be taken of the fact that other strange and deadly diseases that are difficult to transmit tend to spread like wildfire in this part of Africa. Thirty years ago, nearly everybody between 8 and 80 died of Slim's Disease (AIDS) there. Much will be made of this, and Negroid peoples will come to be seen as carriers of weird diseases through nothing more than fear and ignorance.

Does everybody see where I am going with this? If indeed a sinister motive is afoot, it may serve a far darker purpose than selling insurance.

In many places in Africa they are also quite promiscuous which would also spread the disease...... its what caused Aids to spread so easily throughout Africa.  Also they are very superstitious and blaming bad spirits.  That is why many when they catch a disease run away out of fear of bad spirits. 

$600 a minute!!! smiley: eek  I mean how many tyres do they need for their flash cars.....  how many pools and spas can they put in their mansions?  Its darn ridiculous! 

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~