Barricade your doors, cover your windows, stock up on supplies, Ebola is coming! Everybody hide… or naw?

Yes Ebola is obviously a scary virus and the death toll in Africa is unfortunate, but calm down. Four people got it in America and everybody wants to shut down schools, quarantine people, and avoid all human contact. It’s ridiculous.

If you have done any research on Ebola you would know that it’s increasingly difficult to contract the disease, for one reason, it is not airborne. Ebola also can’t be contracted through casual touch or face to face conversations, as long as you don’t take a sneeze directly in your mouth you should be a-okay.

Now the reason you have been seeing more people getting Ebola is simply because health care workers work directly with the infected people. It’s not uncommon for someone to get sick when dealing with other sick people. We should only really be concerned when we see cases popping up in individuals that have had nothing to do with Ebola patients. For example, if you walk to the corner store to get a soda and return home with blood shooting out of your eyeballs and ear holes, then you could maybe have cause for concern, maybe.

Some of the media has been completely blowing Ebola out of proportion, running stories like “17 Texas Kindergarteners Contract Ebola After Exposure to Liberian Foreign Exchange Student” and “CDC Whistleblower Exposes Ebola Vaccinations Containing RFID Chips”. Both of these stories were false and both were posted on www.nationalreport.net, a fake news site that publishes sensational, made-up stories. Both stories were also shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook meaning that many people believed them. If you come across a story like this that seems too ridiculous to be true, stop and check it out on www.snopes.com before freaking out and sharing it with all your friends.

Ebola is honestly not a threat and most likely won’t be a threat in America, we are too smart to let something so small wipe us out.