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That people love to fearmonger for views and ratings, also they want someone to blame that has absolutely nothing to do with the outbreak.

Personally I think this entire thing is blown extremely out of proportion by the media (at least in the US, where we are rated #1 at preventing things like this). Compare it at the same time to swine flu and the results are extremely interesting.

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What do you think about Marc Lipsitch's analysis is overblown?

I wasn't referring directly to this article with the "fearmongering" opinion. However, in regards to Lipsitch's analysis he uses a lot of "may be, we don't know, etc.." speculation that seems to hint that even the experts don't quite have the full grasp of the situation yet either.

I am all for safety and notifying the public of immediate threats, and taking the correct precautions. But, at this point it seems increasingly that these predictions and analysis are being too quickly released with not enough information so you get great amounts of speculation which therein fuels panic.

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