I started a new thread on this but thought it also deserved to be in this thread:

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There are secondary effects of a bad Ebola event which "could" lead to even more deaths than just the direct deaths (at least for the industrialized world)



COLLAPSE OF THE HIGH TECH MEDICAL SUPPLY CHAIN FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT TO LIVE

About 1 in 20 to 1 in 30 Americans NEED regular High Tech Medical Intervention in order to keep living normal lives. This includes Diabetics, Heart Patients, People with Other Deficencies, Kidney Dialysis, Transplant Patients, Nursing Home Patients, etc..

In other words the risk of an additional 5% die off of people in the US exists "IF" the Ebola situation causes a collapse in our High Tech Medical Supply Chain even if those people do NOT contract Ebola.



FOOD and risk of FAMINE

In days of old, as late as the 1960/70's there were LOTS of farmers who produced our food in the US). Today a small percentage of those numbers now produce our food (at least in the US) and the production process is very high tech. While rural areas may have a MUCH lower infection and death rate, they may not, but if there is a vast reduction in those who know how to farm, OR the support supply chain that allows our FACTORY FARMS to produce, then on the heels of Ebola could come serious famine issues.



NUCLEAR POWER PLANT MELTDOWN RISKS (scariest of all)

A couple of posters have already commented that Nuclear Power Plants require Well Trained People operating them PLUS a continuous supply chain of Electric Power and cooling water in order to avoid a Fukoshima situation ... EVEN WHEN THEY ARE SHUT DOWN!! (cooling pools will overheat and old fuel will melt ... ala Fukushima ... if the ELECTRIC pumps stop and the water cooling them stops flowing through the pools ... a reactor recently shut down REQUIRES WEEKS to cool down! ... also needing a continual supply of cooling water while that is going on). NO Operators or NO Electric Power for Cooling = Nuclear Plant meltdown ala Fukushima! ... A No-Go zone for miles around for maybe a 1000 years or more.