HOLY COW! Did you know that Ebola has killed a little over 6200 people world wide!!! By this time next year close to 500,000 will have died because of it!!!!
Hold on...I apologize. I got my facts wrong. That would be just "falling" wrong that's gonna kill almost half a million people in the next year.
As a matter of fact here's a worldwide annual death toll (and obviously approximate figures) for the following diseases and/or accidental/deliberate causes of death
1) Coronary Heart Disease 7,253,824
2) Stroke 6,151,154
3) Influenza & Pneumonia 3,463,256
4) Lung Disease 3,278,167
5) Diarrhoeal diseases 2,464,425
6) HIV/AIDS 1,776,270
7) Lung Cancers 1,387,121
8) Tuberculosis 1,341,768
9) Diabetes Mellitus 1,255,477
10) Road Traffic Accidents 1,208,629
11) Hypertension 1,153,308
12) Other Injuries 1,145,949
13) Low Birth Weight 995,687
14) Liver Disease 848,636
15) Malaria 826,908
16) Suicide 781,927
17) Birth Trauma 779,004
18) Kidney Disease 775,103
19) Stomach Cancer 758,152
20) Liver Cancer 695,200
21) Colon-Rectum Cancers 647,014
22) Alzheimer's/Dementia 539,922
23) Violence 535,369
24) Falls 510,331
25) Breast Cancer 482,362
There happen to be another 54 diseases and/or accidental/deliberate causes of death that have higher annual death rates than the total death rate of Ebola.
Ebola has killed a little over 6200 people since 1976. That's 6200 "since" 1976.
People need to quit getting their information from the fear mongering, xenophobic programs like Fox News, Breitbart News, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the CONservative sites that some of you think give you the facts.
If you actually cared about people you would have been saying something about the rest of these diseases and MANY OTHERS far deadlier, but it seems you only give a shit if it scares you and you think it can happen to you. No one cared while it was contained to Africa, but once it got to the U.S....Oh Boy!...it's the freaking end of the world.
Congratulations, you're the biggest part of what's wrong with the world today- selfishness, fear and ignorance! So stop it. Get informed. And give a damn about what's going on in the world around you.
And one last thing to ponder...
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
― Ernest Hemingway
The source of these figures came from here...http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/... and they compiled all the figures from the World Heath Organization.
Confession time...I originally wrote & posted this on Facebook because of all the asinine comments going around. Hopefully this will contribute to a little thinking by some people. Or not.