"When you say it's a global economy, I don't think you realize how many people -- even those who work in global businesses, like the big consulting firms -- still don't have a grip on that. And as for the general public, they've been conditioned by the movies about plagues. As a lifetime trained observer of the health care system, I can see that in America, Ebola is somewhat easily treated if the patient gets to the hospital early enough. We're afraid here, but we don't really need to be; we are not from a culture that thinks doctors in HazMat suits are zombies come to take away bodies for organ harvests. That is actually what some people in Africa do think, because Westerners have been taking resources from Africans for the last couple of centuries, so why not now organs? Or perhaps we are from a superstitious culture after all? Ironically, now it's the Americans who think the returning health care workers are zombies presenting a death threat. Health care workers take chances EVERY..." - Francine Hardaway