Sorry, no. My most optimistic model, which assumes immediate global intervention at best speed with perfect execution has 1.2 million dead. And that is exceedingly unlikely.

Losing 90% of your population in one year can really put a dent in economic growth. But the survivors will probably have other things to worry about.

If only the /. summary were attached to some sort of News article. They should consider making that an option so that people could read the attached article before commenting on it.

It is actually geometric growth, because the doubling period is getting shorter. Not that it matters much.

Regrettably, this is actually a thing. Also, bathing children in the funerary water of an Imam. This was a recent story. Ah, there it is... http://awoko.org/2014/09/15/si...

Let't not exaggerate and cause a panic. The community resolution death rate is ~90%, not above 90%. And with treatment your chances of surviving Ebola exposure might be as high as one in three.

Ebola doesn't have to become airborne to wipe out mankind. It just has to change enough to kill the 1% who survive the first (West Africa) and second (DR Congo) waves.

This strain of misinformation is not helpful. Doctors are human all over the world. They make mistakes when they are on a long shift without sleep, making do with limited resource, doing their best against an insurmountable terror. Just imagine dedicating yourself to a life of saving lives and thrust into a situation where no matter what you do 60% of your patients are going to die. Struggling with all your might because even that is four times the survival rate without modern medical treatment. And yet outside your clinic are guards who turn away more desperately ill people than they let in, and more every day. This is the reality. In the US you are proud of our first world medicine? Try to access that care when any kid with sniffles can be carrying a disease that kills doctors. You will find that a lot of doctors in the first world can afford a long sabbatical.

Yuuup.

Americans have other dirty habits West Africans don't have, such as snorting drugs of unknown origin.

The West Point slum quarantine was only for a few days. There were already more patients outside the quarantine than inside. It was more of a toll road than a medical quarantine anyway - people were regularly crossing for as little as $2. This is Liberia.

Bull. The only reason anyone pays minimum is because they get away with it. Why the heck should I pay more than minimum wage if I can get what I want for that? Do you honestly think anyone would go "gee, that guy is good, I needn't pay him more 'cause there's nothing he can do, but 'cause I'm so impressed with his great work, here's five bucks more per hour!"?

So socialism doesn't give you a choice, you're a slave or if you refuse, you get paid by the state by wellfare.

Capitalism gives you the choice to be a slave or to starve.

I dunno. Most people would probably prefer socialism. But hey, what do I know about socialism, being in Europe. That's something I should leave to the experts across the big pond who have loads and loads of first hand experience with socialist systems...

That's a great story. And where, say, do you get your customers? Where did you meet them? How did they learn that you're in the market? And that you're worth any dime they pay you?

Valuable experience in how to bullshit customers, invent colorful descriptions of events and places she's never seen or experienced and finding visual proof of those aforementioned stories.

Great resume for a political career, everything you need to convince your people to go to war with some country is right there.