In case somebody ever tries to use this as an argument against treating it as a problem, I wish to point out that people 'often' get Ebola and don't die. In fact, the average EBV mortality rate is 'only' 50%, and there have been outbreaks where it was as low as 25%. This isn't just a hyperbolic comparison for shock value. When something is not caused by vocal humans with a political interest, we treat a 50% or even 75% 'everything turning out OK' rate as pretty terrible. It's only when humans get in and start arguing that "oh, look at all these people who were FINE" that people start thinking "maybe it's not as bad as I think!"
(In case it's not obvious, I sincerely do not think anyone reading this would go "oh, people are often OK, so it's fine." I'm talking about sea lions you might have to deal with.)
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In case somebody ever tries to use this as an argument against treating it as a problem, I wish to point out that people 'often' get Ebola and don't die. In fact, the average EBV mortality rate is 'only' 50%, and there have been outbreaks where it was as low as 25%. This isn't just a hyperbolic comparison for shock value. When something is not caused by vocal humans with a political interest, we treat a 50% or even 75% 'everything turning out OK' rate as pretty terrible. It's only when humans get in and start arguing that "oh, look at all these people who were FINE" that people start thinking "maybe it's not as bad as I think!"
(In case it's not obvious, I sincerely do not think anyone reading this would go "oh, people are often OK, so it's fine." I'm talking about sea lions you might have to deal with.)