"Yeah, but Ebola is more contagious!", wrote a friend of a friend justifying their worry on Ebola

"Yeah, but Ebola is more contagious!", wrote a friend of a friend justifying their worry on Ebola.

Actually, no. This is not true.

Just take alcohol (which I am fond of). + Driving = Drunk Driving. You chances of dying from catching the drunk driving is 10,000 x a year more likely than Ebola - and if you are not a health care professional is is zero.

Then you have smoking with second hand smoke, and obesity with the social contagion effect, and of course my favorite disease: small penis virus where you have to buy a gun to get out of bed in the morning. These are all diseases that collectively kill hundreds of thousands of americans a year.

In fact drunk driving in *West Africa* kills far more people than Ebola.

So, stop freaking out about Ebola.

Originally posted on Facebook on October 17, 2014.