that is true but it's not like everyone there stays in one place either. you like pointing out "people think x about africa", but the same could easily apply to your posts. I only brought up the distance between florida and new york to counter your claim that it was actually more like the distance between france and india. and no there aren't any trans-african road trips that I know of, but african nations are not a bunch of tribes livin in straw huts and hunting boars with stone-tipped spears...as...as some uncultured ignoramuses seem to think. nigeria and south africa are pretty modernized nations and I really doubt there is no flight or sea travel between them and nearby nations.

Of course Nigeria has air travel, but Nigerian planes fly to Europe and the Middle East so the virus could just as easily spread there! I mean there is certainly more commuter traffic in between African nations but many many many people in Nigeria and Zambia live below the poverty line and it's not like they're jet setting all around Africa! When you take into account that a lot of people in rural areas of some of the richest countries in the world don't ever leave the area they grew up in, thinking that maybe the number of Zambian tourists in Nigeria is low is pretty reasonable. Besides how many people do you think can fit in a plane made out of bamboo you dummy?!

all of that is kinda pointless tho because apparently this thing doesn't spread at all. but I don't think it's unreasonable to hear this news and have a nervous reaction SHIT IM GOING TO AFRICA before reason settles in.

and I don't really think this is a thing people do with africa. maybe it's worse because africa is such a big place, but people definitely do it with europe too and I think even south america. I never heard it with asia but it's possible, china definitely.

Yeah but a) I think posting in real time with your thoughts is dumb and b) I'm not singling out Africa, I'm talking about people who think cultures on other continents are absolutely interchangeable and so whatever malady befalls one must befall everyone who looks like them! Just because people apply the same dumb attitude elsewhere doesn't really help your argument. Unless you thought I was just talking about Africa in which case it does but I wasn't so it doesn't! Sorry if it seemed like I was though!

When people read things on the internet they should go  "​" not post right away! The internet isn't going to disappear in the next five minutes.

edit: If Wunderbread gets this virus now I am in deep trouble!

Honest to god, every single time I see ____ VIRUS I read the article expecting to hear "dead returning to life to feast on the living".

Been reading too much zombiefiction.

Yo, have you ever woken up, saw that all the people you live with are gone someplace, notice it is super quiet and then start thinking that the zombie apocalypse has happened while you were asleep? I have...

Prepare your rocket launcher's were going to Africa.