Heller Poll results: The zika virus is both hype and horror

This week voters in the Heller Poll were evenly split, which seldom happens. (Which is fine by me – I like people with strong opinions.) Fifty one percent of the 85 people taking the poll said the zika virus is more hype than horror when it comes to causing a mass outbreak here in the States. The remainder seemed to side with President Obama’s approach calling for a $1.5 billion investment to prevent any such outbreak.

Tim C. summed up the views of many when he said, “It seems like we’re most often scared about things out of proportion with the reality. Pretty sure if we checked the numbers we’d find a lot more people sickened by poor water system infrastructure. And there’s a looming threat of numbers increasing. And mosquitoes are seasonal; poor water is year round.”

That viewpoint perhaps comes from years of media hype and government hysteria about other dread diseases that were going to wipe out Western civilization – anyone know anyone with ebola?

Not I. (If you were wondering, the photo up top there is of the ebola virus.)

Maybe that tells you where I stand, at least until convinced otherwise. But then I live near a certain city that needs about $1.5 billion worth of help that the federal government is so far not offering. — andy