and if it does end up infecting that many people by mid-December (which it's looking like it will seeing as there's really nothing major going on that could curb it). I was thinking more along the lines of American slavery in the South rather than including people that were rounded up in Africa and forced into slavery and the global turning a blind eye to it. Even during US Southern slavery there were some first world countries openly opposed to it, whereas with this Ebola crisis there's been no first world country even bothering to mention it. Hell, after the Revolutionary War northern states started to become more opposed to it, so that's a division even within the same country. And so opposed that a blind eye was turned to Southern slavery and escaped slaves were welcomed in the Northern states as free people as well as many many people actually helping these slaves to escape and helping them into new free lives once they reached the North.
I also considered the timeline - Southern slavery lasted many decades, whereas this Ebola crisis has only been in a matter of months. Had Southern slavery resulted in that many deaths from abuse during a period of a few months rather than many decades would the number of deaths even come close or would slavery have been largely ignored for so long? I think that if Southern slavery resulted in that many deaths in a few months it would have been seen as significantly more heinous and an uproar globally to end it.
Considered under those terms, yeah, I think the total lack of any concern globally to the Ebola crisis in West Africa (until very recently, which is only because of Ebola cropping up in first world countries) is warranted as possibly worse than Southern slavery regarding the number of deaths. Under a different set of terms maybe not.
Some of the global reaction is even worse than turning a blind eye, like Belize not allowing that cruise ship to dock even though the person on the ship that caused them to make that decision had only two days left of 21 days of being virus free and had no symptoms during any of that time. I think Mexico also wouldn't allow the ship to dock. Other countries have entirely shut their borders in response to the crisis and without offering any aid. And there's also Spain for killing that infected nurse's dog for no damn reason whatsoever. Globally, the slave trade was made internationally illegal fairly early on in US Southern slavery. I don't recall any country's governments reacting in any similar way toward US Southern slavery as some countries are currently reacting to the Ebola crisis in West Africa.