You should not panic over the first reported case of Ebola in the United States, specifically right here in Texas (albeit in Dallas, but that’s still Texas.)

State health officials have reportedly enacted quarantine procedures for members of the person’s family. This could lead to our other favorite subject for freak-outs, some sort of shadowy government takeover under the guise of a communicable disease quarantine, or total government incompetence, or some inexplicable combination of the two. I did a Storify to explain why you shouldn’t worry about that, either.