Posted on 10/05/2014 7:42:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The outbreak of Ebola that has become a humanitarian crisis in West Africa finally reached the U.S. last week when a patient in Dallas, Texas was diagnosed with the virus. Ebola is not an airborne disease and is only transmitted through close contact with bodily fluids like saliva, feces and urine, but that hasn’t stopped a minor panic from setting in now that it has reached American shores. Global health experts are concerned that now, in the U.S., stigmatization of people from the three most affected countries in the region — Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia — could follow.
“On a large scale, we’re seeing a stigmatization of the three countries,” Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council of Foreign Relations, told Newsweek. “There’s all sort of talk, whether it’s the shipping industry, the airline industry or neighbor nations, of ceasing shipments to, refusing flights to and from these countries.” But essentially this lets the disease fester inside already-affected countries, as it restricts health care workers’ access to the sick and inhibit the process of containing the disease.
On Friday, Washington’s Howard University Hospital said they had admitted a possible Ebola patient “in an abundance of caution.”(continued)
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Well, she does work for Newsweak.
Wait. What? Are they drawing a link between homosexuality and Ebola?
Ebola: The second disease with a political constituency.
Failure to implement proven public health methods (like quarantine) because doing so would offend and outrage people.
Just like with the early 80s bath houses.
she's also another person (born somewhere else) that enjoys ripping American and Americans
Yep. It’s an epidemic whose containment was immediately inhibited due to politicization by the left.
its a Pandemic ... according to the regime..
I know our public education system has produced several generations of complete and utter imbeciles, but I think even the most intellectually Bidenesque citizen knows there's a difference between contracting a disease from being near someones sneeze as opposed to contracting a disease from engaging in anal sex.
I could be wrong about that.
I believe ebola can be caught through anal sex.
The earth has been cooling for 18 yrs.....
In the not-too-distant future Penn State will have a Sandusky statue next to Paterno’s in a a tribute to a visionary who understood white privilege can only be undone by democratizing exposure to deadly diseases. Pederasty, after all, is part of the heritage of world history.
Isn’t there already a statue of Obama?
“U.S. Public Response to Ebola Could Echo Early Days of AIDS Epidemic”
So we’re going to refuse to shutdown gay bathhouses and spend lots of time blaming Ronald Reagan for not curing Ebola?
My brain must have gone to the store for cigarettes or something. I’m not understanding this thread at all.
This has the potential for a seriously big quilt.
P.C. inc. will once again be required by inconvenient reality ....to spin and try to adapt....
:)
When the media was trying to convince us that AIDs was going to kill us all, we were all equally at risk, and that even our married grandparents were going to get it?
“On a large scale, we’re seeing a stigmatization of the three countries,”
Interesting choice of words.
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