Posted on 10/22/2014 8:12:15 AM PDT by right-wing agnostic
Where is the GOP’s John Wayne when you need him? Not, apparently, in Texas.
When Ebola-infected Thomas Duncan landed in Dallas, he instantly became a deadly international health threat to U.S. citizens and America’s frontline health workers. The Liberian national became the face here for a growing pandemic that has already killed thousands of Africans and is decimating the societal fabric and governmental institutions of three countries in West Africa.
Understandably, the man’s diagnosis sparked a rash of panic throughout the country about a horrific, mysterious and incurable disease that Americans had only heard about from far away lands or in horror films.
That is, until Thomas Duncan arrived in Dallas.
Suddenly, anyone who had been to the hospital that turned Duncan away became worried. Everybody who had flown through Dallas/Fort Worth Airport became concerned. Soon, anybody flying anywhere got nervous. Distrust and fear bred further distrust and fear.
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I'm sure the Obama folks were deliriously happy that the guy wound up in Texas.
Pretty dumb of Perry to head off to Europe as Duncan say dying and so much left uncertain. But that he did. I give him a 1% chance of the nomination, basically if a meteor kills the entire rest of the candidates at once.
The picture says it all.
Dead on accurate. La Raza RINO Ricky.
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