Feds Face Growing Ebola Fears

Federal health officials are facing a surge in reports of possible Ebola cases from hospitals and health departments, none of which have been confirmed but which highlight a moment of growing domestic concern about an outbreak that has claimed over 800 lives in Africa. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told TIME on Tuesday that it’s received several dozen calls from states and hospitals about people who are ill after traveling in Africa. “We’ve triaged those calls and about half-dozen or so resulted in specimen coming to CDC for testing and all have been negative for Ebola,” CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said, adding that the agency is expecting still more calls to come in.

Seems like the press is starting to reverse course.

Now, according to the media mind you, a perfectly rational and reasonable medical response like scrutinizing patients recently arrived from Africa and suffering from some suggestive symptoms, is “fear”. Not precaution, not due diligence, not rational concerns, but “fear”. Those words aren’t chosen at random, they’re specifically written with a broader purpose in mind, often under the direct guidance of supervising editors.

That entire story is written with the underlying intent to imply “all is well, people are just jittery”.

A good rough rule of thumb is that when the media is running around screaming bloody murder you can be safely reassured that life is going on as normal and there’s nothing to be worried about. Fake drama and fairytale tragedies are both lucrative and palliative (what better way to distract from real problems?). When the drama-mongers in the press start clamming up and trying to convince you that everything’s peachy and only lunatics think otherwise, well that’s when you need to be worried.

Yellow journalism isn’t well-advised with REAL threats, nor is fear-mongering profitable or even allowed by the powers that be during real emergencies. Hemorrhagic fevers and stories about them are nifty little click-generators when said diseases are safely ensconced on another, admittedly backwards, continent. One would expect that the tone and nature of news reporting would be significantly less sensational and far more “professional” and understated with a disease that posed an actual threat to public safety in our nation.

Now we’ve got one of the biggest media corporations in the country telling us that if someone recently arrived from Africa gets sick and ends up in an emergency room with an unknown disease, it’s just ignorant fear that drives paranoid medicos to investigate the ebola angle. The spin-meisters over at Time-Warner corp are happy to reassure us that “People Who Know Better (tm)” are sick and tired of pesky little fear-driven paranoiacs pestering the sublimely unconcerned CDC about this “Non-Issue(tm)”.

Well put.

Jour-no-lists create fake scares all the time and this is an actual, real threat to our nation and they are covering it up and minimizing it.

Why?

Because Americans, if they knew what was going on, would be screaming bloody murder for our borders to be secure and 3rd worlds not allowed to enter our country.

Dems don’t want that.

So they lie.

Plus, they are all about ‘humans are a plague on the planet.’ Wouldn’t be surprised if part of the global warming combat plan is to ‘thin the herd’ of humans by a few billion.

Seriously.

If they believe (and they say they do) humans are going to destroy the planet due to overpopulation, wouldn’t they be morally justified in killing 90% of the population to save the rest? Follow the sick logic and see where it gets you.

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