Posted on 10/17/2014 12:00:27 PM PDT by DJ Taylor
Americans are inundated with media coverage and politicians warning them of dire threats: Ebola, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the war on Christmas.
The truth, though, is that the most-hyped threats are often not actually that threatening to Americans, while larger dangers go mostly ignored. That should tell you something about how our political system and media can distort threats, leading Americans to overreact to minor dangers while ignoring the big, challenging, divisive problems - like climate change - that we should actually be worried about.
Obsessing about possible threats is something of a beloved national pastime here in America, which is objectively one of the safest places on Earth, so we want to help you do it right. Here, then, is a highly un-scientific and incomplete ranking of threats to the United States — sorted by the current danger to Americans, worst-case danger to Americans, and how freaked out you should be.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
If you are in Colorado, dope-smoking drivers likely present a greater threat to you than Islamic nutjobs OR ebola.
Even without reading and considering the source this is propaganda designed for crowd control. My furniture is more of a threat than Ebola?
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts
1) Godless/Marxist Media.
2) Godless/Marxist Academia.
3) Power Hungry and over-reaching Government (all branches).
Bogus!! As MSN didn’t list themselves
Bingo!
The government itself tops the list since it represents the compromised immune system that prevents us from resisting all the others.
MSM, telling you what to think since the 1840’s.
It’s depressing that there are people reading this gibberish and nodding their heads. It’s absolutely crazy but people will believe it.
Obama is currently the greatest threat to America followed by Reid, Pelosi and the rest of the Marxist/fascist democrat traitor party. The GOP-e and raging RINO herd is next. Liberty is at grave risk anytime congress is in session headed up by these usurping control freaks.
In Colorado, the incidences of DUIs has gone down since mj was legalized.
How many Americans has climate change decapitated?
NASA estimates the chance of another 1859 Carrington Event at 12% per decade. Didn’t even make the list.
Meanwhile climate change is ranked #4 and gun control is #3?
No agenda here..
And 17 trillion in national debt (or is it 18 now?) doesn’t even register in the liberal mind. Neither does the prospect of Iran getting nukes, or the Jihadis taking over Pakistan and getting theirs.
And America’s military is more of a threat to world peace than ISIS.
What about “micro-aggressions” and “the Rape Culture” allegedly rampant on our campuses, which are such a dire threat that the Obama administration pushed down Title IX hearings mandates that dispense with such trivialities as due process, confronting your accuser, presenting counter evidence, and such like? The witch must burn! (ex.: http://www.si.com/college-football/2014/10/16/jameis-winston-florida-state-code-hearing)
It’s interesting to note the concerns about suicide-by-gun — concerns expressed by many of the exact same people who advocate for “assisted suicide”.
What about the War on Women? That’s gotta impact at least half the poulation, right?
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