That's what worries me. (Us?)
Maybe it is time to get some local African advice?
Posted on 10/16/2014 8:33:32 AM PDT by Phillyred
IT'S GOING VIRAL.
Ebola? No . . . at least not here in the United States, where the deadly virus has not spread among the general population. Although Ebola has been - and remains - a major, lethal public-health crisis in West Africa, cases in the U.S. have been limited to the death of a man who contracted the illness in Liberia before returning to Dallas, and now the infection of two hospital workers who treated him.
What is going viral, however, is fear itself - what Franklin Roosevelt might have called "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror." Panic over a potential - yet still unrealized, and highly unlikely - pandemic helped cause a brief, death-defying drop in the Dow Jones industrial average yesterday and forced President Obama to cancel a campaign trip to meet with his Cabinet over what has become a political crisis, if not yet a public-health crisis.
"I want people to understand that the dangers of you contracting Ebola, the dangers of a serious outbreak in this country, are extraordinary low, but we are taking this very seriously at the highest levels of government," said Obama, walking a political high-wire. The president's mission - yesterday, and in the days to come - will be to convince wary Americans that the government is on top of Ebola, while squelching further panic; he stressed yesterday that he's shaken hands with and hugged doctors and nurses who treated patients with the virus.
But what do you need to know? Here's a Daily News primer:
Q: How crazy is the Ebola panic getting?
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
My Ebola has a first name
It’s B A R R Y!
My Ebola has a second name
But I’m too sick to try..
I regurgitate it every day
And if you ask me why I’ll say!!!!
That Barry-O sure has a way with “B O L O G N A”
The true lesson of the ebola “crisis” in the United States is we’re a nation of easy-to-manipulate, fearful weaklings.
The Treason party and the RINOs are calling this a national crisis because The One had to cancel a fundraiser. B-but He is s-so h-handsome we can h-hardly s-s-speak!!
The media wants us to shut up and be good sheep. Sorry,my sheep days are over.
Ok, NOW I’m going to start getting worried.
The calls for keeping calm are going to get very strident soon.
The concern over ebola in the United States is a manifestation of the overwhelming lack of trust in our government and our awareness of its inherent incompetency.
We know our government - especially those that identify as liberal or democrat - are either unwilling or incapable of handling this. They were not hired on merit and elevate political correctness far above common sense.
In this case,fear of incompetent democrats works very nicely in our favor.
Ebola has gone “viral” I get it nyuk nyuck. How long before we see Ebola tee- shirts, posters, bumper stickers, Ebolamania! Ebola playset for the kids, Ebola costumes for Halloween, Ebola candy, Ebola action figures, Ebola games “I gave you my Ebola! You lose!”
Awareness is necessary.
Idiots trying to amp up paranoia after watching ebola news stories for hours on end, talking about mutating viruses and “it’s going airborne” while having no idea what that means are the ones that will cause a panic.
Humans react to epidemic disease the way the react to drowning. It's not rational and for good reason.
Through human history the survivors are the people who panicked at epidemic and undertook quarantine. Either by moving themselves or isolating the sick. Or both.
And the left thinks they can stand in front of that train. I'll say it again:
Silly bastards.
I mean, it's our butts on the line, after all.
That’s true. But on the other hand, people downplaying the reality of the disease and how it works will cause a lot of needless deaths of good people.
True that. In this country we perpetuate and celebrate weakness, but denigrate strength.
There are two places on the planet fighting this disease, albeit at different scales, so far. Africa. And the United States. Now, why is that, since the disease has been known, FOR 38 STINKING YEARS. There is a cause and effect for everything. Think about it.
That's what worries me. (Us?)
Maybe it is time to get some local African advice?
Half the nation is composed of “easy-to-manipulate, fearful weaklings”. The rest of us are outraged at the incompetence of the Administration of our Federal government.
I don’t see any “panic”. I see and hear a lot of concern and discussion which is perfectly appropriate. Panic is manifest when there’s hysteria and irrational decision making - unfortunately only characteristic of the current bureaucratic a** covering and policymaker ineptitude...
If Paltrow thinks Barry is handsome, she’d rip my clothes off before I could get in the front door.
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