Ebola Fighters are TIME's choice for Person of the Year 2014

Time ^ | December 10, 2014 | Nancy Gibbs

[C19fan]

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, says the proverb, but rather the hero’s heart.

Maybe this is true in any battle; it is surely true of a war that is waged with bleach and a prayer.

For decades, Ebola haunted rural African villages like some mythic monster that every few years rose to demand a human sacrifice and then returned to its cave. It reached the West only in nightmare form, a Hollywood horror that makes eyes bleed and organs dissolve and doctors despair because they have no cure.

[C19fan]

Bravo to Time magazine. There were rumors about loser Ferguson/Garner protesters/looters would be selected.

[AU72]

Dentist offices across the Nation eagerly await the issue.

[Biggirl]

They are the unsung heros in an effort to battle back a major disease.

[Red Badger]

John 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

[Red Badger]

LOL!............in six months.................

[C19fan]

I think about the the tens of thousands of care takers who perished, especially monks and nuns, who attempted to take care of plague victims during the Black Death of the 14th century. Doctors Without Borders and others are today’s versions of those people.

[oblomov]

That will actually be an article worth reading, even if it is Time Magazine.

[BitWielder1]

Yes, the ones on the front lines but not the ones who flew on planes and ran around in the US without taking the necessary precautions.

[GOPJ]

The rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and women are willing to stand and fight. For tireless acts of courage and mercy, for buying the world time to boost its defenses, for risking, for persisting, for sacrificing and saving, the Ebola fighters are TIME’s 2014 Person of the Year.

Good choice...

[Biggirl]

You got it and this is why the USA beat back the ebola disease.

[GOPJ]

Time did us proud.

Hard to believe a MSM outfit did NOT use this opportunity to give us the finger. Thanks ‘Time’...

[null and void]

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[null and void]

Yes, the ones on the front lines but not the ones who flew on planes and ran around in the US without taking the necessary precautions.

Yeah. Ebola Nurse Kaci Hickox is on my permanent sh!t list.

[C19fan]

Of course the nut jobs are out giving Time a hard time for not choosing Ferguson/Garner looters:

http://twitchy.com/2014/12/10/anger-at-time-for-not-choosing-ferguson-protesters-as-poty/

[a fool in paradise]

Where do I go to claim my prize?

[molson209]

but what the H E 2 sticks are Ebola Fighters ?

[PROCON]

[wtd]

Simultaneously, diluting the honor...

• M-tvU Names Kaci Hickox & John Oliver 'Woman and Man of the Year'

  "A volunteer nurse with Doctors Without Borders, Hickox fought the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone and battled misinformation by challenging a mandatory quarantine order upon her return to the United States."

[Sooth2222]

Person of the Year (called Man of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the United States news magazine Time that features and profiles a person, group, idea or object that "for better or for worse...has done the most to influence the events of the year".

TIME Unveils Finalists for 2014 Person of the Year

Given their finalists, this was a non-controversial and politically correct choice.

But if Time was still a serious news organization, how about Putin? This might be analogous to choosing finalists including Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini and the doctors and nurses fighting the influenza epidemic of 1938. And picking the influenza fighters. There are little doubt that third-world epidemic disease is significant, but is it that significant to the world at large?

[Nevadan]

re: Yeah. Ebola Nurse Kaci Hickox is on my permanent sh!t list.

It is a safe bet that this narcissistic attention whore who was willing to expose multitudes to the disease will receive supreme accolades in the Time article.