Ebola in the Big Apple??? Oops! No Need to Panic!

I mean, we’re no longer talking about fly over so it must be serious: Ebola in New York? Specifically, Ebowling in New York. The latest Ebola patient is a doc recently returned from his Doctors Without Borders stint in West Africa. He wisely called for a hazmat team to take him to the hospital Thursday morning, butt oddly he went bowling in Brooklyn the night before (via subway). I admire the doc’s good deeds butt maybe our “Doctors Without Borders” should be “Doctors WITH Borders” for their first 21 days back home.

So have we learned here? Well, if you’ve recently returned from treating Ebola in Liberia, maybe quarantining yourself for awhile is a good idea. And if you’re feeling a little queasy and slightly feverish - but still absolutely positively have to get your bowling fix – maybe eBowling would be a better choice.

That way you won’t have to call in the hazmat team to fumigate your bowling shoes.

And speaking of “oops” and cleaning up messes – can you believe Lady M stepped in it again? Which is to say, one of our little people let her down when loading TOTUS. That’s right, one of our soon-to-be ex-staff members confused Senator Mark Udall’s background (born in Arizona) with his Republican opponent Cory Gardner’s (fifth generation Coloradan). No biggie though:

There were only “around” 1,500 in attendance to hear Lady M “call her husband's job performance "phenomenal" at a rally Thursday in Denver on behalf of Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Udall.”

(hee hee) Even the Denver Post had to put quotes around “facts” in case anyone was paying attention to the Liberal Lies.

Anyway, in what can only be considered as a dog whistle, I note that Lady M has chosen a black and white motif for her final round of whistle stop campaign stops:

The situation in NYC actually worries me a little bit less than the situation in Dallas (and I say that as a New Yorker). Yes, NYC has much higher population density, and a much more developed public transportation system. BUT, the window for infection was much smaller in Dr. Spencer’s case than it was for Duncan. Spencer first started showing symptoms yesterday, and was transported to the hospital immediately, by people in biohazard gear. By contrast, Duncan was sent home the first time he went to the hospital (already symptomatic), and when he was brought back to the hospital, he was brought back in a regular ambulance, without any extra precautions, and was placed with other patients for several hours (again, without any extra precautions).

You would think this guy would of known better being a doctor who actually treated Ebola patients.

Doctors are permitted a choice of oaths. Some take the Hippocrates oath. Some take the Mengele oath. The ebowler obviously took the latter.

Which is why I smell a rat. We've been given no time frame: For instance, WHEN did he get back from Liberia (or whichever plague-infested state he came from)?; or WHERE had he been moving around before going out on Wednesday evening?; or had he self-quarantined?; or what is happening to/with his family and friends? etc, etc.

We get one trickle of information, in a society that tries carefully to control the flow of information, which repeats the same pathetically few random "facts" -- subway, bowling, 103, taxi, doctor....

For me, this oddness could be taken several different ways:

1) It is as is being said. With gov't news being doled out (in the characteristically clumsy "transparent" fashion we've become accustomed to)

2) It's a put-up job--by gov't. He doesn't actually have ebola... maybe some other (self-inflicted) less-virulent thing. Purpose of which might be to demonstrate how much exposure can be tolerated before the virus is transmitted (a demonstration under false pretenses, obviously--just in case they're wrong)

3) It's a put-up job by people who'd like the big apple to melt down in a huge episode of paranoia. Or perhaps by people who'd like to see the borders closed faster.

For the moment, I hold with #1 per Occam's Razor.

If anyone has information that speaks to the things I said we didn't know, please feel free to correct. But I'd very much like to know if anyone else is bothered by the same inconsistencies.

Basically, it just seems strange to me. But I'm willing to be enlightened. fh

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