Posted on 10/14/2014 2:08:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
NEW YORK — No holiday screams pop culture controversy quite like Halloween.
So what's the costume flap of the year? It might just be Ebola, as in Ebola zombies, bloody Ebola patients and faux protective gear.
Twitter and other social media were abuzz leading into the holiday with talk of hazmat suits and respirators. Too soon? How about just no, said Philadelphia physician's assistant Maria McKenna.
One of her own, a Dallas nurse who at 26 is exactly her age, was diagnosed with the virus in the United States after she had helped care for a Liberian man who died at her hospital.
The idea of riffing on the crisis for Halloween "definitely rubs me the wrong way," said McKenna, who works with post-surgical patients at a hospital.
"Normally I think that irony and humor is funny, but this thing with the costumes, is it really that funny? I mean, Ebola's not even under control yet," she said Monday by telephone.
Like it or not, some costume sellers have leftover yellow jumpsuits, rubber gloves and masks from the "Breaking Bad" craze last Halloween. Some sellers predict Halloweeners will repurpose those for takes on Ebola or make their own getups.
Halloween, falling on a Friday, is sure to be a big season for many costume sellers, including Ricky's NYC.
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This product image released by Brands On Sale, Inc. shows a hazmat costume with a respirator. No holiday screams pop culture controversy quite like Halloween. So what's the costume flap of the year? It might just be Ebola, as in Ebola zombies and faux gear to ward off the deadly strain of virus.
Liberals are the most uptight people.
Wonder how that would go over at an Obama event.
This equates EBOLA with OBAMA and DEMOCRATS just before an election, therefore it is most certainly racist/Homophobic/yada/yada...
Exactly opposite of what their label implies..........
well ya know that theres going to be some that do dress as Ebola Man or a nurse/doctor ...
for some its light hearted fun..just how Obama and Friedan has set them up to believe..
Ebola hazmat suit? Edgy, but not over the line.
Ebola corpse/zombie? Way, way, too far.
My Halloween costume this year?
An Ebola victim wearing an Obama mask.
By halloween the biohazard suits may be common anyway.
I was going to do a cheesy Al Bundy-type bowling outfit with a mouse, keypad, modem, etc. all strapped to me.
You know, an eBowler.
It is totally going to happen. And it should. My granddaughter and her friend are both going for Miranda Sings. Google it. Also disturbing but that’s the point.
I would like to go to a democrat fundraiser costume party with a mask of the red death.
Ding ding! What do we have for him, Johnny?
Jackie Gleason as 'The Man from Space 1955' from the Honeymooners
That would be a Poe thing to do...........
They may be MANDATORY!..........
I had never heard of Miranda Sings til now. Thanks for the update. The actress is talented, and had created this open ended, offbeat, lovably fallible character, performed and portrayed by her self. Clever girl!
Gotta disagree with the article. One of the major points for Christians of All Saints Day and All Saints Evening is that we are victors over death and no longer afraid of things that go bump in the night. “O Death, where is your victory? O Grave, where is your sting?”
As Mark Twain once quipped:
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die................
So tell me, O Chef of De Futcha, can it core a apple?
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