[AppyPappy]

“The Obama administration is urging federal employees to stay home during the summit “

Say what??????

[DCBryan1]

Ebola, sweeping rapidly through DC, might be the best thing to happen to DC in a while. I can’t think of a better place for Ebola (other than the Gaza strip). Lets just hope it stops and burns out inside the beltway.

[sten]

yea... this ain’t good

[ctdonath2]

Actual statement: "Employees are encouraged to monitor local news media for announcements on street closures for vehicular and pedestrian traffic, closures or disruptions to public transportation, building closures, or any possible changes to the Washington, DC, area Federal Government operating status."

[FourtySeven]

I think I’m gonna stock up on some Airborne for next week and eat it like candy while driving home on 495 next week.

And thanks to all on this thread wishing “everyone” in the DC area fall victim to this disease. Real “consideration” there. < /sarc >

[Chgogal]

FYI

1st paragraph - has to do with Patrick Sawyer who almost made it back home to the US last week. He collapsed at Lagos airport and died shortly thereafter from Ebola. He was a naturalized American citizen living in Minnesota.

[bgill]

The Ebola death last week of Patrick Sawyer, a naturalized American citizen who was working for the government of his native Liberia raised worldwide fear as he was able to travel by passenger plane from Liberia to Nigeria with a layover in Togo on his way to an international conference without his condition being noted until he became seriously ill on approach to Lagos.

For a doctor well versed in the symptoms of ebola, he wasn't very smart. Or was he? Flights from Nigeria to Lagos take 2 1/2 hours. At the end of the flight, he was so sick he collapsed at the airport. You can NOT tell me he didn't know he was infected when he boarded the flight. Was he in severe denial and that stupid or was he intentionally wanting to spread it?

[dfwgator]

Can they make the closure permanent?

[PennsylvaniaMom]

The obvious question of the hour, WHY NOT CANCEL?

Convenient that the President and Congress are “out” of town...yet the State Dept Spokesperson, Jen Psaki, said “traffic” concerns were the “reason” the government “may” close up for the duration of the Summit.

Again, why not cancel? Is it in any way wise to have FLOTUS interact there? And possibly become infected, and I don’t want to think of those reprocussions.

This whole event has a bad, 1970s ABC Movie Of The Week feel to it.

[novemberslady]

Guess this will be the the huge emergency that will allow elections to be stalled and allow marshall law to put in place.

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[Smokin' Joe]

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