Jihadi boyz fly from Pakistan to Ebolaville. They roll around with some ebola stricken guys-n-gals and jump on the first flights to major US cities. Not as dramatic as a suicide vest, but much more deadly.
Most ebola test will be negative for the first few attempts until the victim is near the “explosion” phase.
Seems like the press is starting to reverse course.
Now, according to the media mind you, a perfectly rational and reasonable medical response like scrutinizing patients recently arrived from Africa and suffering from some suggestive symptoms, is “fear”. Not precaution, not due diligence, not rational concerns, but “fear”. Those words aren’t chosen at random, they’re specifically written with a broader purpose in mind, often under the direct guidance of supervising editors.
That entire story is written with the underlying intent to imply “all is well, people are just jittery”.
A good rough rule of thumb is that when the media is running around screaming bloody murder you can be safely reassured that life is going on as normal and there’s nothing to be worried about. Fake drama and fairytale tragedies are both lucrative and palliative (what better way to distract from real problems?). When the drama-mongers in the press start clamming up and trying to convince you that everything’s peachy and only lunatics think otherwise, well that’s when you need to be worried.
Yellow journalism isn’t well-advised with REAL threats, nor is fear-mongering profitable or even allowed by the powers that be during real emergencies. Hemorrhagic fevers and stories about them are nifty little click-generators when said diseases are safely ensconced on another, admittedly backwards, continent. One would expect that the tone and nature of news reporting would be significantly less sensational and far more “professional” and understated with a disease that posed an actual threat to public safety in our nation.
Now we’ve got one of the biggest media corporations in the country telling us that if someone recently arrived from Africa gets sick and ends up in an emergency room with an unknown disease, it’s just ignorant fear that drives paranoid medicos to investigate the ebola angle. The spin-meisters over at Time-Warner corp are happy to reassure us that “People Who Know Better (tm)” are sick and tired of pesky little fear-driven paranoiacs pestering the sublimely unconcerned CDC about this “Non-Issue(tm)”.
why did the dumb axes bring it to our shores on purpose
Post/thread…life/health BUMP!