and if she did have Ebola I am sure Jeffery would also write a snarky article about it.
What happens to highly complex systems that try to manage or pre-determine every risk and outcome?
They collapse.
The untold story...
"During the response," the statement said, "the individual allegedly indicated that she had recently visited western Africa."TJ uses the word "allegedly" to dismiss the statement. Of course the spokesperson had to use that word! You don't seriously expect a gubermint minion to issue a bald statement of fact, do you?
But given a purported [see, I did it too] statement from the vomiter herself, all of the precautions that followed were correct. What TJ should really be railing against is that we are STILL not prepared for the real thing.
Just think what would have happened if she had vomited near the Pentagon, AND broke a CFL bulb at the same time?
http://vomit.poyt.com/thesaurus.htm
The Vomit Thesaurus
There are so many different terms to describe the act of throwing up. Below is our rapidly growing list of slang forms of the word “vomit”:
Acid Chowder
An offering to the porcelain God(dess)
Arguing with the worms
Barf
Barffalo Bill
Barking at the ants
Belch the Bile By-product
The Big Spit
Bile Geyser
Blow a hole in the bowl
Blow Chunks
Blowing Groceries
Buick
Calling Earl
Calling Huey on the big white telephone
The Call of the Walrus
Calling the Buffalos
Chorkle
Chow shower
Chuck a Veggie
Chumming
Chunder
Chunk eruption
Cleaning the pipes
Colon Explosion in Reverse
Delivering Street Pizza
Disembarking dinner
Doing the Hoakey Croaky
Downloading dinner
Driving the Porcelain Bus
Esophogeal Eruption
Evacuate all you ate
Feeding the fish
Fertilize the bushes
Five finger spray
Flash the hash
Gale Force Burp
Gastro Geyser
Going for the 2nd chew
Go the Nostril Sauce
Goulash gush
Gurping
Gut Soup
Having an up and under
Having a Spit
Heave
Honk
Hoark
Hurl
Hwark
Involuntary personal protein spill
Jazz up the carpet
Jettisoning the chunky cargo
Laughing at the ground
Launching lunch
Leggo my Eggo
Liquid burp
Liquid laugh
Liquid scream
Look for aardvarks
Lose your load
Make a map
Making your Big Toes go flat
Mouth crying
My cousin Ralph
Oral diahorrea
Salad shooter
Sing a rainbow
Smucking your yuck
Spew
Spitting the furry lifesaver
Spray the weeds
Parking a tiger
Parking your groceries
Pavement pizza
Puke
Ralph
Reverse Defication
Reverse Diarrhea
Reverse Peristalsis
Reviewing your lunch
Review the menu
Ride the regurgitron
Rocket Launching
Rooping
Round-trip meal ticket
Selling a Buick
Shout at Your Shoes
Sicky
Singing New York
Snot the hotdog
Spill your Breakkie
Spraying a jet
Spray Puree
Taking the shortcut out
Talking on the big white telephone
Technicolour Yawn
3-D Burp
Throwing it into reverse
Throwing your cookies
Throw the Brown Cow
Toss the Slack-Mac’s
Tossing your cookies
Turn on the tap
Ughp
Uneat
Unswallowing
Upchuck
Up and Out
Vom
Vomit
Vommie
Vurp = a burp with a little vomit
Woof your Cookies
Worshipping the Porcelain God
Yacking
Yark
Yawn a big bright chunky rainbow
Yelling at the ants
Yodelling
I like to call it “calling Ralph on the big white telephone about buying a Buick.”
I found this to be incoherent.
If the government does too little, complaints.
If they overreact, complaints.
No medical system would do real well the first time they deal with something like Ebola. Some are hysterical. Some are totally dismissive. Confusing times.
Did the poor woman catch a glimpse of Obama through a White House window? I suffer a similar reaction anytime I see his ugly face on TV.
“Allegedly indicated?”
That means nobody actually indicated, but someone from law enforcement later alleged that they might have indicated, in order to cover their behinds.
My brother has CVS (chronic vomiting syndrome), caused by diabetic nerve damage. He is prolific in his projectile vomiting abilities, but has a barf bag with him most of the time. He will be puking for the rest of his life.