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Ebola Fighters are TIME's choice for Person of the Year 2014
Time ^ | December 10, 2014 | Nancy Gibbs

Posted on 12/10/2014 7:30:01 AM PST by C19fan

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, says the proverb, but rather the hero’s heart.

Maybe this is true in any battle; it is surely true of a war that is waged with bleach and a prayer.

For decades, Ebola haunted rural African villages like some mythic monster that every few years rose to demand a human sacrifice and then returned to its cave. It reached the West only in nightmare form, a Hollywood horror that makes eyes bleed and organs dissolve and doctors despair because they have no cure.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2014review; ebola; manoftheyear; time
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To: C19fan
Time Magazine will regret this.

While I applaud them for selecting the Ebola fighters, do they not realize that A CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY DOCTOR is the embodiment of the Ebola fighters?

Dr. Kent Brantly.

21 posted on 12/10/2014 8:38:16 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: C19fan

Better choice than the Ferguson mob.


22 posted on 12/10/2014 8:40:23 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

23 posted on 12/10/2014 8:52:15 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: GOPJ

Time chose well. Those on the front lines deserve the accolade.


24 posted on 12/10/2014 8:52:58 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Apparently. There are alternate covers, and Dr. Brantly is one of them.


25 posted on 12/10/2014 9:21:02 AM PST by Jedidah
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To: C19fan
The editors of Time are obviously racists, or they would have picked Michelle Obama for her valiant efforts to make kids in public schools eat healthy lunches.

/s

26 posted on 12/10/2014 9:51:31 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: C19fan

These threads have sure come a long way since the first few months, it is a nice advancement.


27 posted on 12/10/2014 12:20:16 PM PST by ansel12
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


28 posted on 12/10/2014 9:52:45 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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