Posted on 10/15/2014 7:57:17 PM PDT by Mariner
Americans' fear of an Ebola outbreak is being fueled by "sanity-resistant" cable TV news coverage and some members of Congress, Jon Stewart said on Tuesday's "Daily Show."
News that a Dallas nurse became infected with Ebola after treating a Liberian man stricken with the disease has sparked fears that the virus — which has killed thousands of people in West Africa — could spread to other parts of the United States.
"Clearly the news anchors are having trouble drawing the distinction between a person contracting the disease after working in close contact with an Ebola patient," Stewart said, "and the inevitability of all of us getting it now! Run!"
Later in the segment, Stewart introduced a clip of Texas Rep. Pete Sessions urging the White House to ban all U.S.-bound flights from West Africa
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“These guys on the left and their politicians in office today do not realize the entire universe has changed in the last 72 hours.
Each and every one of them will be hanging from a lamp post before another year passes.”
Face palm. The whole Ebola thing is utter nonsense trumped up to scare and entertain the cud chewing low information voter. Last year 300,000 Americans died of obesity related illness and another 443,000 died of smoking related disease. But that does not make news.
So far we have 0 Americans and 1 foreigner dead of Ebola, 2 Americans sick after taking care of foreign guy. The only way you are gonna catch it is if you go to Africa and drink toilet water, modern sanitation will prevent an epidemic. You are more likely to be disemboweled by a kangaroo than to die from Ebola. Get a grip people.
I have a morbidly obese coworker who will not shut up about Ebola as she shovels fast food in her mouth. Should be more worried about losing her foot to diabetes. Worried about health? Go for a jog and eat something not deep friend, it will make you live longer, worrying about Ebola will not.
Jonboy will be hoisted on his own petard by his ignorant audience if this disease breaks out.
This must be the new talking point after "Republican budget cuts caused this".
I guess Jon-Jon approves of ignoring all the children dying from the enterovirus.
They're in favor of the only group in America that's actually doing that at present. So, it's not the behavior with which they take issue, it's the demographic.
What is the percentage death rate after eating a burger or smoking a cigarette?
What is it after contracting Ebola?
As the water fills their lungs.
Oak.
This has nothing to do with the RATIONAL MIND. AND IT NEVER WILL.
Yes. Jon Boy will be singing a different tune if Mr. Ebola comes knocking on his front door.
Clearly isolation is one of the major tools for controlling Ebola...Why not isolate
countries where the disease is rampant?
Again
we are sending people and our military in there to get it under control...that will continue...
Just like we send Doctors and nurses into the isolation units of hospitals..but why allow anyone to go anywhere they want? We don’t want ebola stricken patients to wander about. And we don’t want Aunt Maude to go visit her sick nephew
As to innocent (healthy) people suffering because of the geographical area they are from:
What is the rational for all people to be checked at airports because there may be some among them who are potential threats (terrorists)....
Are these not somewhat equivalent situations?
This guy used to tend bar at City Gardens.
One infected at that place back then and NJ would be decimated.
Here's the thing: the common cold and influenza viruses are shaped in a way that aerosol transmission is VERY easy to do. That's why if there is a persistent flu strain, people get sick on a huge scale. In sharp contrast, the Ebola virus transmits akin to the cholera (Vibrio cholerae) and bubonic plague (Yersinia pestis) bacteriums, especially in poor sanitary conditions. Given the often very poor sanitary conditions in western Africa, small wonder why Ebola has become a major problem there.
(In fact, some scientists claim that the Black Death that ravaged Europe between 1346 and 1353 was caused by something akin to the Ebola virus. Only one problem: scientists have actually exhumed the remains of victims of the Black Death and determined just about all of them suffered from the effects of Yersinia pestis infection. Claims that this bacterium couldn't spread with European winters between 1346 and 1353 are also dismissed, given that it wasn't until after 1400--more than half a century after the worst years of the Black Death--that European winters started getting a lot colder, which did slow down the spread of this disease.)
Yes, we need to take a lot more prudent steps to stop the potential spread of Ebola in the continental USA, including banning anyone who has lived or stayed in western Africa until the person can proved they free of the disease, including a 24-day quarantine. But given the vastly better sanitary conditions and better medical care available here (including access to experimental medications being worked on by biotech companies all over the USA), I personally think the hysteria is reaching the point of conspiracy theory crazy and nobody is benefiting when the scare stories reach this level.
“the survivors will kill them”
Eh, he’s an entertainer- a ‘fool’. He works for his advertisers. He says what they want him to say: whatever makes callow youths feel like buying their products. Which is usually whatever makes them feel good about themselves.
This lie made them feel like they are ‘smarter’. Kids love that.
The fact that 2 healthcare workers now have Ebola even though they were in a highly sterilized hospital environment argues against this quote
” Given the often very poor sanitary conditions in western Africa, small wonder why Ebola has become a major problem there.”
IBTZ
Keep in mind “The Won” said it would never be in the United States.
Keep in mind the CDC has no real clue how these nurses got infected.
If all I get from the fed is just BS then I have a complete right to not trust a damn thing they say about this disease.
Is ebola at all like the common cold or influenza? Well, they are all viruses.
Is ebola like Plague or Cholera? Well, Plague and Cholera are bacteriums.
But it appears to me that your conclusion is that the Ebola Virus will tend to behave like the bacteriums and not like the viruses.
I guess we'll see.
There is no Ebola epidemic, it is just a slow news cycle. Because ISIS, Ukraine, the election, and activist judges destroying marriage are apparently too boring for our jaded pallet. We need to be entertained by a fake end times plague.
Yeah zot me before I knock some sense into you.
And, apparently, Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
And ever4yone there is "tuned in" and has a bachelors degree or better from a good school.
Something is very wrong with the BS story about the difficulty of Ebola transmission and the ability of a civil population to fight it.
When 70% of the infected are dying, don't stand in front of that train.
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