E-Bola

No, but we don't continually defend the worst player in the league, nor say that people who criticize the worst player in the league are nothing more than haters of the sport.

 

No, that's Benghazi. Ebola is Obama's Watergate.

 

I always did know how to exasperate the instructor.

 

Visualized: How Ebola compares to other infectious diseases

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2014/oct/15/visualised-how-ebola-compares-to-other-infectious-diseases

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/16/us-health-ebola-un-idUSKCN0I51XM20141016

"U.N.'s $1 billion Ebola fund gets just $100,000 so far"

$365m pledged, $100,000 actually received so far. From Columbia.

Priorities.

 

In before the lock. Political pissing matches are so much fun.

 

Dude at Yale tested negative.

And here's the president: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152888780699238&set=vb.63811549237&type=2&theater

 

Whenever you hear someone new testing positive for Ebola, start the clock another 21 days. When that's up with no new cases, we'll be all clear. Hopefully by then, we'll be smart enough to check all incoming passports for Ebolaland stamps.

 

So for those of us scoring at home, there's been one person who traveled to the US with Ebola and two subsequent cases currently under treatment. I will bet that the number of Ebola cases, let alone deaths in the US in this entire episode does not reach the roughly 60 to 70 persons who will die from gunshot wounds this weekend.

 

OK. This is dumber than the flu comparisons.

The vast majority of folks who get shot, are shot by someone they know.

You can catch Ebola from a complete stranger, that you happened to come in contact with.

Do you not understand why this worries folks in a way that getting shot does not?

 

Gee, tell the 132 people on Frontier Airlines Flight 1143 it's no big deal- who are now under quarantine, and have had their lives thrown into tumult for at least the next three weeks.

 

BTW, can someone explain why the healthcare workers in Dallas are under travel restrictions, but the healthcare workers in Bethesda won't be?