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GOP candidates have pounded the big red panic button. What if they look like Chicken Little come Election Day?
OCTOBER 23, 2014
Prescient article from two weeks ago......
http://theweek.com/article/index/270373/%3Cimg%20src=%22http:/media.theweek.com/img/generic/GallupEbola2.png%22%20alt=%22%22%3E
"But here's the thing about pounding the big red panic button: What if nothing happens?
Duncan died in the U.S., but he's the only one so far. His fiancée and everyone who came in contact with him before he was hospitalized have been declared Ebola-free. The first nurse he infected, Pham, was just upgraded to good condition from fair, and Vinson's mother says her daughter is already testing negative for the virus. Freelance NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, who contracted the virus in Liberia, was released from Nebraska Medical Center on Wednesday, making him the fifth person who has recovered after being treated in the U.S.
The CDC has issued new advisory guidelines for U.S. hospitals it can't force them to adopt the new safeguards and the Department of Homeland Security has beefed up West African passenger screening, directing all passengers from affected areas to pass through five U.S. airports. All visitors from the affected nations will be monitored for 21 days. Hospitals will be better prepared for the next Ebola patient, assuming there is one.
Even the seriously dire outbreak in West Africa could have numbered days. On Wednesday, Elhadj As Sy, secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, predicted that the Ebola pandemic could be contained in four to six months.
There's always the slim possibility that the experts are wrong, or some accident of history or biology allows Ebola to enter the U.S. and spread like wildfire. If it does that before the Nov. 4 election, Republicans will look pretty prescient. If nothing new happens in the U.S. in the next two weeks, they'll look mildly delirious, or at least prone to hysteria. Even some prominent Republicans are finding it politically (and practically) expedient to distance themselves from the Ebola fearmongering, including ebola Governor Christie."
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This was an analysis before nurse Kaci Hickox blew the lid off the media and GOP all-in on fear mongering....."will voters make those that cried wolf" pay is still the same question as it was two weeks ago.
Qutzupalotl
(14,331 posts)Fear followed by relief creates a sense of security. See my post on this topic:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002340
randys1
(16,286 posts)ALL opposition to Obama "from the right" is based ONLY in racism and bigotry and a funny sounding name
ALL
ALL
"from the right" that is an important part of my line
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)I can only hope that this outbreak highlights the need for GLOBAL healthcare.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)have thought so. There are two Ebola threads following this one.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)So all in all, looks like the hair on fire ebola crowd has settled down.
I plan on using this next thing if they pop up again.
Want to hear a joke about ebola? You won't get it.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)Too bad "Benghazi" doesn't have an "O" in it, too.
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underpants
(182,884 posts)It doesn't matter what the newest hype is the people who believe the voices in their cars immediately start posting on Facebook and elsewhere. Trust me I see it all the time mostly from people I went to high school with but some others too.
Just today I happened by Glenn Beck's radio show and he said that some official predicted that there would be 1,300 (I think that was the number) Ebola cases in the US by the end of the year. That means via him alone about 13,000,000 people (subscribers to The Blaze) will have that as a talking point by the time he has it on TV tonight. If in January that hasn't been the case they will convince themselves that it is just not being reported.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)MineralMan
(146,331 posts)here in Minnesota. It's a youngish woman's voice, blaming Governor Dayton for her concern about Ebola. She doesn't trust Governor Dayton, she says, to handle an Ebola emergency. It's paid for by some generic GOP PAC. It's a last-gasp effort in a losing campaign by the Republican opponent.
It's almost funny to see their desperation in the day before the election.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)make it appear hard because the guilt free authoritarian, political pandering ebola governors use fear without remorse, they are terrorists using a slightly different definition, just a matter of degree.