Remember a couple of weeks ago when much of America was freaking out about Ebola? To hear the media tell it, the government and the CDC were incompetent. Americans were in grave danger from Ebola infected ISIS terrorists. We needed quarantine everyone and seal the borders before Ebola killed us all. It was one of the top stories with non stop 24/7 coverage. Politicians even ran for election on it. You don't even hear about it on the news anymore. There are now ZERO known cases of Ebola in America. A grand total of two people were infected on U.S. soil and they're now out of the hospital. All of this was accomplished without travel bans or sealing the border. The CDC was right. The fear mongering politicians were wrong. This isn't to say the threat is over. As long as the outbreak continues in west Africa, there's a potential for the disease to spread. That's why it's important to fight the outbreak THERE. The international community needs to step up the efforts in west Africa, because the best way to prevent it here is to stop it at the source. And the next time some reporter or politician gets up and starts contradicting known science and medical experts trying to spread fear and panic, you need to remember this. They don't know what the hell they're talking about. They're not really trying solve problems. They're selling fear to further their own agendas.
That's how America works. When it happens to other countries America doesn't give a ****. When it comes to America everyone starts freaking out.
Its simple - the election is now over and its time to shift focus to the next fabricated crisis to score more political points.
There've been way more than 2 infected cases. Some dude in New York got it a couple weeks ago. The number of possible cases tripled about 1-2 weeks ago. And news gets old. New things come up. Media doesn't care about the old things.
Toxic I think it was only two people who were infected on American soil. There have been 4950 confirmed deaths so far in West Africa and the infection rates are still high.
Wait, on u.s. Soil, yes. But traveling cases coming into America is also at two. :| sorry, I misunderstood/read.
That would be ISIS. While it's not a fabricated crisis, it's an exaggerated one. And though the GOP scored a lot of points hyping Obama's "We don't have a strategy yet" comment, the reality was the GOP didn't have a strategy for dealing with ISIS either. No one did. The truth is, there are no good strategies for the US short of sending thousands of combat troops and no one wants to do that. Well, almost no one. McCain does.
There's no such thing as political campaign free period in America. One election cycle ends, and the next one starts.
And I thought the English were supposed to be gentlemen... Unless you're Scottish or Irish.. In which case may I request some haggis and/or black pudding and Guiness.