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I don’t get the vitriol at the nurse that so many had, especially Bill Maher, as if she was an attention grabber. You could see that even the scaremongers among the press weren’t afraid or they wouldn’t have chased her around without protective gear themselves.
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I think you’ll find that the politicians and the press were the “attention grabbers”. The nurse just wanted to go home after a grueling shift in West Africa. The press grab attention because spectacularism is their bread and butter and politicians grab attention because that’s just what politicians do when they think it’s going to help their approval numbers…
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They weren’t quarantined. They were just forced to stay on the George Washington Bridge cause NOBODY’S getting off there.
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i wish that nurse would sue the fat bastard myself, teach that pompus prick a well deserved lesson
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Plus one governor currently being monitored for Stromboli…
Big scam to look like he’s “leading” and doing something about it. I guarantee this is a solution in search of a problem and I would not be at all surprised to hear in a couple weeks that ZERO of these people came down with “teh Ebolas”.
Amazing how the Ebola hysteria seemed to die down the moment the polls closed
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Not just a grueling shift - volunteering to work in that incredibly difficult situation used to be considered heroism
Chris Christie was willing to both whip up a witch-scare and then engage in a gross abuse of power by incarcerating someone without cause on the basis of the baseless, anti-rational fear he himself whipped up in order to advance his quest for the presidency. There was a time, albeit probably not a very long one, when people might have taken note and taken heed.
Yep, selflessly volunteering to help the afflicted at great personal risk meets my definiton of heroism. It’s still grueling work though. Being greeted by a power-crazed bully with ambitions above his station on her return is enough to make the most docile of persons, which I gather our red-headed nurse is not, blow her stack.
If we’ve learned nothing else about Bill Maher, we should have learned that when presented with a choice between being a voice of reason and getting onboard with a hysterical witch hunt whipped up by the the right, its’ really 50-50 which way he’ll go. But the hysteria whipped up against that nurse was a matter of pure politics, nothing more and nothing less. It was the thing Fox was telling its audience to fear because fear is what motivates them to vote and anyone who got hurt was of no consequence. The fact that ebola dropped right off the headlines as soon as the polls closed should tell you all you need to know.
It’s a tactic as old as power itself–whip up hysteria at some convenient target, and you can cement your control on power for days, weeks or years. Any conveniently powerless target will do. Old women living alone with a cat or two to keep them company, Jews, Gypsies, black people, commies, Muslims–same shit, different day. And the next day, after the lynching or the firing squads, the Cossacks or the kangaroo tribunals, everyone goes back to normal without a trace of either shame or recognition that they were played for fools.
And its all the GOP has left. It’s the same scam they’ve run in election after election, relying ever more exclusively upon it for decades: Communists in the State Department, the USSR, effete hippies threatening the moral fiber of the Great Silent Majority, ravening, slavering, raping, murdering negros like Willie Horton and the New Black Panthers, Teh Gayz and their Gay Rays that turn straight kids gay, mooslim t’r’sts with WMD’s, Ebola. If they whipped up a wave of hysteria over witchcraft in two years, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least. Because no one calls them on it and it works.
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Americans have far more lethality to fear from Chris Christie’s diet before the stomach constriction surgery than they do from ebola.
“I’ll have a Number 6 with cheese, large fries, and a Happy Meal.”
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I have NEVER met a docile red head in my life…just sayin’
“These persons are instructed to immediately self-isolate if symptoms begin, and seek medical evaluation at a nearby hospital.”
Always assuming there is a nearby hospital that can deal with the situation .
This is New Jersey we’re talking about, not Texas.