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i wonder if depends diapers have also seen an explosion in sales, judging by the hysteria of the chatterbunnies providing the coverage (and itâs not just fox⌠msnbc gives them a run for their fear-pimping)
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It was sharks and Gary Condit in 2001.
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Why am I not surprised. It happens in Africa- âwho caresâ It happens in the USâŚmass hysteria!
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Until the media hype calms down and sanity returns, people can do something to protect themselves: get a flu shot.
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They are all freaking out. End of times just around the corner. Donât buy green bananas.
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No missing planes to talk about. Although, I noticed CNN has whipped out the maps with flight routes to show people how airplanes make it from Dallas to Cleveland. Iâm embarrassed to be an American at times.
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These three cases of Ebola in the US have been a live drill. An after action report on this incident should include an evaluation of the press as if this had been an actual emergency.
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If it bleeds, it leads. A story about a strange virus from the Congo that liquefies your organs and makes you bleed from your eyeballs will always bring clicks and eyeballs that donât want to bleed out.
Capitalism at itâs finest. âHow do you like your blue eyed boy, now, Mr Death?â
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Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
I stopped watching Sunday morning news programs late in the 90s with the whole MonicaGate controversy where I heard âdistinguished panelistsâ argue that we should impeach Clinton over Lewinsky while trading arms for hostages wasnât that big of a deal.
Then I stopped watching mainstream news almost entirely after the run-up to the invasion of Iraq and the disgusting color commentary that occurred for the first few weeks until we realized we really screwed up - also, the firing of Dan Rather really sealed it.
Mainstream media is controlled by a few conglomerates whose primary interest is their shareholders and their advertisers; hence they are clearly not sources to be trusted. Case closed.
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MSM rule #1: âIf it bleeds, it leadsâ.
That explains it all.
Itâs unamerican to not be perpetually petrified of shit with a negligible shot at killing you.
The history of AIDS is repeating itself, with the key difference that todayâs conservatives are much bigger tools about it. The pharmaceutical industry is more willfully indifferent towards helping sick people today, because theyâve known about ebola for many years longer than what it took them to discover that HIV causes AIDS.
Republicans are more willfully partisan about ebola because today thereâs a Democrat in the White House, and they have a vast, enabling, self sanctifying social network of Fox, Rush and the internet, which Reagan never dreamed of.
Both viruses required the accidental infection of health care workers to break into the public news cycle.
Imagine the newsgasm if a plane from west Africa goes missing over the ocean.
Listening to the hearing a little bit you can see that the Republicans Reps. are looking for some scalp to go after for purely political reasons. Just as they did when they went after Shinseki over the Veteran Administration problems. The other thing that seemed to be constantly overlooked by these same Republicans is that Dr. Frieden said over and over again that the CDC can only give guidance to the states and the states individual hospitals that reside therein. The CDC canât mandate, force regulations on the hospitals, or force them to follow their guidelines, even though they should be amenable to these things out of a sense of good public health practices. Its a wonder why no one has thought to ask Gov. Perry what heâs doing about a hospital that might have failed to follow those practices in his own state. But I guess IOKIYAR, right?
Frieden also explained in detail over and over again why preventing travel bans from those countries would handicap the CDCâs ability to track the personal history of travelers necessary to contain the illness, since they would still find a way to come to this country through other countries. As expected, he was roundly ignored in this regard by the Republicans on the dais, who found it more important to interrupt him whenever he would try to make this point.
The idea that everyone is worried about Ebola becoming widespread here and afraid of getting it, is a Republican theme now, which seems to be playing itself out in the MSM, being parroted with little regard for the mediaâs responsibility to not create a panic. But if its good for ratings, its good enough for them to play up the emotional concerns rather than appeal to peopleâs intellect, giving factual information as opposed to playing on irrational fears.
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