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This shows clearly the inherent danger is such mandatory quarantine orders.
Everyone in America, more or less, is over-reacting to this issue.
There is no “Ebola crisis” in America.
Two people—one a Liberian and one American doctor working in Guinea—came to the US and then became symptomatic.
Several other health care workers were sent here after being symptomatic in Africa.
Two nurses in Dallas became infected after treating the Liberian (who died) because the Dallas hospital was lax about the proper procedures that should have been followed.
No one else has become infected in the US—and no one is likely to be infected in the US.
The media has shamelessly fanned the flames of fear and has done little to explain to people that they cannot catch Ebola casually .
Many Americans believe it’s airborne—and the media has done little to disabuse them of that false idea.
And the GOP has been far worse than the mass media, using the issue for political gain and claiming that they know how to respond to the situation, even though they’re not medical professionals.
(But when it comes to climate change, they avoid the issue because they’re “not scientists.”)
This is such an over-hyped story, because the average American is far more likely to be struck by lightning than to be infected with Ebola.
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A nurse who was quarantined in New Jersey after returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa described the experience in a harrowing first-person account published Saturday.
Imagine that.
People in Newark acting crass, disrespectful, and put-out.
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All because of Chris Christie’s Presidential ambitions.