Posted on 10/09/2014 9:22:30 PM PDT by re_nortex
DALLAS — So far, there is no evidence the Ebola virus has spread in this vast metropolitan area of 6.5 million people. But fear has.
Fearing infection, dozens of parents kept their children home. At Armstrong Elementary School in the affluent Highland Park neighborhood, 91 students — one sixth of the school’s total — were absent Thursday after rumors spread among parents.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“It’s not rational, it’s just a lack of knowledge,” he said. The director of the C.D.C., Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, became frustrated upon hearing that parents were keeping their children out of school.
Recall that this insufferable Frieden is the Lean Forward fool. Disgusting.
Maybe the CDPC should consider erring on the side of caution.
While that area has very wealthy people living there.....there children do NOT go to the public schools; which actually makes this article’s author not only pig ignorant, but also RACIST.....vis-a-vis the kids who didn’t go to school that day !
All scientists agree, Ebola kills. It’s settled science.
It's obvious that the Slimes (an anti-America, anti-Israel house organ for hussein and mooselimbs) is painting the reaction of Texans during the O'bola crisis as irrational. Given the circumstances, the parents who keep their children at home are just being cautious. Since the regime spins lie after lie, it's only prudent to be careful. The Slimes mockery of the good people of Texas is reprehensible.
We didn’t panic that bad with polio but I remember the fear.
Airline cabin cleaners walk off jobs over Ebola fears at New York airport
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3213327/posts
Ignorance and inaccuracy are the hallmarks of the Slimes. I'm a RMS Titanic historian and in April 1912, their coverage of that disaster was laughably wrong on the details. That commie rag literally fabricated thing out of thin air. The sordid swap that is the Noo Yawk Slimes is nothing new, it's been their "journalistic" calling card for at least 112 years.
That’s quite true and don’t forget their idiotic reporter, William Duranty, who wrote glowingly of Stalin’s USSR and the laughable Potemkin Village !
Some parents did and it was very “normal” for kids to be not allowed to go to the movies and other enclosed places, in the summer, which was always the height of the Polio season.
And, at least in the early years, the Slimes was somewhat gung-ho for Hitler or at least tepid in his criticism of the little Austrian corporal.
Not really “gung-ho”;however, during WW II and after, the ONLY mentioned CONCENTRATION CAMPS something like 3 times !
Duranty won a Pulitzer for the propaganda about the USSR, which should have long ago been taken away from him, as well as the one for the Slimes, that they were given, for running those article! And that was all Pre WW II !
I wonder what his family thinks of the whole affair.
If you can filter out the leftist spin from USA Today, a mouthpiece for the hussein/holder cabal, this piece does offer some interesting insight from the Monnig family perspective:
Huff post has NOTHing?
On ebola?
Zero?
They probably did more to get Castro in power in Cuba with a glowing article about how he was going to establish a democracy there, too.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
...there children do NOT go to the public schools...
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Don’t know where you’re from, but most of the kids in Highland Park DO go to public schools. Highland Park High School has produced some good athletes in several sports, as well as business professionals, for many decades.
“Yes, well, that’s the sort of blinkered, philistine pig ignorance I’ve come to expect from you non-creative garbage.”
The irrational overreactions might be fueled, in part, because hardly anyone alive today remembers a time when quarantines were a normal part of life. Certainly, those parents have not lived through such a time.
But who knows, with the prevalence of antibiotic resistance going up, we may get to go back to quarantine as a routine public health measure. And then there won't be so much panic over the fact that a kid who actually saw someone with Ebola before he got sick went to school.
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