Posted on 08/04/2014 9:26:06 PM PDT by BlopAndStop
Worried about the spread of Ebola in the United States? A Boston Globe-owned website has some advice for you: shut the f— up!
Unlike here, the tweet embedded in the middle of a Boston.com story about increasing fear of the virus doesn’t use the dashes. And its inclusion is no accident: the flow chart graphic is central to their coverage.
It’s just one of several stories underscoring the relatively bizarre approach our media is taking to Ebola’s spread. Number one: anyone worried about it is a paranoid, delusional freak and two, let’s use this as a new way to bash America!
If Boston.com was looking to calm concerned readers, it could’ve done so without the vulgar insults. Take a look:
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaequalizer.com ...
A bit ridiculous to say anyone with a concern should shut up.
It’s a highly lethal disease that is at current uncontrolled. I’m not peeing my pants in fear but I am stay abreast of containment efforts in the hopes it doesn’t spread further.
Why is the media being so... blasé about this?
President Ebola’s orders
We really don’t need that language here.
Nor is it needed at Boston.com
I swear the world is falling apart.
I blame Obama.
Shut the hell up would do just as well.
I mean really, please, people!
Naturally, a rational person concerns himself with such matters a bit earlier. But the author of the chart obviously have never seen a rational person in his whole life.
IOW, the news-hype is just that: hype.
Take a good, calm breath and consider the actual facts and plan on that; nobody needs you running around in hysterics, not even you.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
They always want us to panic, but only about the things they want us to panic about, and rush to the democrats to fix. Such as climate change, rising oceans. We are not allowed to create our own panics. If we would just let the democrats somehow get ahead on this and look like they are leading, then we would be allowed to panic.
Ya got to love the American media...
Masters of manipulation, devils of deceit...
They don’t want the POLITICAL fallout. This is all about keeping the borders open and helping ‘the children’ coming across without any quarantine, wait period, testing, nothing.
If Americans wake up from their snoozing and realize infected people who can spread a 90% deadly disease are entering our country, they’d be on the border with shotguns.
It’s an inconvenient time for leftists.
Of course, they also may be in favor of ‘thinning out the herd’ as humans are a cancer on the face of the earth to the global warming crowd. They’d like 90% gone.
I think they don’t want anyone being fearful of foreigners while trying to push a near complete elimination of immigration rules.
Just like they’re not concerned about ISIS. They want us to accept a narrative completely counter to the truth.
"Ok, ebola got here, but it wasn't the illegals, so don't take it out on them."
"Ok, ebola is epidemic here. But stop pointing fingers at us. What difference, at this point, does that make?"
....” a narrative completely counter to the truth”.....
Lies deceptively made to appear as truth...good vs.evil..etc. This games been going on for years...but now our own nation has moved to the other side.
Some people will fight for their normalcy bias...
http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/Scarlet/
The Scarlet Plague
by Jack London, as published in London Magazine, 28(June 1912): 513-40.
[Thanks to David Reed for providing this eText and John H. Doe for markup]
Guess Jack London is out of style these days.
Well, let's have the news facts. New Ebola cases per day are ... rising? falling? ... confined ? unconfined ?
I believe the latter answers pertain, so ...
That Liberian civil worker, who flew in two airplanes and then collapsed in a Nigerian airport, is a good example. How many people were exposed to his bodily fluids? (That includes sweat, for example, that he left on every handrail and every door knob and on every cup that he returned to the cabin crew. Say nothing about the leftovers of his coffee, with his saliva in it. Where did they go?) How many people went out of their way to avoid him in the confined space of the airplane? Another concern is that initial signs of Ebola are not much different from a flu, and a person might be contagious even before he knows that he has it. This Liberian was not a slum dweller - he was an educated man; and still he did all the unsafe things that he did. What can be expected from a less educated person, from one who all his life used Aspirin as a universal cure?
The possibility of bioterrorism is also real. There is no way to detect a virus in someone's body, and there are many ways to spread that virus in a large city. Africa has no borders, and many Islamists are born in Africa; it's their home.
Nobody argues that people should run in circles, scream and shout. That is not very productive. However it is advantageous to remain informed and always have plan B just in case an unlikely unfortunate event occurs. It is true at this time that death from Ebola is not very likely (even in Africa.) However just a century ago the Spanish Flu killed from 50 to 100 million people, and 500 million were infected. Nobody expected the Spanish Flu - but it came nevertheless.
Redo:
Well, let’s have the news facts. New Ebola cases per day are ... falling? rising? ... confined ? unconfined ?
I believe the latter answers pertain, so ...
What do you say to a doctor who took all the precautions and still contracted Ebola?
We are not certain about the vector. For example "bodily fluids" can be airborne as vapor.
This uncertainty is the main reason for the current concern.
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