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Jon Stewart rips 'sanity-resistant' Ebola coverage
Yahoo News ^ | Oct, 15th, 2014 | By Dylan Stableford

Posted on 10/15/2014 7:57:17 PM PDT by Mariner

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To: Mariner

“These guys on the left and their politicians in office today do not realize the entire universe has changed in the last 72 hours.

Each and every one of them will be hanging from a lamp post before another year passes.”

Face palm. The whole Ebola thing is utter nonsense trumped up to scare and entertain the cud chewing low information voter. Last year 300,000 Americans died of obesity related illness and another 443,000 died of smoking related disease. But that does not make news.

So far we have 0 Americans and 1 foreigner dead of Ebola, 2 Americans sick after taking care of foreign guy. The only way you are gonna catch it is if you go to Africa and drink toilet water, modern sanitation will prevent an epidemic. You are more likely to be disemboweled by a kangaroo than to die from Ebola. Get a grip people.

I have a morbidly obese coworker who will not shut up about Ebola as she shovels fast food in her mouth. Should be more worried about losing her foot to diabetes. Worried about health? Go for a jog and eat something not deep friend, it will make you live longer, worrying about Ebola will not.


21 posted on 10/15/2014 8:22:13 PM PDT by BurningOak (Live Free or Die)
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To: Mariner

Jonboy will be hoisted on his own petard by his ignorant audience if this disease breaks out.


22 posted on 10/15/2014 8:24:43 PM PDT by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: Mariner
I just heard some other doctor on talk radio basically saying this. Painting it as the "public is in hysteria".

This must be the new talking point after "Republican budget cuts caused this".

23 posted on 10/15/2014 8:26:21 PM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Mariner

I guess Jon-Jon approves of ignoring all the children dying from the enterovirus.


24 posted on 10/15/2014 8:26:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Ramius
There seems to be this image, probably from bad sci-fi movies, that whenever there’s any bad news there will be masses of people running pel-mel in the streets breaking everything in sight. Except... In actual times of emergency that just never seems to happen.

They're in favor of the only group in America that's actually doing that at present. So, it's not the behavior with which they take issue, it's the demographic.

25 posted on 10/15/2014 8:26:40 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: BurningOak

What is the percentage death rate after eating a burger or smoking a cigarette?

What is it after contracting Ebola?


26 posted on 10/15/2014 8:26:42 PM PDT by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: BurningOak
Burning Oak is another who would tell folks that they are not really drowning, they can breathe.

As the water fills their lungs.

Oak.

This has nothing to do with the RATIONAL MIND. AND IT NEVER WILL.

27 posted on 10/15/2014 8:27:02 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: eyedigress

Yes. Jon Boy will be singing a different tune if Mr. Ebola comes knocking on his front door.


28 posted on 10/15/2014 8:27:46 PM PDT by windsorknot
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Clearly isolation is one of the major tools for controlling Ebola...Why not isolate
countries where the disease is rampant?

Again

we are sending people and our military in there to get it under control...that will continue...

Just like we send Doctors and nurses into the isolation units of hospitals..but why allow anyone to go anywhere they want? We don’t want ebola stricken patients to wander about. And we don’t want Aunt Maude to go visit her sick nephew

As to innocent (healthy) people suffering because of the geographical area they are from:
What is the rational for all people to be checked at airports because there may be some among them who are potential threats (terrorists)....
Are these not somewhat equivalent situations?


29 posted on 10/15/2014 8:29:55 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Mariner

This guy used to tend bar at City Gardens.

One infected at that place back then and NJ would be decimated.


30 posted on 10/15/2014 8:30:11 PM PDT by Rome2000
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I think people are freaking out because too many people think the Ebola virus will become something like the viruses that cause the common cold or influenza, both of which are known to kill millions of people per year from its side effects, especially pneumonia among elderly patients.

Here's the thing: the common cold and influenza viruses are shaped in a way that aerosol transmission is VERY easy to do. That's why if there is a persistent flu strain, people get sick on a huge scale. In sharp contrast, the Ebola virus transmits akin to the cholera (Vibrio cholerae) and bubonic plague (Yersinia pestis) bacteriums, especially in poor sanitary conditions. Given the often very poor sanitary conditions in western Africa, small wonder why Ebola has become a major problem there.

(In fact, some scientists claim that the Black Death that ravaged Europe between 1346 and 1353 was caused by something akin to the Ebola virus. Only one problem: scientists have actually exhumed the remains of victims of the Black Death and determined just about all of them suffered from the effects of Yersinia pestis infection. Claims that this bacterium couldn't spread with European winters between 1346 and 1353 are also dismissed, given that it wasn't until after 1400--more than half a century after the worst years of the Black Death--that European winters started getting a lot colder, which did slow down the spread of this disease.)

Yes, we need to take a lot more prudent steps to stop the potential spread of Ebola in the continental USA, including banning anyone who has lived or stayed in western Africa until the person can proved they free of the disease, including a 24-day quarantine. But given the vastly better sanitary conditions and better medical care available here (including access to experimental medications being worked on by biotech companies all over the USA), I personally think the hysteria is reaching the point of conspiracy theory crazy and nobody is benefiting when the scare stories reach this level.

31 posted on 10/15/2014 8:31:11 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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“the survivors will kill them”

Eh, he’s an entertainer- a ‘fool’. He works for his advertisers. He says what they want him to say: whatever makes callow youths feel like buying their products. Which is usually whatever makes them feel good about themselves.
This lie made them feel like they are ‘smarter’. Kids love that.


32 posted on 10/15/2014 8:36:05 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: RayChuang88

The fact that 2 healthcare workers now have Ebola even though they were in a highly sterilized hospital environment argues against this quote

” Given the often very poor sanitary conditions in western Africa, small wonder why Ebola has become a major problem there.”


33 posted on 10/15/2014 8:36:12 PM PDT by woofie
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To: BurningOak

IBTZ


34 posted on 10/15/2014 8:36:17 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: RayChuang88

Keep in mind “The Won” said it would never be in the United States.

Keep in mind the CDC has no real clue how these nurses got infected.

If all I get from the fed is just BS then I have a complete right to not trust a damn thing they say about this disease.


35 posted on 10/15/2014 8:36:45 PM PDT by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: RayChuang88
You've got some apples and oranges there.

Is ebola at all like the common cold or influenza? Well, they are all viruses.

Is ebola like Plague or Cholera? Well, Plague and Cholera are bacteriums.

But it appears to me that your conclusion is that the Ebola Virus will tend to behave like the bacteriums and not like the viruses.

I guess we'll see.

36 posted on 10/15/2014 8:37:04 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Now is not the time for fear. That comes later.")
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To: Mariner

There is no Ebola epidemic, it is just a slow news cycle. Because ISIS, Ukraine, the election, and activist judges destroying marriage are apparently too boring for our jaded pallet. We need to be entertained by a fake end times plague.


38 posted on 10/15/2014 8:39:29 PM PDT by BurningOak (Live Free or Die)
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To: grey_whiskers

Yeah zot me before I knock some sense into you.


39 posted on 10/15/2014 8:40:36 PM PDT by BurningOak (Live Free or Die)
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"Given the often very poor sanitary conditions in western Africa"

And, apparently, Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

And ever4yone there is "tuned in" and has a bachelors degree or better from a good school.

Something is very wrong with the BS story about the difficulty of Ebola transmission and the ability of a civil population to fight it.

When 70% of the infected are dying, don't stand in front of that train.

40 posted on 10/15/2014 8:41:49 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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