From some random Ted Cruz staffer to Larry Klayman, the right wing is really coming out and using Ebola hysteria in any way they can, no matter how irrational or three kinds of racist.
There are now three individuals who have contracted Ebola in the U.S. To give you a little perspective on the situation, Influenza kills about 36,000 people a year in the U.S. There's no influenza travel ban, no quarantines, just the same old routine response every year. So what's really behind the Ebola frenzy that's being vehemently stirred by Republicans? Could it be an election year?
"The dangers of a serious outbreak are extraordinarily low," said Obama, "but we are taking this very seriously." Also discussed: An actual plan to literally SWAT anyone diagnosed with Ebola.
Louisiana's Attorney General, Buddy Caldwell, refuses – like most Republicans these days – to listen to the science when it comes to Ebola. He's trying to inhibit the incinerated remains of Ebola victim Eric Duncan from traveling to his state (though incineration most assuredly vaporizes the virus).
Everyone's favorite laughing stock/terrifying propaganda machine has been using the Ebola scare to heighten the power of their fright machine. Fox News host Gretchen Carlson literally sums up everything about Fox News with this helping of word salad while talking about Ebola.
Fox hose Laura Ingraham has been known to say some crazy things on her show, but this one may take the prize. Obama's 'African roots' are to blame for Ebola in Texas and the security lapses at the White House in her bizarre world.
President Obama, in his annual address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, cited "the cancer of violent extremism" in the Middle East as the single issue that could derail future global progress, and said six years into his presidency that the world is at a crossroads. He specifically called on Muslim communities in the region to confront the threat of extremism and reject such ideology.
Speaking at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, President Obama provides an update on the U.S. plan to help combat the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. President Obama says the U.S. will lead on fighting the ebola outbreak. He also says the probability of ebola spreading to the U.S. is low, but the country is ready to deal with it.
People who were being screened for Ebola when they fled a health center during looting have turned themselves into a hospital, a Liberian official said Tuesday. The patients fled when an Ebola holding facility was ransacked in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, on Saturday night, raising fears that the deadly virus might spread into the densely populated slum surrounding it. Information Minister Lewis Brown said Tuesday that the last 17 people who were missing have now turned themselves in to a treatment center at a major hospital in the capital.
