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'A plague like no other': Americans panic over first U.S.-diagnosed Ebola patient
The Centers for Disease Control and the White House have repeatedly reassured Americans the risk of an Ebola epidemic hitting the U.S. is low but that didnt seem to quell the panic boiling over on Twitter. Users, including Donald Trump, fearfully predicted a dire, deadly outbreak.
BY MEG WAGNER NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, October 1, 2014, 9:23 AM
Ebola is here and so is the mass hysteria.
Public fear about the deadly virus boiled over Tuesday after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first U.S.-diagnosed case.
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2014
Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) September 30, 2014
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http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/americans-panic-u-s-diagnosed-ebola-patient-article-1.1959147
valerief
(53,235 posts)like this would happen.
JustAnotherGen
(31,681 posts)BTW - I'm now lumping tweety in with them after his nonsense on MSNBC last night. . .
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Not surprising.
Mike Daniels
(5,842 posts)It was pretty embarrassing to watch him yesterday.
JustAnotherGen
(31,681 posts)But I kind of expected it from him. I generally don't watch him anymore - just because there is so a sharp demarcation between he and Al Sharpton -
I.E. Sharpton introduces the guest, gives guest's background, asks question - shuts up. Asks question - shuts up. Etc. etc.
Tweety - introduces guests, gives HIS background, explains what it means to him, asks question ten cuts off the guest.
He's like the Bill O'Reilly of MSNBC with his ranting and raving.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Nutbags gonna get their nutbag on.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)And it probably is possible that an infant Obama in Kenya planted this disease in other parts of Africa, right?
(do I have to find the sarcasm smilie?)
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)So um, there's that.
louis-t
(23,199 posts)fredamae
(4,458 posts)funding by about $600,000,000.00 since 2010 and NOW they're in a Panic? Priceless. This is what the Nuts get back for their investments of both money and Votes for GOP Teabaggers.....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/ebola-cdc-budget_n_5913844.html
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The "Thanks Obama" tagline kind of gives it away.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)By the time Ronald Wilson Reagan so much as mentioned the virus, there were already well over 20,000 dead in the United States along with another 50,000 Americans infected. Infections had spread to 113 countries which had another 50,000 cases.
So at that time, they sat in silence as thousands and thousands of Americans died in America. They did nothing. They said nothing.