Ebola is such a manufactured panic.

[tecelote]

There are so many more important issues.

Remember Bird Flu?

If a plane disappear tomorrow, will Ebola matter?

[Skittles]

1. are you referring to Africa or America?

[tecelote]

2. Obviously, America.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. It's pretty damned important in west Africa

where several thousand people have died and there seems to be no end to the outbreak. In this country there is no need to panic, but we can't just ignore disasters elsewhere.

[Fred Sanders]

4. The Great American Panic is already fading as no new cases emerge....the GOP enablers really

fucked up the politics of fear on this one.

[1StrongBlackMan]

14. I beg to differ ...

for the gop base the fact that no new cases have emerged what matter; but look at all the folks here calling for travel bans for THIS ailment but not to address any of the other highly communiciable CURRENT pandemics occurring world-wide.

[Fred Sanders]

16. Facts will bring wandering liberals back to the path, cons are fixated on only one.

[1StrongBlackMan]

17. I agree; but, we're 3 weeks out. eom.

[Fred Sanders]

18. That is a political lifetime. Look at the panic of Ebola a few days ago and the swift return of calm

now. The fear mongering of the cons can be turned against them in this time.

[kestrel91316]

5. Tell that to the thousands of dead and dying Africans.

No man is an island.......................Ask not for whom the bell tolls..........it tolls for thee. Some irrelevant dude named Donne said that.

Really. SHAME ON YOU.

[tecelote]

9. This isn't about Africa!

What news story have you heard saying we need to fight Ebola in Africa?

That would be a nice change. Real news.

[kestrel91316]

10. Oh, I've been reading those stories pretty much endlessly since last spring.

And they aren't about how we SHOULD fight it in Africa. They are about how we (humans, including Americans) ARE fighting it.

You need to spend less time on DU. And stop watching FauxNooz.

[Skittles]

12. you know it kestrel

[1StrongBlackMan]

15. I suspect the OP was referring to ...

the "panic" being manufactured here in the U.S. for political reasons ... because "panic" is needed here to promote political nihilism; "panic" is NOT needed in Africa, and the messages in the two places differ significantly ... here: panicked fear; there: unpanicked treatment/cure.

[blkmusclmachine]

6. ISIS is a manufactured panic.

[tecelote]

8. Absolutely!

When ISIS is old news, there are a thousand more terrorist organizations to scare America with.

[tecelote]

7. This isn't about Africa!

I wish the discussion was "how do we help Africa?".

Aids is rampant there too.

This is about America's freak out on "What if it happens to us?".

It won't. Not with Ebola. Aids is a different story.

A different story lost in the media frenzy.

[Skittles]

11. naw, if you don't care about ebola, please fill in the details

make sure you SAY *ONLY IN AMERICA

[tecelote]

13. So, now I don't care about Ebola?

And, I'm called a FauxNooz watcher?

Can you twist this any more?

But, I get your point, our media is just doing the job they are so good at. It's nice to see that you hold today's journalism in such high regard.

What an ass I am for thinking different.

[Skittles]

19. is your panic manufactured?