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In reply to the discussion: To All the A**holes who are Insulting the Flying Ebola Nurse: Shut Your F***ing Faces. [View all]Feral Child
(2,086 posts)I agree with you completely, but I did enjoy coasting down-thread, drifting lazily past the eddies of emotionality displayed.
Many in this thread seem to feel very personally offended by the woman. Might be a vitamin D deficiency in some posters. Like, if they won't push away from the computer and go out in the sunshine now and then, they better start taking supplements.
There's a lot of hysteria on the subject of Ebola. It isn't Spanish Flu and this isn't 1917. Of course, I sympathize with the victims of this disease but the "test" it's given to the CDC and our system of response has been most enlightening.
Perhaps this will serve a lesson to our Aristocrats-w/o-Titles that we need to balance our concerns and that non-stop military spending isn't the answer to all problems. Instead, unfortunately, it seems to be a ginning up of the fear-factor that will be translated to more loss of civil liberties in order to make us "feel" safe; a placebo that engenders more symptoms, to use a medical metaphor for bad governance.