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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My opinion of DCUM posters has never been so low. [/quote]

Why? [/quote]

New poster--this thread is appalling to me. Posters seem to be actively rooting for an Ebola outbreak in this country because it would make President Obama look bad. You should be ashamed of yourselves.[/quote]

Very much like Bush and Kartrina

Only this is much more serious and incompetent .[/quote]

Nearly 2,000 deaths versus 1. How is this "much more serious"?

The biggest challenge the Obama administration faces is the unnecessary hysteria being generated.
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Katrina doesn't continue to spread. Jesus, Jeff, do you get paid off?[/quote]

I don't think you can say Ebola continues to spread here. Two health care workers contracted it because of poor precautions at that one facility. NONE of the medical workers at other facilities caring for Ebola patients have contracted it. NO ONE has contracted it through casual contact, including Duncan's family. Its not an epidemic in the US. I'm not sure it even meets the technical definition of an outbreak.

There are tea party posters here who are just being irrational. Katrina was out of the ballpark more serious -- many deaths, people waiting days to be rescued. What you can say here is that one hospital screwed up badly and you could say, maybe, that the CDC should have been more proactive in general and perhaps the hospital would have been better prepared (or maybe not. I'm not familiar with this hospital but its possible that it just provides substandard care in general).

It just seems to me that some people are enjoying stoking up irrational fears. Maybe they're bored. And the tea partiers have yet to learn that the reason their base is shrinking is because the way they blame Obama for everything in a really convoluted, twisted way turns people off. Its not a political argument, its a constant rant that we've all learned to just not listen to. Who are you going to convince with these ridiculous comparisons to Katrina? No one.[/quote]

I am not so sure the people to whom you are referring are “tea partiers.”  I think there are a lot of different people - even some Dems - who are very, very concerned.  
People are naturally scared.  It is a pretty serious virus.  And, considering that a majority of people favor a travel ban, they are believing that the administration is not listening to the voters.  [/quote]

I would prefer that they listen to the actual experts -- who say that a travel ban would cause MORE people to come into the country evading detection because they would lie and avoid medical help -- than listen to the mob.[/quote]

By experts, you mean politicians?  Virologists are saying otherwise[/quote]

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