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All people are asking is get a mother fucker off the street, you don't want them ridding the subway, and going on sandwich picnic bike rides though the park.

Are you sure you wanna play this game? Science does have a pretty good track record of sucking hind tit to fear.

Hey, sometimes it's the science that says be afraid. But in the case of Ebola there was a bunch of irrational panic about it blowing up here.

Obama listened to the scientists.

Here are some right wing headlines for you (or headlines about crazy right wing headlines).

Hannity: "I'm Not Covering" The CDC Press Conference On Ebola Because "I Don't Trust Them"

"Rush Limbaugh: Obama Wants Americans To Get Ebola As Payback For Slavery"

http://bluenationreview.com/rush-limbaugh-like-us-believe-obama-letting-ebola-america-payback-slavery/

"Rush Limbaugh: Obama thinks white folks ‘deserve’ Ebola for slavery so he’s not protecting us"

"RUSH LIMBAUGH: EBOLA DOWNPLAYED BY DEMS BECAUSE IT THREATENS AMNESTY "

"Glenn Beck Is Furious That Obama Hasn’t Stopped Ebola Yet "

"Glenn Beck On Fox: President Is Neglecting Dallas Ebola Danger Because Of City's Unfavorable View Of Obama"

Glenn Beck On Ebola Flights: ‘Criminal,’ ‘Insane’ To Not Stop West African Flights [Video]
http://www.inquisitr.com/1548752/glenn-beck-on-ebola-flights-criminal-insane-to-not-stop-west-african-flights-video/

"Glenn Beck Suggests Obama Is Deliberately Letting Texas Get Infected With Ebola Out Of Political Retribution"

"Obama Wrong on Ebola | The Sean Hannity Show"

"Ebola: 6 Reasons to Panic | The Sean Hannity Show"

"Hannity’s Hysteria-Promoting Doctor Back With More Dubious Ebola Claims"

"Why Ebola triggers massive right-wing hysteria "

"Fox News: Obama’s Ebola plans: A new boondoggle? "

"Fox Doc's Racial Rant: Obama Welcomes Ebola Because His "Affinities" Are With Africa"

"Fox News doctor unloads on Obama in unhinged racial rant about Ebola "

"Fox News Contributor Claims Obama Wants Ebola To Spread In US Because He Hates America"

"Fox:Ebola crisis: Team Obama takes politically correct approach, ignores science "

Should I continue ?

marcus says

Should I continue ?

Maybe dig out some of the captains quotes while you are at it. Now he just wants people to not be ridding the subway.

CaptainShuddup says

All people are asking is get a mother fucker off the street, you don't want them ridding the subway, and going on sandwich picnic bike rides though the park.

Are you sure you wanna play this game? Science does have a pretty good track record of sucking hind tit to fear.

I don't understand why they won't go under voluntary quarantine for 21 days until we figure out what the shit is going on. They go all the way to Africa, risking their lives and going through lots of inconvenience to help people in need, but become assholes when they come back.

This^^^^

The fear may be based in people like Gaëtan Dugas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Dugas

Dugas is featured prominently in Randy Shilts's book And the Band Played On, which documents the outbreak of the AIDS pandemic in the United States. Shilts portrays Gaëtan Dugas as having almost sociopathic behavior by allegedly intentionally infecting, or at least recklessly endangering, others with the virus. Dugas is described as being a charming, handsome sexual athlete who, according to his own estimation, averaged hundreds of sex partners a year. He claimed to have had over 2,500 sexual partners across North America since becoming sexually active in 1972.[7]

While in reality Dugas may not have been the asshole (pun intended) portrayed in the book there may be a real fear of infected people adopting a fatalistic "gift giver" attitude.

New Renter says

there may be a real fear of infected people adopting a fatalistic "gift giver" attitude.

Unlikely. This is not transmitted only by sex or IV drug sharing, and with Ebola it's an extremely short period of time between being symptomatic (i.e. being contagious, and feeling like SHIT), and either dying or getting better.

I don't see much reason to think that someone that happens to catch it will also happen to be a pathologically evil dirtbag.