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1 Lumberhead  Sep 20, 2014 8:00:10am

Remember when Bush received (and continues to) receive well earned praise for helping fight AIDS in Africa? Much of that praise was from liberals but nothing this president does will garner support from a large portion of today’s conservatives.

2 iceweasel  Sep 20, 2014 9:08:15am

I love Digby! Thanks for posting this.

3 nines09  Sep 20, 2014 9:20:01am

Really bad flu bug. That’s putting in perspective. Nothing like a TeaHadist asshole to clarify things. More scared of a man with a knife or bomb than a virus that could mutate and kill millions. Your GOP In Action. They just might as well come out and say it; “Fuck everybody but me. Me, I’m important. Nobody else is. Just me. Fuck all of you. Love, Your GOP/TP.”

4 lostlakehiker  Sep 20, 2014 10:54:53am

Really bad flu bug? Nobody knows any history or any science.

History: flu pandemic of 1918—- killed at least 50 million people, out of a population worldwide of about 1 billion. So that’s five percent dead. Approximately 50% sickened. The “flu” hasn’t always been a particularly vexing cold that occasionally kills old people. Even now, it occasionally kills people of all ages.

Science: diseases, like all life forms, evolve. Ebola is currently making the transition from an animal virus to a human virus. As it learns the ropes of our immune systems, it will get better at transmission. The more people get sick, the more chances it has to learn. “Learn”, here, being shorthand for evolve features that adapt it to surviving and multiplying within and between human hosts.

The longer this thing goes on, the more danger. We are late to the party and underreacting, not early to it and overwrought. With disease, the maxim that what goes around, comes around is a literal, deadly fact.

5 jonhendry  Sep 20, 2014 1:14:24pm
“Learn”, here, being shorthand for evolve features that adapt it to surviving and multiplying within and between human hosts.

We have to hope it also learns not to kill its host in the process. Preferably, learning that first.

6 Kafitrar  Sep 20, 2014 6:12:15pm

If one can’t shoot it, it can’t be a true enemy.

7 Amory Blaine  Sep 20, 2014 7:29:43pm

All our disease-fighting resources should have left for Africa weeks ago flush with cash from the expedited funding bill that blazed through Congress. It’s all fucking bluster. Meanwhile, the rest of the world notices what a clusterfuck we are as “the shining beacon on the hill”.

8 HappyWarrior  Sep 20, 2014 7:32:17pm

re: #1 Lumberhead

Remember when Bush received (and continues to) receive well earned praise for helping fight AIDS in Africa? Much of that praise was from liberals but nothing this president does will garner support from a large portion of today’s conservatives.

It’s classic wingnut devolution. And I agree this was one of Bush’s most admirable qualities. But then again so was not being a dick to Muslims and immigrants, and they’ve ran away from that too.


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