re: #302 Dr. Matt

Eh, they’ll still be calling for flights to be canceled from West Africa, even though there are no direct flights to the US from Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, which is where the outbreak is now contained (Senegal and Nigeria have managed to stop the outbreaks there due to people traveling into the country as Duncan did in a flight via Brussels).

But the greater threat is that too many people are using Ebola as an excuse to kick people off flights because they’re black, or not allowing them to attend school even if they’re from a country 2,600 miles away from where the outbreak is occurring, etc.

The fear, hysteria, and panic from a breathless media hyping the threat to the US has let fly all manner of derp. And the GOP gleefully plays into this by claiming the President and Democrats have failed at something, even though all the failures are the result of a Dallas hospital being incapable of following infection control protocols.