[quote]For once, President Barack Obama and Texas Gov. Rick Perry are on the same page. At separate briefings on the Ebola crisis, Obama administration officials and Perry have delivered the same message: Don’t panic — the health authorities know what they’re doing.
But for other Republicans — and conservative media outlets — it’s time for panic.
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Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky declared on “The Laura Ingraham Show” that “this could get beyond our control” and worried, “Can you imagine if a whole ship full of our soldiers catch Ebola?”
Sen. Ted Cruz — Perry’s Texas colleague — raised the prospect of restricting or banning flights to the West African countries that are hardest hit by the disease, noting in a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration that some African nations and certain airlines have already imposed their own flight bans.
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In fact, of the 2016 Republican hopefuls who have commented on the Ebola crisis, Perry is the only one who has been a reassuring voice.
At a Wednesday press conference in Dallas, he made all of the points public health experts make to reduce public fears: You can’t catch it by breathing it, people aren’t contagious before they have any symptoms, and it’s much harder to catch than the common cold. And he gave public health officials a strong vote of confidence: “Rest assured that our system is working as it should. Professionals on every level of the chain of command know what to do to minimize this potential risk to the people of Texas and of this country, for that matter.”
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And a travel ban “makes no sense,” she said, because “if people want to get here, they’ll get here. … When we live in a global age, bad things spread.”
Troy said it’s not a good idea for the administration to rule out a travel ban under any circumstances, because their thinking could change depending on how bad the outbreak gets. But it would cause problems, he said — not just because of the economic impact to the already devastated West African countries, but also because Americans and aid workers could get stuck there.[/quote]
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Yeah, Ebola is all Obama's fault because he won't lock down the border with troops and shoot all the immigrants and do everything else the GOP has ever wanted.
Fuck off.
This is the best game of Pandemic ever.
Fucking 16'ers
we're the worst disease of all, ebola doesn't stand a chance
Sort of like when Joe Biden advised people not go "anywhere in confined places," specifically mentioning air planes and subways, when H1N1 was a thing. ([URL]http://www.today.com/id/26184891/vp/30494440#30494440[/URL])
People say dumb things. It has nothing to do with which party you are in.
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