Long holds up a copy of a magazine with an Ebola headline as public health officials testify before a House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis, in Washington

With Ebola , climate change, or any other issue the GOP keeps denying what science is telling us.

Ebola is a terrible thing, but one person has died in America from it. He came from Liberia and was turned away from the emergency room only to return with Ebola. This was in Texas. One of the nurses who got Ebola from Mr. Duncan is now free of Ebola. His girlfriend and the other people who lived with him in their apartment are not infected. Science tells us that it is not transferred that easily.

My point is that the GOP is fear mongering! Safe to say more Americans have died from the flu in the past two weeks than from Ebola. Why are they not fear mongering about the flu? The flu kills many Americans each year.

How fair is it to put people who are healthy and returning from helping Ebola patients in Africa in quarantine? Why treat these people like criminals? Science tells us the returning people can just be monitored and when and if they have a higher temperature, that is the time for quarantine in the hospital.

The GOP denies science. Climate change is happening. Ebola is dangerous but nurses and doctors are not bringing it here if they don’t have it!

So am I right or not? Lets talk about this.

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Fear mongering in the 21st century! Who’d have thought that in the age of Martian rovers there would still be so many stupid people in the so-called greatest nation on the planet. With a national voice yet. It’s a real embarrassment is what it is.

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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT! This is a WARNING to all of my Republican friends! ALL of the polling precincts and ballots across our great land of freedom and democracy have been infected with EBOLA by Obama. The only way to avoid contamination and death is to stay at home and away from those places and documents for 21 days until the danger has passed or you may die! Please pass this warning on to everyone you can!

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Harleigh, maybe we can have Muslim Americans staffing polling places, that should scare off Repubs just as much.

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Harleigh

It will be UN poll watchers looking for all the ACORN voter fraud and recruiting FEMA reeducation camp ‘volunteers’.

monicaangela
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I can’t say I know the real reason they are not fear mongering about the flu, but I have my suspicions. Could it be that Big Pharma has a way to market their wares for the flu but have not yet figured out how to make or administer a vaccine for Ebola? How do you get millions of Americans and billions of people worldwide to buy your product, when you put it on the market, if you don’t first scare them into believing that without your product their lives are definitely in danger? Once capitalism, the GOP and corporations figure this out, the fear mongering over Ebola will probably subside, even if the disease kills more people than it is killing today…the deaths brought on by these diseases help sell a product and in a capitalistic state, profit, not human life is the bottom line.

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Dad, the GOP has to fear-monger because they don’t actually have a platform to stand on. They are anti-science, women, poor, middle class, livable wage, – they have nothing but fear to go on. It’s baffling how they can get any votes at all.