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Leprosy is an excellent

Verified Atheist — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:10:44 +0000

In reply to In the past; Just because

Leprosy is an excellent comparison. Leprosy is also not very contagious.

Stop. Being. Afraid.

Resistance — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:27:50 +0000

In reply to The United States is now

Stop. Being. Afraid.

I suppose you think those words, would have been comforting to Eric Duncan?

Catching the Ebola virus is rare;....... lets keep it that way.

At a minimum he should limit

Resistance — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:23:38 +0000

In reply to What is surely inappropriate

At a minimum he should limit his contacts for 3 weeks.See a lover or a few friends? Sure.,if they are willing to take the risk

He didn't care enough to consider others.

'I can infect whomever I please': HIV-positive woman steals frozen food from Texas Walmart, tries to infect employee ...

In the past; Just because

Resistance — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:02:26 +0000

In reply to I used the words "Quarantine

In the past; Just because people had compassion for folks with leprosy didn't mean the rest of the people and their communities, had to allow the lepers and the compassionate ones. who had contact with the lepers be allowed to freely mingle within the community. Today, new drugs have helped those with leprosy.

Until new drugs are found to be to be affective against EBOLA. (but I haven't heard of any that will make the disease safer to be around.)

Until then, we must safeguard our communities. Quarantining works; It helped prevent leprosy from spreading until a cure was found and it will prevent Ebola as well.

I didn't take it as a whine,

Verified Atheist — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 05:24:00 +0000

In reply to Sorry to have appeared to be

I didn't take it as a whine, but rather I took it as a legitimate concern, even though I do not share your specific concerns. (That's not to say that I think Ebola is a cake-walk or anything, of course.)

Sorry to have appeared to be

Flavius — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 04:36:40 +0000

In reply to I think it's unfortunate that

Sorry to have appeared to be whining about being in a minority..And won't compound the error by saying any more now.

I would normally have been critical of the Coumo /Christie offensive.But I felt we were drifting and they sure stopped that.

I think it's unfortunate that

Verified Atheist — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:26:24 +0000

In reply to Another Halloween story?

I think it's unfortunate that you're feeling uncomfortable disagreeing with the dagblog consensus, and that definitely suggests we should be less hostile in responding to those we disagree with (and I'm looking into the mirror as I write this).

I think it's perfectly reasonable for the average person to have concerns about Ebola and its contagiousness, especially considering the media frenzy. If one imagines that politicians are people, too (a stretch, I know), then it's also possible to understand how many of them will say things that aren't accurate about the disease.

That said, due process is all about protecting us from rushing to judgment, and I'm glad that due process appears to be working for us.

What is surely inappropriate

Flavius — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:50:46 +0000

In reply to Since my knowledge of

What is surely inappropriate is doing nothing to prevent a Craig Spencer from taking the subway.

At a minimum he should limit his contacts for 3 weeks.See a lover or a few friends? Sure.,if they are willing to take the risk

But the evening the thermometer shows he's got a temperature that means he also had it earlier that day .So he needs to get on the phone to the 20 people he'd spent time with and warn them to start taking their temperature. .

And not take the A train ...

Since my knowledge of

Aaron Carine — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:29:47 +0000

In reply to Another Halloween story?

Since my knowledge of medicine is virtually nil, I can't say whether quarantine is appropriate.

His 2004 keynote speech was a

Flavius — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 13:08:23 +0000

In reply to Speaking of TPM, I just went

His 2004 keynote speech was a breath of fresh air (trite expression but so what). While he was still speaking my son in law included me in an email that only said " Obama rocks"..

Just a speech, of course.But the best one I'd heard since Eugene McCarthy at the convention in 1960.

In 2006 I bought Dreams from my Father from a bookstore in Newport Vt.The proprietor ,and I'm sure owner, said "So you want to read about our next president" and I was taken aback. That didn't seem possible.

I was actually thrilled in Sept of 2008 when he addressed a rally in Berlin. The camera was focused on the enthusiastic crowd and then it picked him up walking , apparently casually from back stage up to the mike. I thought: You know , we're going to do it. This racist country is going to elect a black president.

We did and I was proud of us. For the first time in decades.

Since then.

I've described him here as a "good enough" president. I wonder whether that's really accurate but I guess so. Certainly a good human being. Not a good administrator - he went to the Law School not the B School.and it shows. Oddly, he reminds me of David Brooks. Instincts OK but in over his head in the job.

I wish he were better but he's the best president we've got at the minute so I'm still glad we elected him.