Ebola Mania!

[The Foozzler]

With Ebola in NY, my news feed is quickly filling with unfounded hysteria, Obama hate, and racism.

Anyone have any ignorant gems to share?

[melmon0417]

Wow, so much ignorance in one newsfeed!

I like the one about controlling the population. Pretty sure that's my favorite thing I've heard yet.

[jfh]

Holy shit. People are insane.

[rubber pants]

Whoa.  She makes ME look good. 

[dixeedeluxe]

So, Nina Pham got out of the hospital in one week. She's, like, all better. Every time this happens it makes me so happy.

[skwcm80]

Not so much on my newsfeed, but a good chunk of my newsfeed is of West African descent. I did come across an anti-vaxer but that post seems to have been taken down.

[bigapple]

I haven't been on FB enough recently to see, but I did a pretty good job of blocking idiots during the last election cycle, so my feed is generally palatable.

[The Foozzler]

I do enjoy the comment about this being Obama's fault.

[dixeedeluxe]

I think Obama is holding his breath but I STILL LOVE YOU NINA!

[eav2c]

This has been my news feed for the last few weeks. Living in the south is fun sometimes

[The Foozzler]

Oct 27, 2014 10:26:27 GMT -5 @therealmc said:

Oct 27, 2014 10:16:50 GMT -5 The Foozzler said:

I do enjoy the comment about this being Obama's fault.

How did you black out their names?

I edited it on the pic stitch app

[bigapple]

Oct 27, 2014 10:28:51 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

I think Obama is holding his breath but I STILL LOVE YOU NINA!

Okay, I'll bite.  Who's Nina?

[dixeedeluxe]

She's the nurse from Texas who got it from the man that died (I forget his name). They transferred her to NIH for treatment, which is in Maryland. So that was the news here when "EBOLA CAME TO MARYLAND".

[eav2c]

Oct 27, 2014 10:33:08 GMT -5 bigapple said:

Oct 27, 2014 10:28:51 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

I think Obama is holding his breath but I STILL LOVE YOU NINA!

Okay, I'll bite.  Who's Nina?

First person to contract Ebola in the US.

[muppetinma]

So Obama is using ebola to control the population? That's a pretty inefficient way to do it, seeing as how the death toll in the US is one.

[AndyCohen]

Oct 27, 2014 10:16:50 GMT -5 The Foozzler said:

I do enjoy the comment about this being Obama's fault.

Not just that it's his fault but that he WANTS it to spread in the US. lol!

[bigapple]

Oct 27, 2014 10:34:42 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

She's the nurse from Texas who got it from the man that died (I forget his name). They transferred her to NIH for treatment, which is in Maryland. So that was the news here when "EBOLA CAME TO MARYLAND".

Ah, okay.  I only knew her as "the nurse from Texas."  

[bigapple]

Oct 27, 2014 10:37:44 GMT -5 AndyCohen said:

Oct 27, 2014 10:16:50 GMT -5 The Foozzler said:

I do enjoy the comment about this being Obama's fault.

Not just that it's his fault but that he WANTS it to spread in the US. lol!

Well, he is one of dem foreigners.  

[kkfeb04]

Wait so fatigue is a symptom? I have EBOLA! I'm not just a parent of two kids that don't really sleep?

People are a little ridunkulous.

[bigapple]

Oct 27, 2014 11:32:43 GMT -5 kkfeb04 said:

Wait so fatigue is a symptom? I have EBOLA! I'm not just a parent of two kids that don't really sleep?

People are a little ridunkulous.

And no one has ever been fatigued simply from a transcontinental flight.  Everyone's always perky as can be after a busy trip and a redeye back.  

[laurack]

to control population he'd be much better off statistically taking away our flu shots?

but then everyone would be like - I KNEW IT. those flu shots DID contain monkey brains and rotten fish heads all along and they are only finally admitting it. THANKS OBAMA.

[bigapple]

A client just brought me a beautiful hand-woven wall hanging from from Mali. IT'S PROBABLY A PLOY TO GIVE ME EBOLA!!!!


(conveniently ignoring the fact that there have been exactly the same number of cases in Mali and NYC)

[The Foozzler]

Tyler got sent home sick from school today with a fever. Should I be worried that he has Ebola? I don't think he's been to west Africa.

[mscatra]

Oct 27, 2014 16:27:12 GMT -5 The Foozzler said:

Tyler got sent home sick from school today with a fever. Should I be worried that he has Ebola? I don't think he's been to west Africa.

but he's been to new York!!!! EBOLA!!!!

[melmon0417]

Just watched this and had to share it... The difference between how the UK media covers Ebola, and how the USA media is handling it. Freaking hilarious.

8vid.tv/video/273/the-difference-between-uk-and-us-coverage-on-ebola-is-hilarious/

[jfh]

Oct 28, 2014 11:41:31 GMT -5 melmon0417 said:

Just watched this and had to share it... The difference between how the UK media covers Ebola, and how the USA media is handling it. Freaking hilarious.

8vid.tv/video/273/the-difference-between-uk-and-us-coverage-on-ebola-is-hilarious/

OMG that is hilarious. ASSFLAKES!!

[dixeedeluxe]

Our leadership fwds us her Google alert stories that involve SSA.  We got this today:

Social Security worker finds Ebola display offensive
Employee says she complained about it, got no response

By Erik Sandoval
[e-mail]
Published On: Oct 29 2014 11:00:00 PM EDT Updated

LAKE MARY, Fla. - Someone got into the Halloween spirit at work, but it's not a co-worker's treat. An employee at the Social Security Administration office in Lake Mary said she's offended by decorations that transformed a cubicle into a fake Ebola hospital ward.
The decorations include signs that read, "Ebola: The scariest character this Halloween."
Other signs that read "recovery room" and "patient's name undetermined" led to an area where a fake body is underneath a blanket, with a work computer decorated to look like a heart monitor.
"I thought this was way over the top," the worker told Local 6. "They're very detailed -- there's a hazmat suit and goggles and bloody plastic gloves."
The display is out of the view of the public, but the worker said that doesn't make it any less offensive. She said the timing just isn't right.
"I do know it's Halloween, but this is a very serious subject. I thought, 'People are dying from this,' and I don't find death very funny," she said.
She said she complained to her bosses, but no one responded and the decorations stayed up.
Local 6 contacted Patti Patterson, the regional communications director for the Social Security Administration, based in Atlanta. She said the decorations were put up in "bad judgment" and that they should be taken down by Thursday morning. She said Washington doesn't set rules when it comes to office decor. That is usually left up to each individual office.
In this case, she said the decision will be made for the office.