Ebola Can make You Dumb
Well, it happened. It finally happened and right wing fanatics from Florida to Arizona fell to their knees and gave thanks to a God who has made their wildest dreams come true. Yes, Ebola is here. It has finally been detected in one person in Dallas. That nut case Congressman who has spent the last three months invading airports all over the country preaching the danger of all those immigrants flooding over our Mexican border carrying this dread disease has finally seen his dream come true. Governor Rick Perry screamed his thanks to the heavens and broadcast far and wide how his calling out of the National Guard had finally been justified. Now the nation would know that our border with Mexico was truly under invasion, that not only were wetbacks streaming into our country but they were indeed carrying that dread disease——— what? You’re kidding. They aren’t?.
This guy didn’t come across the border. He came in a plane, through customs and Homeland Security? He came from Liberia, by way of Amsterdam, London and on to Dallas? There is no God.
At least one institution, the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital hasn’t been paying any attention to their half-wit governor, or much else. The patient went to that hospital when he realized that he had a fever, told them that he was sick and that he had just come from Liberia and they paid exactly no attention to him.
The media, especially in Texas, has been screaming about the danger of this epidemic coming here day and night, ever since it sprang up in Africa. Of course the biggest noise in Texas was about it coming over the border, carried by all those African kids from Honduras. So nobody at this hospital considered that maybe since they had a guy who just got off a plane from Africa and had a fever, that maybe, just maybe, they should take a slightly closer look. But no, this guy, after all, hadn’t come across the border from Mexico where everyone had been telling them the plague would be coming from, so they gave him a pat on the head told him to take two aspirin and call them in the morning. Luckily this guy’s nephew was smarter than the hospital personnel and he called the CDC, who jumped right on it.
So the CDC has operators tracing all the people who might have had even tertiary contact with this guy and they are doing all the stuff that they should be doing to contain this problem but despite their best efforts there are still people like Chris Matthews and Joy-Ann Reid screaming in panic on their shows, attacking doctors who are in a studio somewhere and can’t do anything but talk to them and spreading a general sense of panic, something that we really don’t need. If you are frightened, Chris and Joy-Ann you have the means to flee to the North Pole where the virus probably won’t spread.
Of course there are people who can do something that have not. Guess who? Why the loud mouth who is currently the governor of Texas, the moronic, incompetent Rick Perry. After all the noise that Perry has made about this and all the misinformation that this idiot has spread, he finally has a chance to do something constructive. The removal of contaminated waste material is being held up at the apartment where this man from Liberia was staying. The people who live in that apartment have been forced to live in this awful mess for almost a week now all because a permit is needed from the Department of Transportation to move this kind of contaminated waste.
Rick Perry is the god damn governor. If anyone could facilitate this process it’s him, but oh no. He’d rather be making speeches about how the President isn’t protecting us from a disease instead of doing something constructive about helping contain it. Perry couldn’t be dumber or less constructive if he were twins. Get off your ass, Rick, get that permit and get that contaminated material out of that apartment complex and into a burn facility where it can be destroyed. Being a governor has some perks, besides the payoff money. Even you must understand that