Two Pandemics: Ebola and Mass Insanity

by Tom Kando

The spread of Ebola scares me. We now have the first  US case - Thomas Eric Duncan, who recently returned to Dallas from Liberia.

My friend  Carol Anita Ryan explains on  Facebook what R∘ means: It is the number of people that one sick person will infect (on average). For example, Measles has an R∘ of 18 (very contagious), whereas Ebola’s R∘ is only 2.  Even so, this means that the disease doubles in a  given period of time. An Ebola victim  has about 100 contacts  before he is isolated. 2 out of these contacts become sick and  98 don’t. Let’s say it takes one week  for the number of infected people to double. Now consider an  exponential curve that doubles every week: 2,4,8,16,32,64,128, etc. If it starts with 2 cases at the beginning of October  and doubles every week, it  reaches 536,870,912  - 2 to the 29th power -   by early April. By next April, everyone in North America is  dead, and the entire world a month after that.
Nonsense, you say. Sure.

So, rather than horrifying you with idiotic numerical games,  I’ll  talk about another pandemic - one which IS ALREADY HERE :

On October 3, Olivier Knox published an article in the Yahoo News titled:
US Officials Acknowledge ‘Missteps’ in Dallas but Defend Ebola Response. There Will Be No Outbreak in the United States, They Say in White House Briefing.

The thousands of responses to this article were shocking. The vast majority immediately switched tacks and spouted off vitriolic hatred for: (1) President Obama,  (2) “the” government and  (3) democrats/liberals.

The comments had NOTHING to do with Ebola. In the minds of these people,  there is only one bogeyman - the Obama/Government/Liberal Complex. They hold this complex responsible for EVERY imaginable problem - hurricanes,  droughts,  war, poverty, ISIS beheadings,  now the spread of Ebola.

I don’t know whether we will suffer an Ebola epidemic, but  the pandemic of mass political insanity, delusion, paranoia and conspiratorial thinking IS already here.  These thousands of demented  comments on Yahoo are  probably just the tip of the iceberg. Millions of  Americans have gone over the edge. Here is  a tiny  sample:

John: This is another step in Population Control. It is Much easier to control a Smaller population. If someone digs deep enough I am sure that the U.S. Government Manufactured this and other large outbreaks of death and destruction.

Disgusted:  IF IT WASN'T FOR   ho bamas PLAN TO ALLOW IT TO COME HERE WE WOULDN'T HAVE IT HERE. LOCK DOWN AFRICA AND LET THEM DIE IN THEIR OWN FILTH AND  ANIMALISTIC OVER BREEDING

Commenter : Our grubbermint BREEDS liars and cheats!! that is why honest people can't get involved.

Gary Walker: These people are not incompetent, this is their plan.

T.: Obama said  the risks of an Ebola out break were extremely low. I believed him. I believed him when he said I could keep my insurance.  I believed  him when he said that ISIS beheadings are work place violence. I am a Obama voter and I am stupid.

Texan: on facebook liberals are posting that there are more issues that are worse, like cancer.  A vote for a democrat leader is for someone who thinks this way. They  think a death by bleeding out of every pore isn't a crisis for Americans. Liberals ought to be made to take care of Africa instead of our soldiers. Do you really think a man who uses marines to hold an umbrella for him and salutes with his coffee  has respect for our military? I wonder if he is laughing as he sends our troops there. If he is willing to send someone's kid, then  he should send his own.

Vassar: ...as Obama has done a 1000 times, we will continue on out course toward national death.

Melvin: BS we don't owe other country's anything, they owe us, most have never came up with their pledges made in the last few conflicts. How in the hell do they think it grew into an epidemic in Africa ?  "THINK ABOUT IT" full blown democratic Obama led corruption at a time 30 day's out to mid term elections.

Robert: The Oblammer administration (to use the term loosely) stopped flights to Israel because they were fighting the Palestinians, but wont stop flights from West Africa. Are we all stupid? We should all just stay home for the next month, don't go to work  and on November 4th vote out every incumbent...and for god sake and the sake of your children don't elect Killery to anything but a free trip out of town.

Andrew: One step closer for the muslim brotherhood taking over our country, get Obama out now.

Edgar: WHAT ABOUT ALL THE "PROMISES" OBAMA MADE TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT LOST THEIR HOMES. DO TO HURRICAN "SANDY".  THAT'S ALL "OBAMA" DOES IS LIE AND MAKE CAMPHAIGN SPEECHES/PROMISES THAT "HE" HAS NO INTENTION OF KEEPING...IF YOU LIKE YOUR "HEALTH PLAN" YOU CAN KEEP IT " PERIOD ".... ANYBODY STUPID ENOUGH TO VOTE FOR OBAMA , "SHOULD" GET EBOLA.

Major Tom: Everything this buffoon touches turns to #$%$ now the stench is overwhelming .... The court jester of the Free world !!

Robert M.:  The village idiot is smarter, he has an I.Q. of an inflated basketball.

And thousands more like this, none making any sense. Millions have  lost their  mind.

Here is  a theory which I freely give to all these folks, for their enjoyment:   Obama was elected by a cabal of African-Americans and their  lefty allies, so as to take revenge for slavery.  Their plan is now being carried out: Genocide and the extermination of all Americans, through the introduction of the African Ebola. This was their plan all along. Remember the reverend Jeremiah Wright and his “God Damn America” speech? It all adds up, doesn’t it?

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