Ebola!

PaladinTom wrote:
Prederick wrote:

Oy.

Called it.

She looked and sounded genuinely annoyed that the egghead scientist was not playing into her hysterical ploy.

NormanTheIntern wrote:

Seems reasonable - the latest out ex-Africa case is a Spanish healthcare worker, though.

Hospitals always have a baseline level of occupational exposure - needlestick injuries, splashes, that kind of thing. In theory people should be taking more precautions with these patients but fatigue/fear also makes people screw up more often.

Malor wrote:

Africa's having so much trouble because of multiple factors

Quite right with those, and also:

* A (moderately justified) distrust of their government institutions
* Poor information availability/transmission leading to the spreading of rumours about bogus cures and that foreigners are deliberately spreading the disease

Shoal07 wrote:

Media sucks. Fear works.

You see the same thing with shark attacks - enormously unlikely to actually happen to a given person, but always makes it into the news because it's viscerally scary.

@AdamBaldwin wondered aloud what hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want Ebola in America?

Quintin_Stone wrote:

@AdamBaldwin wondered aloud what hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want Ebola in America?

As much hard evidence that Adam Baldwin didn't pay the guy with it in Dallas to bring it into the country?

Stengah wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

@AdamBaldwin wondered aloud what hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want Ebola in America?

As much hard evidence that Adam Baldwin didn't pay the guy with it in Dallas to bring it into the country?

I would like hard evidence that Adam Baldwin doesn't eat children to gain their life essence.

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Gorilla.800.lbs wrote:

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I stared at this for a good 20 seconds trying to figure out whether it was real or not until I saw "TheLaughterHouse" in the footer.

Prederick wrote:

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Oy.

Gevalt.

Did they just use the "Dark Souls of" meme?

Dupe

DSGamer wrote:
Prederick wrote:

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Oy.

Gevalt.

Did they just use the "Dark Souls of" meme?

The X of < category > is much older than Dark Souls. The Cadillac of < category > is just one example.

NY Times[/url]]“The Cadillac of such-and-such” became such a popular form of praise in the late ’40s and ’50s that even advertisers of relatively small-ticket items borrowed the brand name to bask in its reflected glory. Hillquist sold “the Cadillac of all trim saws,” a Huffy children’s bicycle was “the Cadillac of the sand-pile set,” Rock-Ola was “the Cadillac of phonographs” and so on.

See also: the Cadillac of minivans.

Stengah wrote:
DSGamer wrote:
Prederick wrote:

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Oy.

Gevalt.

Did they just use the "Dark Souls of" meme?

The X of < category > is much older than Dark Souls. The Cadillac of < category > is just one example.

NY Times[/url]]“The Cadillac of such-and-such” became such a popular form of praise in the late ’40s and ’50s that even advertisers of relatively small-ticket items borrowed the brand name to bask in its reflected glory. Hillquist sold “the Cadillac of all trim saws,” a Huffy children’s bicycle was “the Cadillac of the sand-pile set,” Rock-Ola was “the Cadillac of phonographs” and so on.

Or if you like Elmore Leonard and his excellent work "Get Shorty", you can have "the Cadillac of minivans".

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Just to be clear, I'm aware that Dark Souls wasn't the beginning of that meme. Just my favorite current example.

Tanglebones wrote:

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Helz yeah! Snoop is the Cadillac of contract killers.

"He meant Lexus, but he don't know it...". Awesome quote.

Paleocon wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:

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Helz yeah! Snoop is the Cadillac of contract killers.

The Lexus is the Cadillac of car metaphors.

This topic is the Darksiders of derails.

I haven't gotten a chance to listen to it yet, but this episode of This Week in Virology back in August was dedicated to Ebola and is supposed to be very good.

NormanTheIntern wrote:

Robear he went to the hospital puking with a high fever, told them he came from a country with ebola. They gave him a z pack and put him back into circulation. I think you're talking about the airport screening, which is a different issue.

I was, yeah, sorry.

He presented with a fever and abdominal pain, not vomiting, according to the hospital. However, the intake nurse and his doctor had full access to what he told the nurse and his symptoms, and none of them picked up on the "recently visited Liberia" bit. Which is a mistake, if understandable. (As the saying goes in the US, when you hear hoofbeats, it's more likely to be horses than zebras.)

I doubt any hospital in the country would make that mistake today.

Paleocon wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:

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Helz yeah! Snoop is the Cadillac of contract killers.

"He meant Lexus, but he don't know it...". Awesome quote.

I've always liked how understanding Snoop is regarding the hardware guy's lameness.

The media would be performing a more valuable service by devoting 24 hours to Snoop than continuing to go on about Ebola.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

The media would be performing a more valuable service by devoting 24 hours to Snoop than continuing to go on about Ebola.

That's a low bar considering that the media would literally be performing a more valuable service by devoting 24 hours to transmitting white noise. At least that wouldn't actively harm anyone.

Yonder wrote:
SpacePPoliceman wrote:

The media would be performing a more valuable service by devoting 24 hours to Snoop than continuing to go on about Ebola.

That's a low bar considering that the media would literally be performing a more valuable service by devoting 24 hours to transmitting white noise. At least that wouldn't actively harm anyone.

Clearly you're unfamiliar with poltergeists.

Seth wrote:
Yonder wrote:
SpacePPoliceman wrote:

The media would be performing a more valuable service by devoting 24 hours to Snoop than continuing to go on about Ebola.

That's a low bar considering that the media would literally be performing a more valuable service by devoting 24 hours to transmitting white noise. At least that wouldn't actively harm anyone.

Clearly you're unfamiliar with poltergeists.

Is there any hard evidence Obama isn't trying to get poltergeists to haunt our houses?

The Wire was the best. Though they had a tendency to kill off your favorite characters just as you started really liking them. Sort of Game of Thrones before Game of Thrones.

Paleocon wrote:

The Wire was the best. Though they had a tendency to kill off your favorite characters just as you started really liking them. Sort of Game of Thrones before Game of Thrones.

The Wire didnt come out until 6 years after the first book!

Yeah, certainly white noise would be better than Ebola, but little is better than Snoop.

I just realized what my dream job would be. Sitting in on a handful of these talk shows every day with a rolled up newspaper and bopping the talking heads on the nose every time they get too stupid, incompetent, or malicious.

To mix it up I would occasionally squirt them in the face with a spray bottle instead.

Yonder wrote:

I just realized what my dream job would be. Sitting in on a handful of these talk shows every day with a rolled up newspaper and bopping the talking heads on the nose every time they get too stupid, incompetent, or malicious.

To mix it up I would occasionally squirt them in the face with a firehose instead.

FTFM

Am I the only one who immediately tries to contextualize the thread title as the name of a new Broadway musical?

Al wrote:

Am I the only one who immediately tries to contextualize the thread title as the name of a new Broadway musical?

No.