Comment Re:Perspective (Score 2) 135
It's funny how our media chooses something a few times a year that can tell a story and scare the public. Usually it's something from overseas, that we have to start behaving differently and checking on people coming across the border to prevent.
I just heard a story of some moron who yelled "I have Ebola" on an airplane, and they sent him back home. Why the overreaction? Is someone shouting nonsense MORE likely to have a disease after they say; "just kidding?" than the person next to them on the plane? How about people who get sick of stupid TSA nonsense and act out?
If someone shouted "I have C dificile" on a plane, everyone would say; "sit down and shut up?" Right, nothing would happen. It's almost as dangerous as someone shouting "I have the flu" that kills even more people each year but it's already here -- not something on a plane that requires a background check. Ebola and Al Qaeda are just the latest Pavlovian words that we must respect, otherwise someone needs to over react. It's OK that more Americans die each year from coal pollution or police shootings -- as long as it isn't the "bad guys" from over there. We blow up thousands and a few people get beheaded on TV and everyone MUST DO SOMETHING -- let's spend another trillion dollars without question.
It's so damn old and tired now how like clockwork, we get scared about some existential threat each fall. It's like our local TV stations pretending they've got hard hitting news and investigating a strip club, or the mechanic who replaces your old auto part with another old auto part and RIPS YOU OFF! Ignore the over draft fees from the bank and the hundred and one overpayments you make to a monopoly.
I don't know if this is a plan to distract us, or just an organic process of brain dead 24 hours news chasing the last safe stories that don't hurt the feelings of a paying sponsor -- but it damn sure seems the stay away from topics of real interest regardless of whether they are paid to or not.