Did Republicans overshoot on the Ebola panic?

GOP candidates have pounded the big red panic button. What if they look like Chicken Little come Election Day?

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Prescient article from two weeks ago......


http://theweek.com/article/index/270373/%3Cimg%20src=%22http:/media.theweek.com/img/generic/GallupEbola2.png%22%20alt=%22%22%3E

"But here's the thing about pounding the big red panic button: What if nothing happens?

Duncan died in the U.S., but he's the only one so far. His fiancée and everyone who came in contact with him before he was hospitalized have been declared Ebola-free. The first nurse he infected, Pham, was just upgraded to good condition from fair, and Vinson's mother says her daughter is already testing negative for the virus. Freelance NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, who contracted the virus in Liberia, was released from Nebraska Medical Center on Wednesday, making him the fifth person who has recovered after being treated in the U.S.

The CDC has issued new advisory guidelines for U.S. hospitals — it can't force them to adopt the new safeguards — and the Department of Homeland Security has beefed up West African passenger screening, directing all passengers from affected areas to pass through five U.S. airports. All visitors from the affected nations will be monitored for 21 days. Hospitals will be better prepared for the next Ebola patient, assuming there is one.

Even the seriously dire outbreak in West Africa could have numbered days. On Wednesday, Elhadj As Sy, secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, predicted that the Ebola pandemic could be contained in four to six months.

There's always the slim possibility that the experts are wrong, or some accident of history or biology allows Ebola to enter the U.S. and spread like wildfire. If it does that before the Nov. 4 election, Republicans will look pretty prescient. If nothing new happens in the U.S. in the next two weeks, they'll look mildly delirious, or at least prone to hysteria. Even some prominent Republicans are finding it politically (and practically) expedient to distance themselves from the Ebola fearmongering, including ebola Governor Christie."

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This was an analysis before nurse Kaci Hickox blew the lid off the media and GOP all-in on fear mongering....."will voters make those that cried wolf" pay is still the same question as it was two weeks ago.