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applegrove

(118,501 posts) Sat Mar 19, 2016, 07:21 PM Mar 2016

Zika Virus Could Roil American Politics This Summer

Zika Virus Could Roil American Politics This Summer

https://politicalwire.com/2016/03/19/zika-virus-could-roil-american-politics-this-summer/

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“If brokered conventions and third-party insurgencies aren’t enough, consider the chaos that Zika could bring to the United States this summer,” Politico reports.

“If the mosquito-borne virus linked to birth defects hits big — and that’s a big if — it could stir a panic like Ebola, set off an epidemic of finger-pointing and create new fear and acrimony over reproductive rights, global warming and immigration, all at the height of a presidential campaign.”

“The disease is moving northward — it’s already in Cuba and Puerto Rico, which declared a public health emergency last month and froze the price of condoms. The mosquitoes that carry Zika are well-entrenched in some southern states and expected as far north as New York City by July.”

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Zika Virus Could Roil American Politics This Summer (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2016 OP

What will Trump say? "I've got a really big brain. I'll stop the Zika virus. The Wall will be a mile applegrove Mar 2016 #1

I kept warning people on Facebook about Ebola because I had been hearing about the new severe Jim Beard Mar 2016 #2

And Climate Change is a factor malaise Mar 2016 #3

Yup. I wonder who the GOP will scapegoat? Cause they will not be able applegrove Mar 2016 #4

They'll blame the gays, the blacks, the Mexicans malaise Mar 2016 #5

You forgot abortion. N/t Pakhet Mar 2016 #6

applegrove

(118,501 posts)

1. What will Trump say? "I've got a really big brain. I'll stop the Zika virus. The Wall will be a mile

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Mar 19, 2016, 07:22 PM

Mar 2016

high".

Jim Beard

(2,535 posts)

2. I kept warning people on Facebook about Ebola because I had been hearing about the new severe

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Mar 19, 2016, 07:29 PM

Mar 2016

outbreaks possible which was reported by Aljezeera America. No one in the US paid attention. I guess the republican governors will lock all people with mosquito bites to be locked in outhouses.