The GOP's Ebola braintrust
Scott Brown is not going to let
being totally embarrassed on statewide television by Wolf Blitzer stop him from making even more
totally ridiculous statements about Ebola. No, he's on a roll, and he wants all of New Hampshire to share his panic. The Republican Senate candidate is sounding the alarm about "mass infection."
"The way to stop mass infection is by swift and decisive action, including a travel ban and quarantining health workers returning from countries where Ebola is prevalent," Brown said in a statement. "This is not a time for political correctness; it's a time for common-sense prevention mechanisms." […]
"Ebola has now spread to New York City, the largest city in the United States and less than 300 miles from New Hampshire," Brown said. "The person who brought it there passed through enhanced screening at the airport and exposed himself to countless other people by riding the subway, taking a taxi and going bowling. Still, Senator Shaheen is waffling on a travel ban."
You guys!!!! Ebola is LESS THAN 300 MILES AWAY!!! MASS EPIDEMIC!!! Never mind that it's only been half a dozen people in the U.S. and that only one person has died and that most of them, including
one of the nurses who took care of the one person who died, have gotten better.
It's almost enough to make Sen. Rand Paul's "cocktail party Ebola" sound like a reasonable fear in comparison.
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Oh, and that travel ban? It's not a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of the experts (who Brown
may or may not believe in, he apparently hasn't decided yet) who uniformly say the travel ban would do
more harm than good at this point. But Scott Brown has a script. It's far too much to ask him to learn a new one that makes sense.