Never mind.
Good news, America: Ebola Panic has been cured. The actual disease is still ravaging West Africa, mind you, but the deep concern that Ebola was coming to kill us all has diminished considerably.
At least in Republican newsletters.
In the past two months, 69 percent of all e-newsletters have a Republican author. Even after accounting for differences in total amounts of e-newsletters sent, however, Republicans are nearly 2.5 times more likely to write to constituents about Ebola than Democrats. That is, on average messages sent by Republicans reference Ebola 24 percent of the time, while messages sent by Democrats only reference Ebola 10 percent of the time. [...]
There are also interesting partisan differences in the temporal patterns of e-newsletters referencing Ebola. [...] Nearly half of all Republican messages were about Ebola in the two weeks preceding the midterm elections, followed by a precipitous decline.
I Am Not a Scientist, as the popular saying goes, but that is curious. The only conclusion I can come to is that Obama's new Ebola czar, who presided over the complete elimination of Ebola in this country, has done such a masterful job that Republicans and Democrats came together in praise of his accomplishment. He'll be getting a medal as soon as John Boehner can remember his name.
There it is, then: Ebola has become a non-issue now that the midterm elections are over. And that is how we get Fox News pivoting from OMG Ebola to stories about how fighting Ebola in all those other countries is an inexcusable waste of money. Election's over, everyone. Problem solved.