Top 5 Halloween Bad Taste Award Winners
Posted: November 1, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Bad Taste, Cigarettes, Costumes, Ebola, Halloween, Jack O'Lantern, Kool Aid, Pranks, Soviet Union, Whiskey | 2 Comments# 1 CIGARETTE BABY COSTUME
#2 EBOLA VIRUS COSTUME
#3 FAT GUY KOOL AID COSTUME
#4 JACK DANIELS AND MARLBORO FATHER & SON COSTUMES
#5 SOVIET JACK-‘O-LANTERN CARVING
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The Nurse Protests: ‘Maine is Apparently Considering Making its Self-Quarantining Guidelines Slightly Less Voluntary’
Posted: October 29, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Science & Technology, U.S. News | Tags: Ebola, Hickox, Hot Air, Human rights, Kaci Hickox, Noah Rothman, Nurse, Quarantine | 1 CommentNoah Rothman writes: This should be perfectly intuitive for anyone who has had even fleeting exposure to human nature, but it is easy to suspect that an administration that reflexively bleats “science” in lieu of a cogent argument may lack the requisite experience to know that people will instinctively resist internment.
The media appeared certain that they had in nurse Kaci Hickox a figure they could transform into a victim of the imperious bully Chris Christie when she was involuntarily quarantined after returning to the United States from West Africa where she aided Ebola victims. In creating an object of pity out of Hickox, the press perhaps believed they could take some of the heat off of President Barack Obama who, in opposing the quarantining of those returning from West Africa, is on the wrong side of 80 percent of the public just days before a national election. Read the rest of this entry »
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Pre-Ebola Pulp Fiction: ‘Prison Nurse: A Young Woman in an Underworld of Men’
Posted: October 27, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Art & Culture, Mediasphere, Reading Room | Tags: Books, Crime fiction, design, Drug Addicts, Ebola, Global Panic, Illustration, Mystery, Noir fiction, Nurse, Obamacare, Paperback, Patients, pulp fiction, Thriller, typography | Leave a commentRate this:
NY Post Front Page ‘EBOWLER: Pols Get Silly to Nix Viral Fears’ Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014
Posted: October 26, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Ebola, Global Panic, media, New York City, New York Post, Newspapers, Tabloid | 2 CommentsRate this:
NY Post :’ENEMY WITHIN’ Oct. 25, 2014
Posted: October 24, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Ax Man, Ebola, Global Panic, Islam, Jihad, media, New York City, New York Post, news, Quarantine, Tabloid | 1 CommentRate this:
EBOLA HERE! NY Post Cover Oct. 24th, 2014
Posted: October 24, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Ebola, Global Panic, media, New York City, New York Post, Tabloid | 1 Comment
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Bottle of Whiskey with Some News On Top
Posted: October 23, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Humor, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Advertising, Amazon, Ebola, Gender Gap, Global Panic, Gucci, Johnny Walker, Luxury, media, Newspapers, Syria, Wall Street Journal, Whiskey | Leave a commentRate this:
New York Doctor Tests Positive for Ebola
Posted: October 23, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Health and Social Issues, U.S. News | Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Bellevue Hospital Center, Ebola, Ebola virus disease, Guinea, Liberia, New York City, Sierra Leone, Thursday, West Africa | Leave a commentA physician with Doctors Without Borders who returned to New York City after treating Ebola victims in West Africa has tested positive for the virus
Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, developed a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms after working for the humanitarian organization in Guinea, one of three West African nations hardest hit by Ebola.
“De Blasio said earlier on Thursday that Spencer had been in direct contact with ‘very few’ people. However, the Times said Spencer traveled by subway to a bowling alley in the city’s Brooklyn borough on Wednesday night and took a taxi home.”
A specially trained team wearing protective gear transported Spencer to Bellevue Hospital from his Manhattan apartment, the city said in a statement.
The first confirmed case in America’s largest city set off renewed fears about the spread of the virus, which has killed nearly 4,900 people, largely in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
The first person diagnosed with Ebola on U.S. soil flew from Liberia to Texas and later died in a Dallas hospital. Two nurses who treated him became infected with the virus and one took a commercial flight with a fever, prompting officials in several states to take steps to become better prepared to contain the virus. Read the rest of this entry »
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BREAKING: Homeland Security Announces Travel Restrictions to Stall Ebola Outbreak
Posted: October 21, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Health and Social Issues, Politics | Tags: Department of Homeland Security, Ebola, Global Panic, Guinea, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Liberia, Sierre Leone, Travel Restrictions | Leave a commentFlights between the U.S. and Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea will now require additional screenings
For National Journal, Sarah Mimms reports: October 21, 2014 Travelers flying between West African nations affected by Ebola and the United States will now be subject to additional screenings and “protective measures” to help prevent the disease from spreading into the U.S., the Homeland Security Department announced Tuesday.
“We are continually evaluating whether additional restrictions or added screening and precautionary measures are necessary to protect the American people and will act accordingly.”
All passengers flying from Sierre Leone, Liberia, and Guinea into the U.S. will be required to enter the country through five major airports: Dulles International Airport in Virginia; John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York; Newark Liberty International Airport; Chicago O’Hare International Airport; and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Read the rest of this entry »
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Pentagon Plans Ebola Domestic-Response Team of Medical Experts to Aid Doctors
Posted: October 20, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Health and Social Issues, U.S. News, War Room | Tags: Anthony Fauci, Chuck Hagel, Dallas, Ebola, Ebola virus disease, Fort Sam Houston, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Pentagon, World Health Organization | 1 CommentThe Pentagon announced Sunday that it will create a 30-person team of medical experts that could quickly leap into a region if new Ebola cases emerge in the United States, providing support for civilian doctors who lack proficiency in fighting the deadly virus.
“Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared on the Sunday talk shows, noting that there are just four medical facilities — in Maryland, Nebraska, Montana and Georgia — that are equipped to treat Ebola patients.”
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered the Pentagon’s Northern Command, which has a prime focus on protecting homeland security, to send this new team to Fort Sam Houston in Texas for high-level preparations to respond to any additional Ebola cases beyond the three confirmed in the country.
The announcement came as federal health officials tried to calm the nerves of Americans rattled by Ebola’s arrival on U.S. soil. In Texas, dozens of health workers and others who came in contact with the lone man to die in the United States from Ebola are in the final stage of an emotional three-week isolation from the public, hoping that by early this week they can resume their lives if they show no hint of the virus.
“We need to have more than just the four in which you have people who are pre-trained so that you don’t come in and that’s the first time that you start thinking about it.”
— Anthony Fauci on NBC’s Meet the Press
“To be on the safe side, we stay home. . . . In my community, people used to come in and out of my house. Because of all the news [about Ebola], no one comes around,” Aaron Yah said in a telephone interview from his two-bedroom Dallas apartment, where he and his wife, Youngor Jallah, and their four children have cloistered themselves, skipping work and school until health officials assure them they are safe.
Jallah’s mother was engaged to Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died Oct. 8 in a Dallas hospital. “People don’t have education about it, and if they knew we didn’t touch anything [in her apartment], maybe they be different,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Obama’s 4 Stages of Crisis Management
Posted: October 19, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Bobby Jindal, Crisis management, Democrats, Ebola, Global Panic, GOP, Obama | 1 Comment
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Reality Check: Is an Ebola Flight Ban a Good Idea? Nate Silver Doesn’t Think So
Posted: October 18, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Global, Health and Social Issues, The Butcher's Notebook, Think Tank | Tags: Africa, Dakar, Dallas, Ebola, Lagos, Liberia, Nate Silver, Sierra Leone, Travel ban, United State, West Africa | 1 CommentIt’s exceedingly rare that I agree with an Obama administration decision (though the decision is infirm, and could be weaseled any way the wind blows over the next several weeks) but the increasing calls to impose an Africa travel ban strike me as reflexive, not founded on proven disease strategy. Unlike a lot of bellyaching conservatives, and a handful of election-panicked Democrats, I’m not convinced that declining to respond to pressure to impose a travel ban is a bad thing. And I don’t think it’s motivated purely by narrow political or economic interests. That said, I don’t claim to be informed enough to have a clear opinion either way. So this morning I saw this, and thought it might be useful reading.
Nate Silver writes:
On Sept. 19, Thomas Eric Duncan boarded a flight in Monrovia, Liberia, possibly after having lied on a screening questionnaire about his contact with persons carrying the Ebola virus. The next day, Duncan arrived in Dallas to visit his fiancée and son. Initially complaining of a fever, Duncan would soon become the first person in the United States diagnosed with Ebola. Before dying of the disease on Oct. 8, Duncan would transmit it to two nurses, Nina Pham and Amber Vinson, who treated him at Dallas Presbyterian Hospital.
Duncan’s case has sparked calls to ban flights to the United States from the countries hardest hit by the recent Ebola outbreak — Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone — possibly along with others in West Africa. While some of these arguments have been measured, others seem to convey the impression there are thousands of passengers arriving in cities like Dallas each day from flights originating in these countries.
There aren’t. We searched on Kayak.com, ExpertFlyer.com and airline websites for direct flights from West African nations (as the United Nations defines the region) to destinations outside the African continent. Specifically, we looked for flights available for the week from Jan. 2 to Jan. 8, 2015, a time period far enough in advance that such flights are unlikely to have sold out.
There are no regularly scheduled direct flights to the U.S. from Liberia, Guinea or Sierra Leone — and very few from other countries in West Africa. There are far more flights from West Africa to Western Europe instead. Duncan’s case was typical. Before arriving in the United States, he connected through Brussels.
Here are all the routes we identified:
Our search may be missing a few flights here and there, but it ought to be reasonably comprehensive, especially for travel to and from the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
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WHOOPS! Sorry About that Ebola Outbreak! New York Post Cover, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014
Posted: October 17, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Ebola, Global Panic, New York City, New York Post | 3 CommentsRate this:
[PHOTO] Richard M. Nixon Wants to Know
Posted: October 16, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Ebola, Global Panic, Lyndon Johnson, Photography, Richard Nixon | 1 CommentRate this:
[VIDEO] Center for Disease Control: Ebola Spreading in Africa Would Be ‘Threat to U.S. Health System for Long Time to Come’
Posted: October 16, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Health and Social Issues | Tags: Africa, Ebola, Ebola virus disease, Iraq, Kenema, Sierra Leone, United States | Leave a comment“I will tell you, as the director of CDC, one of the things I fear about Ebola is that it could spread more widely in Africa. If this were to happen, it could become a threat to our health system, and the health care we give, for a long time to come.”
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New York Post Cover ‘AIR EBOLA: Frantic Hunt for 132 Passengers’ Oct. 16th 2014
Posted: October 16, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: CDC, Ebola, Global Panic, media, New York Post, Newspaper, Tabloid | 1 CommentRate this:
‘For God’s Sake, Get a Grip’: An Early Look at Tomorrow’s New York Daily News Front Page
Posted: October 15, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Dallas, Ebola, Global Panic, media, New York Daily News, Obama, Pandemic | 5 CommentsNew York Daily News on Twitter
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[VIDEO] EBOLA MAINA in Sierra Leone: Tear Gas Fired in Freetown After Body Left on Street
Posted: October 15, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Global, Health and Social Issues | Tags: BBC News, Democratic Party, Duncan Hunter, Ebola, Ebola virus, Freetown, Global Panic, Mexico–United States border, Sierra Leone, United States Department of Homeland Security | 2 CommentsPolice in Freetown, Sierra Leone, have fired tear gas as people took to the streets to complain about the authorities handling of the Ebola virus.
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They were angry that the body of a woman who died from the disease was left on the street for two days.US, British, French, German and Italian leaders are due to hold a video conference to talk about what to do next to prevent the spread of the disease.
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Desperation: Blaming Eboloa on…Who Else?
Posted: October 13, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Barack Obama, Ebola, Ebola virus disease, George W. Bush, Mark Warner, Nick Gillespie, Republican Party (United States), Virginia | Leave a commentBlaming Ebola on “Republican cuts” to health budgets isn’t accurate but it is desperate http://t.co/FKrXCBAfmv pic.twitter.com/wgitDj8uNB
— Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) October 13, 2014
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[VIDEO] Watch What Happened When a Joker on an Airplane said ‘I Have Ebola!’
Posted: October 9, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Global, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere | Tags: Africa, Diario Libre, Dominican Republic, Ebola, Flight attendant, Hazmat suit, Ministry of Health, US Airways | 2 CommentsFrom Gawker
A US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, was held upon landing yesterday after a sneezing passenger joked about having been to Africa.
“I have Ebola, you are all screwed,” the 54-year-old man said, according to the Dominican news site Diario Libre. Fox News reported he also screamed, “I’ve been to Africa!”
The director of operations of the airport in Punta Cana confirmed a medical team boarded the plane in hazmat suits and took the passenger to a separate medical health area, where he was examined and found not to have the lethal disease. The Ministry of Public Health also confirmed the scare was a false alarm…(read more)
The headline I shoulda thought of:
Hazmat teams remove jackass from plane. http://t.co/tqGkjxiK0r
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) October 10, 2014
From the YouTube description:
Once we landed in Punta Cana we were told by the flight attendants that there was a situation and that a passenger may have been in Africa and had Ebola. She was certain it was a hoax but they did not take any chances and had a full hazmat crew board the plane and take the passenger off. It was later confirmed that the passenger was never in Africa and after 2hrs we were finally able to get off the plane.
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(UPDATED) BREAKING: Sick Passenger Removed from United Flight by Medical Personnel in Hazmat Suits
Posted: October 4, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Health and Social Issues, U.S. News | Tags: Belgium, Brussels, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ebola, Hazmat suit, National Transportation Safety Board, New Jersey, Newark Liberty International Airport, United Airlines, West Africa | 1 CommentDEVELOPING: Medical personnel in hazmat suits at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport removed a sick passenger Saturday from a United Airlines flight that arrived from Brussels, Belgium…
UPDATE: Robert Wilde has this:
On Saturday at Newark Airport, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials rushed to meet with a United Airlines flight from Brussels and removed a passenger, believed to be from Liberia, suspected of having Ebola.
The CDC crew responded to flight 998 in full hazmat gear and took the man and his daughter to University Hospital in Newark for further evaluation. According to a senior federal official, the passenger was manifesting “flu-like symptoms.” The passenger was reportedly vomiting in the plane but did not exhibit other Ebola-like symptoms.
“He’s now being treated with protocols as if he has it, but no clear indication at this point that he does,” the official said. Read the rest of this entry »
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NY POST Cover August 5 2014: ‘CNN GAL BITES EMT!’ ‘EBOLA! Man Tested in NYC’
Posted: August 5, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere | Tags: CNN, Ebola, Ebola virus disease, Liberia, New York Post, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, United States, World Health Organization | 1 CommentNew York Post front page for Tuesday, August 5,….