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[Jeff In Milwaukee]

Or on the other hand, what took them so long?

The right-wing crazy website inforwars.com is spinning a little tale about how the Obama Administration "transported" the Ebola Virus to the United States (the effected personnel were actually flown back to the U.S. using private funds) just days after signing an Executive Order "mandating the detention of Americans who show signs of respiratory illness." The article goes on to explain just how easily Ebola can spread, if it were in fact an entirely different disease with an entirely different pathology.

Infowars.com quotes a noted Epidemiologist stating that "one tear in a rubber glove, and the virus is loose." What's that? It wasn't a noted Epidemiologist? It was another columnist at inforwars.com? Well, I guess that saves on consulting fees.

And just to close the book on this episode of ass-hattery, the E.O. signed by Obama was an extension of an Order signed by George W. Bush that allows health officials to quarantine persons with highly infectious respiratory diseases. Two things of note: The original order from Bush included Ebola and...um...Ebola is not a respiratory disease.

Swing and a miss...