(1) "Fearing Ebola, some US communities take dramatic steps"

A teacher from Maine was placed on three-weeks paid leave because she'd traveled to Texas for a conference -- where she'd stayed in a hotel 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the hospital in which the first case of the virus was diagnosed in the United States.

A Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer was uninvited from speaking at a journalism school, because he'd gone to Ebola hotspot Liberia, even though he'd been back 21 days and was showing no symptoms.

And a group of Mississippi parents pulled their kids from school because the principal recently traveled to Africa -- though he'd been to a completely different part of the continent from where the Ebola epidemic is wreaking havoc.

In each case, parents or officials involved say they were acting out of an abundance of caution."

http://news.yahoo.com/fearing-ebola-us-c...-152044339.html

(2) "A toxic president"

"Chalk it up to karma, fate or bad luck. Whatever you call it, the Ebola scare is proof that Bad Things Happen to Bad Presidents.

The morphing of what is a single case into near panic is, according to medical experts, unwarranted. They point out that, so far, one person from Liberia died in a Texas hospital and two nurses who treated him got sick. Period, end of panic.

In rational and medical terms, they may be right. But their calculations omit another factor. It’s the X factor.

In this case, X stands for trust.

President Obama has spent six years squandering it, and the administration’s confusion, contradictions and mistakes on Ebola fit the pattern. This is how he rolls.

Don’t worry, there’s no chance of an outbreak, they said. Then it was, Oops, we must rethink all procedures for handling cases. Then there was no worry about a “wide” outbreak, yet quarantines for lots of people.

The irrational fear of an alien pathogen is fueled by rational suspicion of an incompetent and dishonest government. How did the so-called experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention give Nurse No. 2 permission to travel by air, even though she had a mild fever?

That’s a great question — if only the CDC would answer it. “I have not seen the transcript of the conversation,” was Director Thomas Frieden’s lame answer.

Meanwhile, the most obvious move, a travel ban from affected countries, is rejected with unpersuasive claims about the need to get aid workers to Africa. It looks and smells like political correctness searching for logic.

There isn’t any logic, so bet your hazmat suit a ban will happen soon. It’ll be one way for the new Ebola czar to make a mark.

But it will take a miracle worker to restore Barack Obama’s credibility. While there are many things to say about his tenure, the one thing you cannot say is that the nation trusts him.

Poll after poll, on subject after subject, show a collapse. Consistently now, a majority of Americans say Obama is not trustworthy. Most think he’s a failure, many say he is incompetent and the vast bulk — 70 percent in some cases — says his key policies are wrong for America.

He is so unpopular that members of his own party don’t want to be seen with him, lest his failures spawn a political plague."

http://nypost.com/2014/10/19/a-toxic-president/

Michael Goodwin, author of story 2, is obviously no fan of Barack Obama. But he is quite correct when he points out only the most devout Obamaniac believes anything the guy says or trust whatever policies he's proposing for Ebola or much else. Everything his administration says and does is intended to cover his rectum, is for political correctness, or both. He is one sorry character.