Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Thomas Frieden (l.) writes as President Obama speaks on Oct. 6 with members of his national security team and senior staff about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Kevin Lamarque, Reuters
Ebola Panic Is Worse Than the Disease -- Abby Haglage, Daily Beast
The only epidemic in the U.S. is an outbreak of fear-mongering. Everybody panicking when they get the flu will stretch the emergency system to a breaking point.
When the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. died Wednesday, any sense of calm that remained about the virus in America apparently went with him.
In the early coverage of Thomas Eric Duncan’s diagnosis, it was the discussion of Ebola’s “non-specific,” early symptoms—similar to those of the common cold—that struck a chord. Hours after these reports, one of which I published, the mania was in full swing. CDC reminders that one would have to come in contact with the bodily fluids of an Ebola victim themselves before getting infected fell on deaf ears. At hospitals across the nation, panicked Americans with flu symptoms began convincing themselves they were next.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- October 9, 2014
Ebola: Are US airport screenings more about controlling fear than disease? -- Harry Bruinius, CSM
General: Expect ‘Mass Migration’ to U.S. if Ebola Comes to Central America -- Mark Thompson, Time
Coalition's half-baked ISIL strategy won't work -- Kadir Ustun, Al Jazeera
Why Kobani Matters -- Joshua Keating, Slate
What's at stake as Kurds, Islamic State, and US fight over Kobane? A lot. -- Dan Murphy, CSM
A Creeping Sensation: If he’s not careful, President Obama is about to be sucked into a wider war in the Middle East. -- Fred Kaplan, Slate
Mr. Erdogan’s Dangerous Game: Turkey’s Refusal to Fight ISIS Hurts the Kurds -- NYT editorial
For Turkey, it's all about regime change in Syria -- Aaron Stein, Al Jazeera
Should Turkey be thrown out of NATO? -- Alan Dershowitz, Jerusalem Post
Deadly Attack in Yemen Adds to Fears Over Sunni Extremists -- Shuaib Almosawa and Kareem Fahim, NYT
Is Kim Jong Un's sister Kim Yo Jong in charge? -- Brian Todd and Dugald McConnell, CNN
Far from Hong Kong, ethnic minority regions in China are a tinderbox of tension -- Julia Famularo, Reuters
It's Rousseff vs. a Surprise Opponent -- Raymond Colitt, Bloomberg Businessweek
Anarchy vs. Stability: Dictatorships and Chaos Go Hand in Hand -- Mathieu von Rohr, Spiegel Online
Nobel Peace Prize: five favored front-runners -- Howard LaFranchi, CSM
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More "taking meetings and doing important things" photos. Oh, somebody wake up Casey. He's looking a little like Vespasian at a Nero recital and he'll get in trouble too.
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