Do you remember what ended the 2014 Ebola-epidemic in the US?

[DetlefK]

The midterm-elections.



http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/12/31/the-media-in-2014-by-the-numbers/201950

[3catwoman3]

1. Haven't heard squat about it...

...since.

[doc03]

2. yep n/t

[world wide wally]

3. The news cycle switched from 24/7 Ebola to 24/7 Ferguson

[maddiemom]

16. Benghazi! had died down a little by then.

[rgbecker]

4. Apparently Ebola was voted right out of existance.

If only we could do the same with the Republicans.

[Ms. Toad]

5. Correlation does not equal causation.

Please identify incidents since the midterm elections of (1) people circulating in the public in the US being diagnosed with Ebola, (2) People circulating in the US public under conditions the CDC now says were inappropriate, or (3) a first Ebola event within the US (a first diagnosis, first transmission, etc.)

Hmm....Weren't any? Maybe, just maybe,then the stories were because things were going on within the US related to Ebola - unless you are suggesting the Republicans rigged the timing of those actual events.

[tammywammy]

10. Exactly. Craig Spencer was released the hospital on 11 November.

He was the last case, so obviously the news would stop reporting on it.

[Enthusiast]

11. But in this case it is causation. Republicans (Far Far Right) rigged the faux media outrage.

Remember Obama brought Ebola here and he was bringing it in hoping to kill millions of American Christians so he could replace them with Muslins. Sharia law! Go, Sharia!

[Ms. Toad]

15. Please identify Ebola events of similar significance in the US

which occurred after the midterm elections. The stories were caused by actual events in the US - the first case diagnosed on US soil, the first transmission within the US, botched standards - and botched implementation of the botched standards which led to transmission within the US, and CDC standards which resulted in at least two medical personnel who were exposed to Ebola being out in the public during what would now be a quarantine period (exposure + symptoms {including fatigue} until Ebolanis ruled out).

The new stories about Ebola stopped when there stopped being US centered news on Ebola. Period. So unless you are suggesting that the far right arranged for the two series of Ebola incidents to occur just before midterm, you are employing the same kind of logic which says that the use of car seats or vaccinations causes autism, because the rate of diagnosis of autism has increased since both increased.

[Enthusiast]

19. Car seats don't cause autism, but they do cause Ebola.

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[Ms. Toad]

20. Hmm...I now think your logic problem is even more serious...

since I have a sneaking suspicion that the rate of car seat use in the US, where no infants have contracted Ebola is a tad higher than the rate of car seat use in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, where quite a few have... so even correlation fails in that assertion.

Your math teacher should be severely scolded.

[ShannonB]

6. Hmmm

...very interesting

[calimary]

7. Welcome to DU, ShannonB!

Glad you're here! Happy New Year! Thought-provoking for sure. Don't know if there's any actual connection, but we do have almost too many examples of the media frenzy to pile on the President and Democrats in general (especially when the Dems wimp out and just utterly spoon-feed the media with reasons to pound away at such themes). I'm a retired broadcast journalist, and this shit in general just hurts my heart and my head. Every new revelation about assholes and pretenders such as news-quacks like chuck todd - just makes me hurt.

[Fred Sanders]

8. Maybe it went into Don Lemon's airliner black hole?

The media cycle of fear moved on from Ebola and ISIS to other fears, the timing was pure coincidence.

Who can forget CNN asking "The ISIS of Biological Agents?" and then cutting to stock footage of brown folk crossing the Mesican border and how many rejected science in favor of that fear?

Good times for the media and for folks addicted to fear. Not so much for an informed electorate.

[spanone]

9. Ebola Benghazi Ebola Benghazi Ebola Benghazi..........repeat rinse.....

they still hate the black man in the white house.

[Enthusiast]

17. You can accomplish great things when you control the entire media.

[spanone]

21. who owns the media?

[Enthusiast]

25. Yup. Just look what it has done to "our" democracy.

[malaise]

22. M$Greedia has three objectives

Impression management, profits and ratings

[Major Hogwash]

28. 4! The MSM used four tools at their disposal whenever they wanted to.

Don't forget surprise!

(No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!)

That's why it was so powerful!!

By focusing on THIS, nobody paid any attention to THAT.
Their greatest weapon is that they focus on 1 issue, ignoring all of the others.

Ebola vs the economy.
Ebola vs the end of the Afghanistan war.
Ebola vs the progress in civil rights for gays.

That's why it was Ebola 24/7 for several weeks.

[malaise]

29. That's how the impression management succeeds

It's always worse than it is - 24/7 Ebola.

[proverbialwisdom]

12. Both NJ and NY enacted new laws, apparently.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/01/374194902/ebola-aid-workers-still-avoiding-new-york-and-new-jersey

[underpants]

13. And here I thought it was ISIS not making it to the border

Silly me

[Boreal]

14. I never figuredout the intent behind the ebola theater

but you can bet that there was an intent. Nothing is pimped 24/7 by the Mockingbird media unless certain forces want it so. It's all propaganda meant to manipulate the public. With the ebola nonsense, the closest I could figure was to create an excuse/pretext for the massively expanding US military (AFRICOM) presence in Africa which, of course, has fuck all to do with anyone being sick.

[postatomic]

18. I don't know if these numbers are accurate

But, I suspect they are close. Sorry but I'm always skeptical about these words on pictures. After the midterms I also don't recall hearing as much about ISIS. We are an incredibly stupid country. The excessive and misleading stories about Ebola and ISIS were obviously used to scramble the brains of 'mericans to generate the desired results.

[xfundy]

23. Just like how the colorful terra-ism warnings disappeared.

Right after the elections.

[progressoid]

24. Because there were no more cases of Ebola in the US after Nov 11

And we don't really give a shit about the African cases unless they impact us.

Still, the media is crap in America.

[Enthusiast]

26. The media is crap crap crap. Repeat after me.

[Warren DeMontague]

27. Actually, I think people were paying attention to the math.

In September and October, the case numbers in W. Africa were growing exponentially, and anyone with a scientific calculator could figure out that that particular pattern extrapolated into the future, (i.e. now) would be very, very, bad.

Fortunately, for everyone, several things seemed to finally get a handle on the problem, particularly in Liberia, among them the US commitment to aid and additional treatment beds as well as cultural messaging around burial practices.

It's still a problem, but it's not spiraling out of control the way it was at that point in time. I don't think the "panic" was really driven by a political agenda. If we had ended up seeing a million cases by the end of the year, as the CDC had warned as an upper possibility, then no way would that panic have been overblown.

[pampango]

30. Fear and emotion serve one political party much better than the other.