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Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 02:07 PM Oct 2014

Two children from Rwanda are being kept from elementary school in New Jersey because...EBOLA!!11

You see, Rwanda is in Africa......and Africa has Ebola!!!

Nevermind the fact that Rwanda isn't even afflicted by Ebola. Who cares!!

USA! USA! USA!



http://www.mediaite.com/tv/elementary-school-throws-ebola-tantrum-over-two-kids-from-rwanda/

Elementary School Throws Ebola Tantrum over Two Kids from Rwanda

Two elementary school children are being kept from attending Howard Yocum Elementary School in New Jersey because they recently moved to the U.S. from Rwanda, prompting ebola fears from other parents — even though Rwanda is 2,600 miles from the west African region afflicted by the ebola outbreak.

The school informed teachers of the two children who were set to start school today, but word got out and parents objected. The family has “elected” to keep their children home for the twenty-one day potential incubation period.

As Fox 29 pointed out, Rwanda is as far from the ebola outbreak as Seattle is from Philadelphia. That didn’t stop the parents of Yocum Elementary from saying the following on record:

“I don’t feel comfortable sending my daughter to school with people who could be infected with ebola.”

“Really concerns me. I don’t want to keep my boy out of school.”


“Tell us when we come into the door. Don’t smile in my face and have a secret like that.”


Fucking idiots!!!

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Two children from Rwanda are being kept from elementary school in New Jersey because...EBOLA!!11 (Original Post) Cali_Democrat Oct 2014 OP
I just saw this on MSNBC. RiffRandell Oct 2014 #1
One comment in the article nailed it. Cali_Democrat Oct 2014 #2
Make that stupid pantshitters lunasun Oct 2014 #7
America, the Chicken Sh*t, I like to call it. n/t shrike Oct 2014 #29
"over reacting hasn't hurt anyone"? K&R for wtf. uppityperson Oct 2014 #3
Kinda like not driving on the highway in San Francisco because there was an accident in Boston. Tierra_y_Libertad Oct 2014 #4
You nailed it malaise Oct 2014 #13
Yep Solly Mack Oct 2014 #43
+1 treestar Oct 2014 #44
Anyone with even a bit of knowledge of recent history could have predicted this..... Bluenorthwest Oct 2014 #5
I remember Ryan White, and his struggle to get an education despite having an illness that can.... moriah Oct 2014 #15
Yes but you see Rwanda is not that far from Kenya where Obama was born right?? lunasun Oct 2014 #6
Uh oh, you're in trouble now. kestrel91316 Oct 2014 #9
If you think a gown and a mask are all that's needed to not contract Ebola.... moriah Oct 2014 #18
If you had used the word "some" before nurses, rather than saying "nurses need...", it would have uppityperson Oct 2014 #19
No more, and no less than the corollary. LanternWaste Oct 2014 #23
But it could have mutated, become airborne and flew the 2600 miles!!!!!! jeff47 Oct 2014 #8
... n2doc Oct 2014 #10
LOL! Cali_Democrat Oct 2014 #31
Even sadder it looks to be a primarily democratic area mayor and 4 council members (D) lunasun Oct 2014 #11
Reminds me a bit of the crazy shit that was going on with AIDS in the '80s. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2014 #12
Collectively, we are really, really stupid and deliberately ignorant. MineralMan Oct 2014 #14
For an elementary school, this should have been a great opportunity ... surrealAmerican Oct 2014 #16
Very good point. SheilaT Oct 2014 #17
One of the best replies yet. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Oct 2014 #22
Crazy. It's not just for Texas anymore. Crunchy Frog Oct 2014 #20
I bet a bunch of DUers agree with this! nt Logical Oct 2014 #21
I think the concerned (and geographically-challenged) parents should keep sinkingfeeling Oct 2014 #24
this is how republicans are able to win elections JI7 Oct 2014 #25
i bet if there were some immigrant black kids from Jamaica, Brazil , Cuba etc JI7 Oct 2014 #26
Would not surprise me since HockeyMom Oct 2014 #48
This message was self-deleted by its author taotzu Oct 2014 #27
Embarrassingly stupid. City Lights Oct 2014 #28
*scratching head* Unless they were in contact with someone who had it such as someone on the same cstanleytech Oct 2014 #30
Rwanda? It's not involved in this outbreak. Are all African countries supposed to be the same place, LeftishBrit Oct 2014 #32
Yes. Many low-information winguts believe Africa is a country, not a continent. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2014 #39
Yup. nt Cali_Democrat Oct 2014 #41
Wait a sec. I thought only people from the south and midwest are ignorant racists GusBob Oct 2014 #33
Well, look at it this way... The_Commonist Oct 2014 #37
Not much of a school if they couldn't even educate the parents. n/t jtuck004 Oct 2014 #34
Dallas is closer to New Jersey than Rwanda is to Liberia... Man from Pickens Oct 2014 #35
I swear, just when I think we (USA) can't look any more racist and dumb, a new story comes out. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #36
Keep in mind.... Cali_Democrat Oct 2014 #38
I share that concern. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #40
That's 2600 miles too close! Proud Liberal Dem Oct 2014 #42
Truly idiotic treestar Oct 2014 #45
My county has announced new restrictions in enrollment: ecstatic Oct 2014 #46
It would be a very big stretch to include Rwanda in west Africa . At least your county sticks lunasun Oct 2014 #47
Rwanda's perfect response : screen all Americans coming onto the country. uppityperson Oct 2014 #49
 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
2. One comment in the article nailed it.
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 02:15 PM
Oct 2014

America is no longer the home of the brave, it's the home of the pantshitters.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
5. Anyone with even a bit of knowledge of recent history could have predicted this.....
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 02:23 PM
Oct 2014

Several people on DU have told me that there is no harm in speculation about implausible mutations and mass casualty. I have asked a few of them if they remember Ryan White. None of them do.

moriah

(8,311 posts)
15. I remember Ryan White, and his struggle to get an education despite having an illness that can....
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 02:53 PM
Oct 2014

.... only be transmitted sexually or through blood-to-blood contact. My Dad had the same disease. I was freaked out at him sleeping with my mother (they had separated when I was 3, before he was diagnosed, but got back together briefly after his diagnosis while I was still a teenager) even with a condom, though. I didn't trust condoms, I knew my sister had been conceived through one and the virus is a lot smaller than sperm. (What does freak me out generally, more, is how many 30+ year old men think that lambskin condoms protect against any condition other than pregnancy.)

However, given there has been one strain of Ebola that is airborne (though thankfully it does not negatively affect humans, we can become the carriers of it and infect other primate species, at least until we clear the virus ourselves), there is a higher potential for it to develop that characteristic than any of the Immunodeficiency Viruses, none of which are airborne in any species to my knowledge.

I still think it would happen in the animal populations that host Ebola first, and we'd realize fairly quickly that people without close intimate contact with patients were getting sick, if that ever happened.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
6. Yes but you see Rwanda is not that far from Kenya where Obama was born right??
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 02:26 PM
Oct 2014

You just have to assume these people buy all the kook bs they can hear
Why would that school nurse send that letter to begin with ? I would be more in fear of knowing this kind of nurse is first person for my kids if they get sick during school hours = not too smart
and why haven't we secured our borders with the state of Texas???
No one said the real Idiocracy would be as funny as the movie(if you found it funny..)
 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
9. Uh oh, you're in trouble now.
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 02:39 PM
Oct 2014

ALL nurses are saints, and they are all experts at everything they do. Well, except infection control apparently, which they need extensive remedial training in donning and wearing gowns and such or learning to think like germs because they just can't seem to remember the basics they learned in school.

I caught hell here for implying that at least some nurses might be supremely unqualified to get within shooting distance of dangerous pathogens because they were clueless.

moriah

(8,311 posts)
18. If you think a gown and a mask are all that's needed to not contract Ebola....
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 03:05 PM
Oct 2014

... I'd say you were supremely unqualified to lecture nurses on proper suiting/desuiting procedures. Which do require practice, just like anything else -- and continuous practice, not just school for it.

I'd FAR rather have a nurse draw my blood than, say, a doctor. He practiced it during his residency, then left it up to the nurses for a decade or more. People who draw blood all day are my preference, as it usually only takes one stick with them -- unless they're inexperienced or just out to torture me, which is what it's felt like a few times.

Hence why DWB is has such a low nosocomial infection rate for their employees -- because their people are given the proper training and the proper equipment to deal with Ebola, as well as drilled in it before patient contact. Not a 10 minute "training video" and then being expected to suit up and get unsuited perfectly, without contaminating yourself while taking off the protective gear, and face real live Ebola patients and their puking of blood.

uppityperson

(115,674 posts)
19. If you had used the word "some" before nurses, rather than saying "nurses need...", it would have
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 03:13 PM
Oct 2014

helped

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
23. No more, and no less than the corollary.
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 03:40 PM
Oct 2014

"ALL nurses are saints.."

No more, and no less than the corollary is valid.

However, I've yet to read either being stated on DU... merely re-stated, re-interpreted and re-defined for dramatic effect by posters who need the melodrama to better cover up a lack of any real valid premise.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
8. But it could have mutated, become airborne and flew the 2600 miles!!!!!!
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 02:37 PM
Oct 2014

You can't prove it didn't!!!!!!!!!!!

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,268 posts)
12. Reminds me a bit of the crazy shit that was going on with AIDS in the '80s.
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 02:49 PM
Oct 2014

Then there was the anthrax scare and the panicked run on duct tape and plastic sheeting.

And after Jaws came out there were people who wouldn't swim in fresh-water lakes.

Pants-shitters is right.

MineralMan

(146,190 posts)
14. Collectively, we are really, really stupid and deliberately ignorant.
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 02:52 PM
Oct 2014

That truth is responsible for much of the pain in the world.

surrealAmerican

(11,339 posts)
16. For an elementary school, this should have been a great opportunity ...
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 02:57 PM
Oct 2014

... to teach geography. Did they not have a map to show these ignorant parents?

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
17. Very good point.
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 03:01 PM
Oct 2014

Among other things so many Americans are ignorant about is basic geography.

I bet half of the parents who are freaking out could not find Africa on a map, let alone point correctly to the part of the continent that is currently experiencing Ebola.

sinkingfeeling

(51,275 posts)
24. I think the concerned (and geographically-challenged) parents should keep
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 03:49 PM
Oct 2014

their kids home and let the two Rwandans go to school.

JI7

(89,172 posts)
25. this is how republicans are able to win elections
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 03:52 PM
Oct 2014

there are people who are truly ignorant fuckwads. and these types are even worse than those who just don't have any b interest and don't vote because these types actually think they are informed.

they are the attention whores who fill those stupid panels of "undecided" voters during debates and other things on the whore shows.

JI7

(89,172 posts)
26. i bet if there were some immigrant black kids from Jamaica, Brazil , Cuba etc
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 03:55 PM
Oct 2014

who had an accent there will be stupid fucks who just see black/accent and immediately think ebola.

Response to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

cstanleytech

(26,080 posts)
30. *scratching head* Unless they were in contact with someone who had it such as someone on the same
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 04:06 PM
Oct 2014

flight this just does not make sense.

LeftishBrit

(41,190 posts)
32. Rwanda? It's not involved in this outbreak. Are all African countries supposed to be the same place,
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 04:29 PM
Oct 2014

or something?

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,268 posts)
39. Yes. Many low-information winguts believe Africa is a country, not a continent.
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 05:29 PM
Oct 2014

One such wingnut allegedly was Sarah Palin. The fact that Rwanda is farther from Liberia than Los Angeles is from Boston is irrelevant because Africa is a country full of black people with terrible diseases who will come to America and give us all ebola and sap us of our precious bodily fluids or something.



Fact is, America has more than its share of pants-wetting idiots.

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
33. Wait a sec. I thought only people from the south and midwest are ignorant racists
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 04:31 PM
Oct 2014

you know, the flyover states. Liberal eastern and western states are the only bastions of enlightened perfection. What gives?

The_Commonist

(2,518 posts)
37. Well, look at it this way...
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 05:11 PM
Oct 2014

Atlantic City NJ is south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
That school is in Maple Shade, which is only about about 15 miles north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
So... much of New Jersey is actually in the south!

But really - I'm from New Jersey and there are plenty of stone-cold idiots there just like there are everywhere.

NutmegYankee

(16,177 posts)
36. I swear, just when I think we (USA) can't look any more racist and dumb, a new story comes out.
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 05:11 PM
Oct 2014

Anybody else as depressed as I am over this?

 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
38. Keep in mind....
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 05:28 PM
Oct 2014

There are also many Americans that will vote for Republicans this coming election because they think the GOP will keep them safe from ISIS and Ebola.

This country just might be beyond repair.

ecstatic

(32,566 posts)
46. My county has announced new restrictions in enrollment:
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 09:42 PM
Oct 2014

No new students from West Africa will be allowed to enroll without medical documentation and approval from the county superintendent.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
47. It would be a very big stretch to include Rwanda in west Africa . At least your county sticks
Tue Oct 21, 2014, 09:54 AM
Oct 2014

with the area truly affected by ebola

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