What The U.S. Refugee Panic Shares With The Ebola Panic - Forbes
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politicians, the media, and to some extent the public, didn’t listen to those medical authorities. They seized on the doubts, and the terrifying Ebola symptoms. It seems like a long time ago, because the panic was quickly forgotten as the outbreak came under control. But for a while, it was pretty crazy. Merely having traveled to Africa became a presumptive cause for ostracism in some communities. Some speculated that “Obama’s Katrina” was in the offing. We got an Ebola czar, who ultimately had to do very little.
Today, the “virus” is jihadist terrorism. People fear that terrorists will ride the huge flow of Syrian refugees fleeing ISIS and civil war into their towns.
