Obola

When Obama first ran for office, some squat person in front of me in a line entering the county fair said something that sounded like "Obamanation." It took me too long to figure out that this was his comment on a political candidate.  More recently I've heard "Obola," an attempt by the illiterate to find the right person to blame for a virus.

More interesting to me is the way Americans react to fear and the way that political leaders play on fear.  Look at the situation Nurse Kaci Hickox is in--the governor of her state has been attempting to quarantine her for Ebola although our scientists tell us that she doesn't have it. The governor is up for re-election--Ms. Hickox has been folded into his campaign. He's been hinting in public that someone might want to kill her.  He's probably found a winning if illegal issue. 

Closer to home I have a good friend who has disinvited a guest on the grounds that the guest has visited a country in Africa that does not have Ebola. In other words, the guest visited a county that does not have the disease, returned to America, which does have it, and then forfeited her invitation to the party because she had traveled to a nation that remains Ebola-free.