Uuuugh.
"I am not a scientist," Republicans opine when confronted with the science of climate change. Oh, if only we could convince them
they were not epidemiologists either.
Republican Rep. Peter King thinks the doctors are wrong on Ebola, suggesting the deadly virus might have mutated and gone airborne in an interview with Long Island News Radio last week.
“You know my attitude was it’s important not to create a panic and it’s important not to overreact and the doctors were absolutely certain that this can not be transmitted and it was not airborne and yet we find out the people who have contracted it were wearing all protective gear,” said King.
His attitude
was that it's important not to create a panic and overreact. His attitude
now is screw all that, he's pretty sure we're all gonna die. Vote Peter King!
“It’s time for the doctors to realize that they were wrong and figure out why they were wrong. Maybe this is a mutated form of the virus,” adds King later in the interview.
Or maybe the protocol for donning and removing the protective gear didn't work. Nah, it must be because upon coming to America the virus itself, once exposed to the Freedom in the Texas air, altered its very structure. That is clearly the more plausible scenario, so Peter I Am Not A Scientist just has to sigh and shake his head at all the stupid doctors who do not understand viruses and their transmission as much as he does.
“Listen, I don’t blame doctors or the medical profession for not being up to date on the latest mutation,” says King. “I mean, they should try to be and they should work at it but less I think they should be less definite when they make these pronouncements. That there is absolutely nothing to worry about, this can’t be transmitted airborne, that there’s nothing to worry about.”
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The sad part is that Rep. Peter King probably got his own expertise on the Ebola virus and various ways it will soon be killing us all from the same place all House Republicans get their medical news—conservative email chains. That's always been good enough reason to announce that entire fields of science Are Wrong, especially when there's money to be made or when a conservative desperately needs to remind his constituents that they are all going to die unless they continue to cast their votes for savvy not-experts like himself.