Threat Assesssment

Not keen on a twenty- or maybe thirty-nothing using the "how freaked out should you be" construction for his Vox listicle (For one thing, the punctuation is "How freaked out should you be?" or "How freaked out you should be:" not the idiot combination thereof used.)

Yada yada. I thought Ukraine & Crimea was enough; atomic confrontation over Estonia was not registering on the threat potentiometer.

Worst-case scenario: Russia does in Estonia what it did in Ukraine, that snowballs into war between Russia and the US/NATO, and the nukes start falling.

How freaked out should you be: To be very clear: the odds of this happening are extremely low. But the danger is real enough that everyone is taking it seriously (Russia is holding major nuclear exercises). If it did happen, it would be many, many times worse than every other item on this list combined.

What's important, however, is not facts or even statistics, but that the listicle typist/aggregator is an "Israel-hater" (who will have moved on to "hating Jews" by the end):

Voxplainer, and Israel-hating Max Fischer has a post about potential threats to the American people.

The list of errors, flaws in thinking, leftist illogic, and outright nonsense would embarrass anyone not affiliated with Vox.

Threat to Americans: If you are an American in West Africa in close proximity with Ebola victims, the threat is moderate. If you are an American health worker in the US assisting an Ebola victim or someone who frequently comes into physical contact with one, the threat of infection is minor if you use proper protective equipment. Otherwise, the threat is pretty close to zero.

That gives you just a hint of the idiocy to follow. Shockingly, he finds global climate change to be a greater “threat” than ISIS or Ebola. Household furniture, televisions, and driving a car he deems to be more dangerous than ISIS or Ebola. 2nd Amendment rights are more dangerous than Ebola or ISIS. It is odd how he lumps Cancer [sic] and heart disease together.

It is abundantly clear that Max does not know the difference between a list of causes of death and an actual threat analysis. Or anything, for that matter. He should stick to locating bridges from Gaza to Israel, and hating Jews.

What seems quite clear is that they want to minimize the failures of Obama to recognize and address the actual threats posed by Ebola and ISIS.

"Leftist illogic": Further proof of reality's "liberal bias". Remember when the political predecessors of these fraidy-cats were convinced the oceans would keep us safe? Whatever happened to that?

Let's recap the death toll for the worry-warts. People beheaded by ISIS terrorists in these United Snakes: Not a one. People in these United Snakes dead from Ebola: One. People in the U.S. who've contracted the disease overnight: Zero. People hit & run to death in NoHo overnight: One. You tell me, "Jew-lover".

Additional fool hysteria:

Editor's note: Reports are circulating that a person who became ill on a Dallas Area Rapid Transit train today was on an Ebola watch list. Those reports have been debunked by DART officials, according to @NBCDFW. - Aaron