Safety In Ebola Hysteria

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Is anyone ever truly safe? Some may believe they are safe inside their home, when they’re at school, or even at the movies. However, safety is an illusion because there have been many cases where people have been hurt at their home or school where they assume they are safe. In “The Masque of the Red Death,” the nobles believed they were safe from the Red Death because they were protected by the abbey. In “Ebola Hysteria: An Epic, Epidemic Overreaction,” the American people were losing faith in their government’s ability to keep them safe within the U.S. from the Ebola epidemic. Therefore, safety is an illusion because bad things can happen with no warning, People could get hurt and even die when thinking they are safe.

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