“OMG” is right. Check out this photo of NYPD officers leaving Ebola victim Dr. Craig Spencer’s apartment in Harlem yesterday. Notice anything wrong?
NYPD dispose of gloves, masks in public garbage can after securing #Ebola patient's apartment http://t.co/HeuyoKBkzT pic.twitter.com/qlIvxkudlI
— Progress Queens (@ProgressQueens) October 24, 2014
Listen, we’re not doctors here at Twitchy … but neither are those cops. Were they told that it was OK to dispose of potentially infected rubber gloves in a public trashcan?
More photos here:
#NYPD leave #Ebola Dr.'s apt. and dump protective gloves and masks in trash can http://t.co/8YJcd0kFtZ pic.twitter.com/sUghJvOmaN
— ?The_News_DIVA? (@The_News_DIVA) October 24, 2014
And as if on cue, Media Mutters weighs in:
figures….Fox News attacking NYPD for its handling of Ebola case; http://t.co/WXQEGvV4R7 #fearmongering
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 24, 2014
https://twitter.com/schargel/status/525600558082969601
A good question — but don’t expect an answer from Boehlert.
Now, this might entirely be true:
https://twitter.com/EMgrB/status/525604797228269569
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But we were also told last night that the chance of an Ebola infection at the bowling alley visited by Dr. Spencer was low and the health department shut it down out of an “abundance of caution”:
Bowling alley closed out of an abundance of caution but officials remind: Ebola transmitted by exchange of bodily fluids.
— Chris Jansing (@ChrisJansing) October 24, 2014
The risk may be “nil,” but it’s the optics that matter.
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