For “Dumbest Reaction by State Officials to Ebola” is Louisiana…

The CBC reports: Ebola fears infect Louisiana medical conference

Ebola fears have infected a U.S. medical conference on the subject. Louisiana state health officials told thousands of doctors planning to attend a tropical diseases meeting this weekend in New Orleans to stay away if they have been to certain African countries or have had contact with an Ebola patient in the last 21 days.

So they are so concerned with Ebola that they don’t want experts on the disease to meet and exchange current information on the disease and how to combat it.

The people attending the conference are professionals. They know what to do if they suspect they have symptoms, which is more that the state health officials in Louisiana know.

Maine’s governor LePage just learned what New Jersey’s governor Christie was shown – don’t mess with the red-head.

The BBC reports: No forced quarantine for nurse Kaci Hickox

A judge in the US has ruled in favour of a nurse fighting a state quarantine order since returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa.

Judge Charles LaVerdiere ruled Kaci Hickox did not need to be isolated or restricted in her movements because she is not showing symptoms of the virus.

She was ordered to monitor her health, which she has been doing all along. She is a professional and knows about Ebola. If she does discover a symptom of any kind, she will go to a hospital immediately because she knows that’s how you recover from the disease.

Happy All Hallows Eve

Treat or hairball!

[Editor: CC celebrates Halloween every day.

Friday Ark

Whether you celebrate Celtic New Year’s Eve [Samhain], the evening before All Saints Day [Halloween], or the posting of Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses in 1517 [Reformation Day], have a happy one.

Wikipedia does its normally thorough job of covering all of the bases on the holidays that share October 31^st.

These are my remembrances of a traditional American Halloween.