WELL, IT’S KILLED A LOT MORE PEOPLE, AND SPREAD A LOT FARTHER: What makes this Ebola outbreak different from prior ones? Plus: “Our health care authorities are guilty of a combination of stupidity and hubris. They indicate that they believe they know everything there is to know about the science of the way this disease is transmitted, and are arrogant about it. But they don’t even know what they don’t know.”

Meanwhile, here’s how things are polling among Today Show viewers, a pretty Obama-friendly demographic. 94% in favor of quarantine.

UPDATE: I guess Mary Landrieu saw this poll: “We should institute a mandatory 21-day quarantine so anyone traveling between the affected countries & US does not unknowingly spread Ebola.”