It can seem callous but humor is the great American defense mechanism. There’s probably some complicated psychological explanation but a lot of people cope with stress and fear by laughing at what they’re afraid of. Clearly Ebola is on people’s minds. In the age of social media, the reaction plays out with memes and pop culture references.<\/p>\n\n\n
When your homie start coughing and you think he got ebola pic.twitter.com\/A2BUNqZTBe<\/a><\/p>\n — CARLOSNEXTDOOR (@DreamVillainous) October 2, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n when Ebola spreads to U.S and your homeboy starts coughing pic.twitter.com\/aKGa6UaecK<\/a><\/p>\n — GOAT (@blvckpapii) October 2, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n as soon as i heard Ebola hit the U.S. pic.twitter.com\/fSqURFPJCI<\/a><\/p>\n — hayden (@yruhayden) October 2, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n When you the only person in the culdesac without ebola pic.twitter.com\/VtW5KJRoLa<\/a><\/p>\n — YA BOY GERALD (@AyGeraldJay) October 2, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n If Ebola ever hits my city pic.twitter.com\/9hnc8EXwq5<\/a><\/p>\n — (@Dory) October 2, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n My new grocery store outfit #ebola<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/N79gg3qEeC<\/a><\/p>\n — Right Scoop (@trscoop) September 30, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Bae: Come over
Me: Sorry I have Ebola :(
Bae: I'm home alone…
Me: pic.twitter.com\/AjMLQjxqBL<\/a><\/p>\n — Machiavelli (@SaltyVince) October 2, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n when Ebola comes to my city pic.twitter.com\/mBy17muROt<\/a><\/p>\n — Blake Henderson (@WorkaholicBlake) October 2, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Me when Ebola takes over my city pic.twitter.com\/npDsS1b5DR<\/a><\/p>\n — OhSkee (@CartelDelAfrica) October 2, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Akon crowd-surfed in a plastic bubble to protect himself from getting Ebola… pic.twitter.com\/G2xpqIv1Yf<\/a><\/p>\n — Conor Lynn (@_ConorLynn) October 2, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n when there's an ebola breakout but you wanna look fresh as hell #ContagiousChic<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/FMVNZEmpxq<\/a><\/p>\n — Ebola Fashion (@EbolaFashion) October 2, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n me whenever Ebola comes to my city pic.twitter.com\/NgSKMsS7C9<\/a><\/p>\n — PARKER (@ParkerKitHill) October 2, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n when ebola is spreading but you still gotta look fly pic.twitter.com\/hS2zMtHEn9<\/a><\/p>\n — Ebola (@EboIaTheVirus) October 2, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n when your whole squad's ebola outbreak outfits are on point pic.twitter.com\/vKJUcdj54C<\/a><\/p>\n — Ebola Fashion (@EbolaFashion) October 2, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Nurse: where'd the Ebola patient go?
Hospital guard: pic.twitter.com\/hd1oy5MHkL<\/a><\/p>\n — Simba (@Maccoul_) October 2, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n when you the only person in the village without Ebola pic.twitter.com\/SktUBmG0uP<\/a><\/p>\n — Simba (@Maccoul_) October 2, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n Editor’s note: This post was updated to include additional tweets.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n ‘Care to explain?’ Concerned Andy Richter has a question for Starbucks [photo]<\/a><\/p>\n What might prompt WH to ban flights from Ebola outbreak countries? Jim Geraghty nails it<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/10\/02\/when-ebola-comes-to-my-city-americans-share-ebola-defense-strategies-pics\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/babradeys\/status\/517787128089305089 It can seem callous but humor is the great American defense mechanism. There’s probably some complicated psychological explanation but a lot of people cope with stress and fear by laughing at what they’re afraid of. Clearly Ebola is on people’s minds. In the age of social media, the reaction plays out with memes and … Continue reading ‘When Ebola comes to my city’: Americans’ Ebola strategies [pics]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[415,411],"class_list":["post-5456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-outbreak"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/14341671603052-when-ebola-comes.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}