'Viral' Halloween Ebola Containment Suits? Is It Really Funny? Costume Dubbed 'Most Offensive' Topping Last Season's 'White Kids In Blackface', 'Boston Marathon Victims
Come October 31st, this Halloween, may take a twist on controversial costumes reflecting on the events shaping 2014. While tasteless jokes, pranks and costumes are part of the Halloween repertoire, the 'Viral' Halloween Ebola Containment Suits are presumably the hottest costumes of the year. With the Ebola outbreak in West Africa killing thousands, the debate over using 'Viral' Halloween Ebola Containment Suits is still a controversy.
Some social analysts say, dead Steve Jobs costumes are an example of a 'not-so-politically correct' Halloween themes, but it is part of the American pop-culture. Anything goes! At least during Halloween. The website Bustle dubbed the 'Viral' Halloween Ebola Containment Suits the "most offensive Halloween costume of the season."
According to a report by thinkprogress.org, Halloween is a time for Americans to make 'stupid costume decisions all the time,' including the white kids in blackface, the Boston Marathon victims and the Asiana Airlines flight crew members - all quite distasteful and a morbid testimony to the tolerance that the holiday allows.
Commentators say 'Viral' Halloween Ebola Containment Suits are sold by BrandsOnSale, a not so popular costume retailer, to make a wave with costumes like the Ebola Nurse, Ebola patient-type outfits for online viewers to stop by their website and take a look around.
"When we mock Ebola, we're simply making fun of ourselves," wrote Smith. "Since everybody dies, when we make fun of Ebola we're just mocking our own fears of death," Kyle Smith of the New York Post was quoted as saying.
"It allows people to stay far from the situation and not to imagine the human suffering that's actually occurring," said Kathryn Getek Soltis, professor at Villanova University told Time Magazine the 'Viral' Halloween Ebola Containment Suits and Ebola-inspired costumes were disturbing."
Maria McKenna, a Philadelphia physician's assistant said party-goers should "just say no" to an Ebola inspired costume associated to a fatal and infection disease. "Normally I think that irony and humor is funny, but this thing with the costumes, is it really that funny? I mean, Ebola's not even under control yet," The Associated Press reported.
In some ways, analysts say Ebola humor is a reflection on how the U.S. is unable to contain the illnesses with two more health care workers in Texas infected. One man died in a Texas clinic after returning from Liberia. In response to ebola virus checks at airports, airline companies are taking a hit with dwindline stock prices. Adding to that, people are quarantined more frequently. Southwestern College experienced its share of Ebola scares as President arrack Obama gets the point about Ebola and appoints an Ebola Czar. And yes the Ebola Czar has a Twitter account.
With Reports by UTSandiego.com
