the family sued, they reach a settlement with the millford school district tonight. the school district concedes the girl is perfectly healthy. she's had no contact with any ebola patients, she does not present any health risk to any individual, and finally, finally after all of this idiotic rigamarole, she will be allowed to go back to school as of tomorrow. happy halloween. the school district still insists they were acting out of good faith. so who knows how this would have resolved had the family not sued to get their little girl back in school, but now she will be back in school. the history of fear-driven, ignorant public health panics is a long one. and so it is not surprising that confronting something like ebola has led to a lot of ridiculous, irrational, inane, panicked decisions. but we have now, certainly as of today, we have now entered the phase of our nation's response to this, where we are both continuing to make ridiculous, irrational, inane, panicked decisions, but at the same time, some people are also fighting back against those decisions. and so