"Scarier than Ebola" is a recent article from The New York Times. Author, Frank Bruni, has been an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times since June 2011. Bruni wrote this article to show how the American population tends to blow things out proportion, and make them worse than really are. He feels as if Ebola is simply a small issue that can be controlled very simply should not be something to worry about. .
In the article, Bruni offers this question: Why do the American people focus on threats we feel we can't control when there are even more serious threats that we simply just ignore? He then goes on further into the article, giving examples of the threats we choose to ignore yet are a very big cause of death in today's society. We, as proud Americans, should not only care about the question that Bruni offers, but care enough to want to change and take action against these threats that destroy our population. Bruni uses a logical appeal here to make the reader question why we are making such a big deal out of something so small. It makes you take a step back and realize there are more important things to dealt with.
From the beginning, the author asks the reader to turn away from the Ebola crisis. Since the Ebola virus arrived in the U.S. only a month ago, citizens all over the United States have been worrying about contracting it, and its spread throughout the country, blowing it way out of proportion. This crisis has been all over the media and has the American public taking extraordinary measures to insure immunity. .
Continuing into the second paragraph, Bruni builds his case by presenting several statistics. In this way, he supports his beginning statement by showing the reader exactly what he was saying about more severe threats. He asks reader to answer this question: Have you had your flu shot? The flu virus has been a part of our nation for centuries, yet we choose to push it aside.
