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EBOLA JITTERS FOR packed evening commute — it Evangeline Love was riding alley — Dean BeLer, a 68-year- she’d felt proud to hear that a honest, I don’t even want to talk seemed hard for many not to the train to her job with the city old tourist from Williamsburg, doctor from Doctors Without to people.” SOME NEW YORKERS feel a tad uneasy. Human Resources Administra- Virginia, was taking in the Borders was living there, and Outside Bellevue on Friday, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 On the L train — another tion. “I saw the mayor and the view. He said ap- was more concerned for him Suraya Yesmin felt similar line Spencer had ridden — a governor,” she said. “There’s no peared to have done a good job than for herself. fears. “Where is the man with ing through Penn Station, one group of schoolgirls in uni- need for hysteria. I’m here.” of handling things, “compared “If I get it, I get it,” said the Ebola?” asked Yesmin, of Ozone of the most crowded places form passed around a bottle of Also there: school social to the fi asco in Dallas.” 47-year-old offi ce assistant. Park, . She’d brought in the city. “It’s only one con- hand sanitizer. Construction worker Alicia Clavell, 55, read- Jen Paul, 43, was taking But for Stan Malone, 45, who her 10-year-old daughter to see fi rmed case. I’m certainly not worker T.J. DeMaso, 41, said ing a newspaper story about photos. “I’m not particularly lives across the street, things a dentist at the hospital, but completely hysterical — that he was concerned. “If the out- the Ebola case. “I feel they have afraid,” she said. “I don’t gener- were bad enough to make him ended up leaving. makes little sense.” breaks get any more common, it under control,” she said. “I’m ally handle other people’s body — and three family members “It’s because of the virus,” she And yet, in a place where I’ll be moving out of the city,” he just hoping this is an isolated fl uids. It would be a shame if the who live in Spencer’s building said. “We’re scared.” space of any kind is at a premi- said. “You could catch it and not incident.” bowling alley and other busi- — pack up for a hotel, where But Mayor De Blasio visited um and where a day is a series even know it. You could bring it On the elevated High Line on nesses were to suff er because they stayed Thursday night. the isolation unit at Bellevue of countless physical interac- home to your kids. That’s not a the far West Side — also a place of needless fears.” “I don’t think this is gonna where Dr. Spencer is being tions — from the newsstand to chance I want to take.” Spencer reported visiting, Back at Spencer’s Harlem be the last case,” said Malone, treated on Sunday, saying that the morning coff ee guy to the Others were more relaxed. along with a Brooklyn bowling building, Tanya Thomas, who who said he was on his way to he’s “looking better.” lives on the fourth floor, said buy a protective mask. “To be

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