Posted on 10/03/2014 2:59:48 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Yeah as equipped as we are to stop ISIS.
We are so doomed!
Freegards
LEX
I watched the whole presser. Of the presstitutes present, only one said they bought what the five of them were shoveling.
A couple laid it out for them, “You say you’ve got this wonderful infrastructure, and you know what you are doing, but what happened in Dallas says the opposite.”
Wendell Goler and Major Garrett were there, and there were a couple in the second row I didn’t recognize. They basically fried the crew.
The women present was the Secretary of HHS, and the spokesbimbo who could NOT communicate verbally. Unclear, full of canned expressions, repeated like incantations. If I had to drink a shot of whiskey for every time I heard the word ‘infrastructure’, I’d be dead.
Also, they took complete credit for stopping the outbreak in Nigeria. Funny thing that the case they have brewing right now came from Nigeria. The commander of Africacom they had up there looked like that eagle muppet on the Muppet Show. Beak and everything.
All I can tell you is that based on what I just saw, I don’t feel any better.
‘Contact tracing’ is another phrase that would have done me in had I to drink every time I heard it. Lost on the spokesmoron women was the obvious - you wouldn’t have needed contact tracing if your ‘infrastructure’ for keeping Ebola out of the US had worked.
Major Garrett asked about travel bans. Spokesbimbo replied with her bit about the infrastructure in West Africa being in place to catch that before it gets on the plane, and her quoting Frieden about how the ban would make response difficult, and causing it to backfire.
Garrett followed up: “How about half a ban? Nobody comes in from those countries, but we can send as many people down there as we need?”
She wasn’t ready for that one. I could literally not follow the unbroken string of officialspeak that she tried to use to cover up the truth, which is, “That would probably work, but since its your idea and not ours, we are rejecting it out of hand.”
The women involved set back the cause of women in public relations positions by at least 20 years. Fauci tried his best to look like, “Hey, we have this licked, relax.”
In fact, the last presstitute to ask a question tossed Fauci a softball that actually caused me to cringe: “You are having a press conference today even though you are basically saying there’s nothing to worry about. What is it about this disease that causes us to be so afraid?”
Fauci responded, appropriately, that Ebola kills quickly, efficiently, and in a grisly manner. The reason for the press conference was BECAUSE of the fear. (i.e., if you ignoramuses knew as much as we did about the disease, we wouldn’t be wasting our time up here.)
The women could not STOP talking about the need to communicate, like you can talk this bug to death (I don’t know - you put these two on the case and maybe they can.)
I’m thinking about this, and I’ve been rough on the women who did the presser, and now I know why I’m so piqued at them:
Not once did any of the five of them come out and say, “First, let me say that first time at bat against this bug and we f*cked up in major ways. I’m going to talk to you specifically about why and how that happened. . . “
There wasn’t a single attempt to try to regain our confidence by saying:
“Look, we’ve done everything but infect one of our people with it and film it so that each health care worker in the US gets a complete and frank understanding that they have to do everything we are telling them to do or people are going to die unnecessarily.
HCW’s are under a lot of pressure, and sometime the checklist gets done, but the answers don’t make it to the doc, and the docs notes don’t make it to admin and facilities, and that’s what happened here. That the nurse and doc in this case learned a very expensive lesson is the only reason they didn’t lose their privileges.”
Not one word of the Liberian cure was mentioned, nor was any question about it asked.
Goler knew of TWO knew cases in the DC area that the spokesbimbo CLEARLY didn’t know about. She repeated shakily the information she knew about the Howard U case, and repeated they were waiting for results.
Goler’s question about the two cases in DC was basically about how that information was making its way from the field to the CDC. The spokesmorons kept talking about how the infrastructures ability to get information out was awesome, and getting better, but it was clear that the information only flowed in one direction - out.
Goler exposed the fact that the two DC cases were news to her.
Whatever they thought they were going to get from this presser, they got the opposite from the presstitutes that were there.
Nobody looked relieved at the end of it.
With our media “leaning forward” to bow before the Obama-altar, he’s probably confused.
The crew couldn’t get out of there fast enough. Those two women, embarrass me as a Gal.
Well, we’ll see. I’m not convinced. Here’s to my being wrong. I’d love to see it.
Heh heh heh...
Nothing is stopping them, they are doing it. Do you know how every Ebola outbreak before this one was stopped? There have been around 20 "wild" outbreaks in West Africa, and they were very isolated, to one or at most two villages. "They" stopped it by isolating the village / hamlet it was in and letting it run it's course. In most of those cases there were plenty of medical personnel and beds available-- not so now. This time there is no isolated village or hamlet, but they have tried to treat the cases the same way in an industrialized, highly mobile population. Look at how it worked in Monrovia. People should be horrified by that answer, this time is not at all like the others and the way those outbreaks were stopped would not be acceptable in the US.
“The crew couldn’t get out of there fast enough. Those two women, embarrass me as a Gal.”
I felt conflicted after I watched it. I remember thinking, “No effing way there will ever be a woman President after what I just saw today - they just can’t do the modern communication job that only, apparently, a man can do.”
The fact is, however, that’s not true. Actually, its only true in one case - baseball. Go see a SF Giants game. Only female stadium announcer in the MLB. She sounds like a police dispatcher. Contrast it to Tom Hutler in Seattle, or the announcers in NYC or even Oakland.
Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir. Giants. Consummate communicators.
I think of my daughter - she’s one of the most confident, accomplished, and poised leaders I know.
I know so many confident women leaders. I have to ask - how come none of them are working for the government? Barra at GM is horrible. Fiorina at HP, criminally horrible.
The women in the spotlight right now have the feel of part-time employees.
Children’s Hospital in Seattle has 7 women working there for every man. 7. It shows too. Got to pick the kids up, so I’m out of here. Can’t see you after 5. Working from the house today, blah, blah, blah.
One of my academy classmates qualified for the astronaut program. Top of our class. She was smart, steady, and you’d follow her into a fire. Didn’t crap where she ate.
Turned it down. Way too much crap, and not enough intrinsic return. Got married and raised kids, retired five years out of school from the service. She should be President.
I know women can lead. I just don’t see any of them in leadership positions.
Because he talked the least, he came off as the smartest guy there, and that’s the General. I couldn’t help noticing the thought bubble over his head that read, “I have no idea why we are going to put your kids within 1000 miles of this disease. Please don’t ask me why we are.”
His statement took maybe a minute.
Don’t be embarrassed. I used to think the worst thing imaginable would be the Russians nuking DC. God help me if I don’t pray for it on some days. Burn the place out and start over again in St. Louis.
they sure as heck weren’t ready in Dallas.
Very nice summary, thank you!!!
I appreciate the comments, but I honestly don’t quite understand your comment that they are doing it.
This spreads more every day. Am I incorrect in that recognition?
Excellent summary. I loved the question about the wonderful infrastructure, and everyone knows what to do then why has every step in the process been broken in Dallas so far, and noted they didn’t ever really address that. I was hoping someone would mention the powerwashing of contaminated vomitus with no protection, with people strolling through it, and a beverage container getting splashed on. GEN Rodriguez was the FORSCOM commander before this duty assignment, and I have always thought he was pretty squared away. I’m sure he hates these pressers and says whatever he’s told, but when it comes down to doing the job I’m sure he will think things through and do things that make sense.
My point was that they are not doing anything remotely effective, and what worked in the past only worked because they had a very isolated very small region to contend with. This will require a completely different strategic approach in my opinion. You can't effectively isolate people in the USA by just barricading the township. You need to get them and all suspected contacts into isolation immediately, away from the general population.
Does anyone who is not mentally ill have confidence in these incompetent govt loons?
If we bring enough of the infected here, it will placate the virus and make up for American slavery!
What a complete nightmare.
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