Posted on 10/16/2014 10:42:15 PM PDT by dennisw
Well, here's who Dr. Thomas Frieden is. He was the health commissioner for Mayor Bloomberg in New York City. And Dr. Thomas Frieden, as the health commissioner in New York for Mayor Bloomberg worked with Bloomberg to increase tobacco taxes. He was right there banning smoking from workplaces, including restaurants and bars. Now, it's too bad that Dr. Frieden won't allow us to crack down on Ebola as hard as he's cracked down on cigarettes.
But I was talking yesterday, AIDS was the first virus to ever have privacy rights. It was the first virus to have civil rights. And Ebola may not be far behind because the same guy who was willing to ban smoking from workplaces and enforce it to the max, send people in to find people smoking and fine 'em, first offense, and worse after that. He was the smoking nanny. He was the smoking nanny for Mayor Bloomberg. He worked with Bloomberg to raise tobacco taxes and ban smoking from the workplace. He succeeded.
This is the point. Dr. Thomas Frieden succeeded, along with Mayor Bloomberg, in banning cigarette smoking in an entire city, the largest city in the country. But the same guy says you can't stop people from flying into the country from an Ebola country. Now, the last I checked, you don't need a visa to smoke. You do need a visa to get into the country. Frieden did not think it was mean to contain cigarette smoking in New York City. He thought that was responsible. Cigarette smoking is not proven to kill everybody who does it. We can't even calculate a smoking death rate, actually. There's no way of actually doing it. And even at that, smoking takes decades to make people sick.
Not Ebola. So here's a guy who had no problem stigmatizing smokers. Here's a guy who had no problem banning them to the outer reaches of society because they smoked the evil tobacco weed. But with Ebola, well, you know, there's nothing really. It's bad, but, you know, it's just not fair, just can't do it.
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RUSH: By the way, in addition to the smoking ban and stigmatizing smokers as the filthiest, deadliest people in the city of New York, Dr. Thomas Frieden, who now runs the Centers for Disease Control, was the man behind the banning of trans fats in restaurants in New York City. His health department also required chain restaurants to post calorie information to raise consumer awareness of the caloric impact of fast food. That's who this guy is. You were asking me, "What is he saying?" This is who the guy is.
Smokers are public enemy number one, and we will banish them and their activity to the far reaches of our society. And we'll do it with smiles, and we'll do it with punishment in mind. It takes decades to kill from smoking and there is no secondhand smoke death risk. That's another suppressed survey. The United Nations, the World Health Organization, they did research and they found it and they suppressed it. They did not report it, but we got the cached file from the website way back in the nineties. They studied it in country after country after, secondhand smoke might make people uncomfortable, but there's no illness attached to it. It's a big myth. Anyway, that's who the guy is.
maybe its just me because i’m so pissed off at him, but where did he get that terribly weird accent?
Bugs me too. (he did graduate from Oberlin College which could explain his fake accent and mannerisms)
His papers are as good as Eboma’s and they both work for the same foreign NWO consortium, hellbent on destroying America.
Freiden is 10% scientist and MD and 90% vile leftist hack. Who is a bad liar to boot.
He is 90% leftist social engineering fanatic and ideologue
There are dozens of qualified people, but regrettably Obama will hire a moron.
Like every other member of the Obama administration, he’s a treasonous, leftist, anti-American hack.
An idiot.. first thing you do in any outbreak is containment, prevent the spread. He’s apparently a lot like Obama, think common sense, what’s the right thing to do and do the opposite.
Hitler banned public smoking too.
Won't aggressively keep out ebola out of fear of President Obola.
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