Posted on 10/05/2014 6:10:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Under an Open Borders mandate from Obama, the CDC has to keep finding increasingly ridiculous reasons for why letting people with Ebola into America is a good idea.
Dr. Thomas Frieden, directorof the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the federal government is looking at different safety-related suggestions from Capitol Hill and beyond, but he suggested the key is to control the deadly virus where it started overseas, not limiting entry to the United States.
Though we might wish we can seal ourselves off from the world, there are Americans who have the right of return and many other people that have the right to enter this country, Frieden said at a press conference Saturday. We’re not going to be able to get to zero risk no matter what we do unless we control the outbreak in West Africa.
Frieden went on to say that limiting entry at the borders could actually put Americans at greater risk.
“In terms of the entry process, we really need to be clear that we don’t inadvertently increase the risk to people in this country by making it harder for us to respond to the needs in those countries, by making it harder to get assistance in and therefore those outbreaks would become worse, go on longer, and paradoxically, something that we did to try and protect ourselves might actually increase our risk,” Frieden said.
If we don’t let people with Ebola into America, we’ll be endangering Americans. And then Ebola wins. The only way to defeat Ebola is by supplying antibodies to more moderate diseases. Like AIDS. And the Bubonic Plague.
Taking in Americans with Ebola under quarantine is one thing. Taking in anyone else covered by “other people” is another.
Zero risk is a strawman. Since zero risk is never attainable, we should never do anything. Why even have airport security? We can’t achieve zero risk anyway. Same goes for airbags and brakes.
It’s the “seal ourselves off from the world” part that the Open Borders crowd really hates. Quarantine does actually stop disease outbreaks. Open borders spreads disease. But we’re in a new “settled science” phase in which spreading a disease is the way to beat it.
Tell me. How to the hell does a viral particle 'win' in a sociological event such as opening or closing the border? To deny hosts to ebola seems to be a winning strategy to the people who might have otherwise contacted the virus and then contracted the disease.
It is simple really, obungler is a racist who cares only for other blacks and mooselimbs. Period end of story. He aims to destroy so called white privilege. In his diseased pea brain that is justice.
That’s what I’m thinking.
That stupid bastard needs to be put down. Our lives could very well depend on it. I wouldn’t wish that terrible disease on anyone, but if he insists on allowing people from affected countries to come here, if ANYONE gets it, I hope he is the first. That STILL wouldn’t change his mind though, because he’s so devoted to his ideology, which is manifested in his political correctness. He would literally DIE before doing anything else.
Quarantine is perhaps the world’s oldest means of preventing the spread of disease for very good reason: it works. Quarantine is also strictly enforced when transporting animals, produce, etc. internationally.
It is, of course, a measure of the politically-driven cynicism of Obama et al as well as their hubris that they think time-proven medical protocols should be dismissed because they happen to be in office.
The CDC director and anyone else sacrificing medical science and ethics on the altar of PC should be not only sacked immediately but also struck off the medical register.
Send every one of the advocates of this to Africa on a one way trip and seal the borders!
And if a significant outbreak does occur in America, they will blame.....Republicans. For underfunding, racism, intolerance, or something.
There are appointed bureaucratic messes that need to be removed now.
This is one.
He needs to removed from the job.
Perhaps he can be forced to stay home from work?
These are the words of a death cult. Something like Jim Jones on a Mega scale.
The CDC, in the past, always kept pandemics out. Whatever happened to keeping it contained (quarantined) and fighting it where it has metastasized?
Now they will not protect our borders and they are letting a pandemic into the country with a 70% to 85% kill ratio.
Word on the web is that Thomas Duncan is now dead. They are just delaying as long as possible in order to avoid a panic.
We are ruled by absolute lunatic madmen.
Allowing airplane flights out of Ebola-infected African countries is insanity. Think about it. If they can’t fly here, the disease can’t come here. It’s a physical impossibility. The carriers would die well before a slow boat from Liberia could dock on our shores.
“there are Americans who have the right of return and many other people that have the right to enter this country,
Maybe after a 3 week quarantine.
It's like lemmings running toward the cliff, only the ones out in front have parachutes, PHD's, and work for the government.
Whenever you make an attempt to argue with a fool or imbecile like a socialist (over here they like to be called liberals as it doesn’t sound quite as derogatory) first they like to drag you down to their own level, as they know they can never win any reasonable argument and by doing so more often than not they will win.
If things go badly with ebola and we finally happen to get a sane president and congress the. a law should be passed that anyone in the CDC and DHS wants to keep their pensions active then they have to serve in an ebola hits one as a medical attendant. If they don’t we can say they were “letting ebola win” and yank heir pension. I despise these f**ktards!
Perhaps they should treat Ebola like AIDS and start a quilt.
Every time a person from the infected areas leaves that area the risk of infection is spread to new areas.
Uninfected areas have the right and responsibility to prevent entry by persons from infected areas.
Absolutely!!
“Dr. Thomas Frieden, directorof the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,....”
Dr. Thomas Frieden has a “Slow Joe Biden moment”!
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