Posted on 10/15/2014 6:47:52 PM PDT by jimbo123
President Obama vowed a more “aggressive” federal response to the spread of Ebola in the United States. And he offered assurance tonight that a “serious outbreak” remains extremely unlikely.
“I want people to understand that the dangers of you contracting Ebola, the dangers of a serious outbreak, are extraordinarily low,” he said after meeting with Cabinet members and other top aides. “But we are taking this very seriously at the highest levels of government.”
That assurance that a “serious” outbreak is unlikely is markedly less optimistic than the one Obama offered only a week earlier in a call with governors and mayors across the country, when he said that “the chance of an Ebola outbreak in the United States remains extremely low.”
As for health care workers in Dallas, “we understand that many of them are scared,” the president said tonight.
(Excerpt) Read more at trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com ...
Why isn’t Reid ‘deeply troubled’?
Obama is like 1 and 29 with promises, and the 1 was ‘change america’. Only we didn’t know from bad to worse.
He said that he was also confident Ebola wouldn’t make it here in the first place, so...
We're waaaaaay beyond serious.
Obammy puts the “F” in stupid!!
Go hug an ebola patient then. Please!
This science imbecilic, ignorant, arrogant excuse for an educated human being is so far out of his depth that I couldn't care less what he may be confident about.
As a matter of fact, Let's start a list.
List of things that Hussein Obama has gotten right, or critical national crises that he's resolved.
I'll start.
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Would that be Marshall Dillon’s Law?
Oct. 16 New England journal of medicine predicts a ten fold increase in the Ebola situation in the US in the short term.
Guess he doesn’t think that’s serious.
The president said he has ordered CDC to provide a rapid response or “Swat team” on the ground within 24 hours, any place Ebola crops up in the United States. That, in part, is a response to shortcomings in Dallas, where Texas Health Systems Presbyterian Hospital initially sent home Thomas Eric Duncan with a high fever; he died Ebola a week ago, and two of his nurses ended up contracting the disease.
All I have been able to think of is Ghostbusters.
So I re-read Poe's Masque of the Red Death, thinking of Washington DC in terms of the castle, and Dear Leader in the role of the prince, shut up with his cronies against the onslaught of what the rest of his country is enduring. From the Wiki page: The disease called the Red Death is fictitious. Poe describes it as causing "sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores" leading to death within half an hour.
Oh, really? Now isn't that cheery? I'll leave you with Poe's last line: And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
At the moment I sort of wish he hadn't written that...
“Obama confident the US won’t see “serious outbreak” of Ebola”
That confirms it, folks.
WE ARE SCREWED.....
The American-African president is a genius!
What is the swat team gonna do?
Shoot each victim as they are discovered?
Wearing protocol CDC hazmat suits, of course.
< /s >
Bush tells the FEMA director he’s doing a “heck of a job,” press pounces.
Obama praises CDC, which “encouraged” an Ebola carrier to fly, absolute silence.
Gee, just a few months ago the schmuck said that Ebola would NEVER come to America..no worries..now it’s here, and its here in spades, thanks to Obama and the Rat party who care more about VOTES than American lives
this buttplug thinks the economy’s better than ever so i really don’t think his definition of “serious” fits with mine or any other sane person’s.
I suspect that Obama doesn’t understand what exponential growth is.
well over 90% of the press didn’t vote for bush. there’s the difference.
If the jug-eared jackass didn’t address flight restrictions from West Africa or stronger border security, then he really isn’t serious about containing Ebola. Whatever else he has to say isn’t worth a bucket of warm spit.
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