Posted on 10/16/2014 11:12:29 PM PDT by dennisw
The CDC chief eventually admitted that they’ve spoken about the issue, but refused to confirm whether the White House checked with the disease control agency’s experts about halting flights.
“We’ve had discussions about the issue of travel to and from West Africa,” Frieden finally replied.
Scalise pressed Frieden over whether it’s active in giving the White House recommendations on what actions to take on travel between West African countries and the United States from a public health perspective, but Frieden would not say for certain what its interaction with the White House has consisted of so far.
“Have y’all had any conversations within the White House about a travel ban, and whether or not the President has the authority, because many of us have said the President does have the authority to do it today,” Scalise asked during a House Energy and Commerce committee hearing on the response to Ebola.
“From the point of the view of the CDC, we’re willing to consider anything,” Frieden said, repeating his standard response about flights coming from Ebola-affected countries.
“But have you considered it and have you ruled it out, or have you not considered it at all?” Scalise pressed on, but Frieden did not answer. “Have you had conversations with the White Houseabout a travel ban?”
“We have discussed many aspects — ” Frieden began, but was cut off by Scalise, asking yet again, “How about a travel ban?”
Anyone who votes Democrat in November is supporting the spread of Ebola in America
Frieden= incompetent commie ideologue and Obamanoid hack all rolled into one. A lying arse wormy little weasel.
Obama is calling the shots so he is happy to see Freiden being the public whipping boy who might be gone soon
Nurses need to walk out nationwide & demand a ban on flights before they will return! There’s always a way to deal with a crazy narcissist, cause they don’t think logically!
You can tell that for the last 30 years Freiden has been living in a liberal bubble where everyone has been telling him what a genius he is and what great things he is doing for humanity
This man represents decades of knowing what is best for others, until something dreadful happens and he suddenly doesn’t know what’s best for others.
Same as Hillary until Benghazi showed how incompetent she is, whose only forte is blame shifting
Until they’re shaken out of their cocky, purely political overconfidence, and I’m talking the CDC and the entire unelected bureaucracy as well as the White House, all anyone will get is the political answer to any question. It’s as if they actually believe infectious disease is completely under the control of politicians, bureaucrats and press releases.
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, with a population at a high risk of AIDS being taken seriously in demanding the “right” to donate blood. I guess it was bound to come to this at some point.
Ebola is causing problems with at least two sacred cows politically and they’re going to have to be dragged kicking and screaming into some semblance of physical reality.
We are there.
I have said often, concerning liberalism and the things resulting from it, that people are going to have to die before people accept the reality before them and change it.
And I mean a lot of people. We all know the details of liberalism and some of us even see how they fit together but the public at large, and even many on the right just can’t wrap their heads around it. Or they are afraid to.
Liberals are evil people. “Well my sister/neighbor ect is a liberal and they aren’t evil!”
Yes they are. They support death through abortion, death through muslims, death through legalized suicide, death through Obamacare and now death through excusing the actions of those keeping our borders open.
Folks, if the people now importing plagues were not empowered by evil people, how did they get there? The excuses about ‘I didn’t know” work no better here than they did in postwar Germany Circa 1946. When someone tells you they are going to do a, evil thing and then do it...and you empower them with your votes? You are evil.
The general public, high on the pride of their shiny participation trophies and fat from pizza parties feting them for their unique little snowflake superpowers, simply does not want to believe, as the German people did not want to believe, that “IT” can happen here. Yet it did and it is again.
With that being the case, until death comes calling to each of them personally, they will continue to hide behind their big screens and cable TV shows, bitterly clinging to the words of establishment directed newsreaders giving their daily ‘feelgood’.
We all have a choice. We can help these people continue to embolden our problems or not. The best we can do is get ourselves and our families as best prepared as possible for the SHTF, because ‘evil’ happens. And many of the people around us seem to be perfectly good with spreading it. As the people in Furgeson have learned.
“It’s as if they actually believe infectious disease is completely under the control of politicians, bureaucrats and press releases.”
I am firmly convinced that until the pols, the reporters(ettes), and liberal scum in hollywood start dying they will not take this virus seriously.
Looks like Obama will not stop the very potentially dangerous flights to and from West Africa. What the hell is wrong with this guy?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 17, 2014
It is time for the airline pilots, flight attendants and the airlines themselves to stop flights to and from West Africa. Do it right now!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2014
I am starting to think that there is something seriously wrong with President Obama's mental health. Why won't he stop the flights. Psycho!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2014
Look for high profile people to suddenly become scarce. Because once such people are effected, You’ll see a big coverup go into place to ensure as many people as possible become infected before realization sets in.
I am starting to think that there is something seriously wrong with President Obama’s mental health. Why won’t he stop the flights. Psycho!— Donald J. Trump
Note to Donald- you are just noticing now after 6 yrs- I thought you were one of the smart ones.
There’s a constitutional provision for just such an occurrence. It has a number. That number is 25.
But since we were told principle did not matter and purity was bad, we have no one willing to put it into effect.
Thanks RINO apologists.
I am waiting for the govt types to suddenly take vacation, or just disappear.
That when you know situation is spiralling.
Also if suddenly the more vocal hollywood types suddenly have a cruise, or go on extended euro vacation.
Yup. Eggsacticly. Only thing is, did they run or will they be ‘escorted’?
in perfect world they would be carried by six.
Alas we do not live in eiither perfect or sane world
I have this tinfoil Art Bell theory that some cosmic event happened sometime in the mid 90s that caused a rift in the fabric of reality. I believe that somewhere out there in the multiverse, the real earth spins merrily along as it was meant to and that some of us were transported to this alternate reality...a reality where entropy increases exponentially and things just get more nonsensical by the day.
Either that or we really screwed up and we were ‘Left Behind” without realizing it/or are now in hell.
Art Bell- used to listen to him when driving or working the overnights.
Yiour idea has some merit, best explanation I have seen.
The last part about left behind, is possible, but I fear the hell on earth has not begun. It will get much worse.
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