Do not succumb to Ebola 'hysteria,' Obama urges

AFP/Yahoo News UK ^ | 10-18-2014 | Peter Stebbings

[tcrlaf]

US President Barack Obama urged against "hysteria or fear" Saturday in the face of a growing Ebola crisis, as the United Nations spoke of an "encouraging" response to its funding appeal.

The worst-ever outbreak of the deadly virus has so far killed more than 4,500 people, mainly in three West African nations at the epicenter of the outbreak: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Obama's warning came a day after the World Bank warned the battle against the disease was being lost and as the US president named an "Ebola czar" to coordinate Washington's response.

A UN appeal for nearly $1 billion to fight the spread of the disease has so far fallen short, but a spokesman told AFP more money was coming in daily.

Out of $988 million requested a month ago, the UN said Saturday $385.9 million had already been given by a slew of governments and agencies, with a further $225.8 million promised.

[tcrlaf]

Translation:

This Ebola thing is killing us in the polls, and no matter how hard we try, we aren't controlling the narrative.

It threatens the permanent Democrat Majority based on unlimited illegal immigration!!!

[Rummyfan]

We wouldn’t even be having this discussion even not for your ideologically driven nonsense, Obama.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Obama then shut down the access of people in affected countries, to come to America.

This is a (very real) and very big problem.

I know you measure what you do every day against some sort of measure of your public image. You are ruining that right now.

Shut down immigration from those countries which are a source of infection. NOW.

Do it.

[DoughtyOne]

Eeeebola, Eeeebola, my kind of town...

Washington, D. C., where the brain dead go to make plans for the rest of us.

[Gaffer]

Actually, when he speaks on this I hear “wash your hands, fools.”

[DoughtyOne]

McCain in mere moments...

I think we need a Hysteria Czar.


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[SaxxonWoods]

We don’t fear Ebola as much as we fear our government’s incompetent response to it.

[PoloSec]

"Do not succumb to Ebola 'hysteria,' Obama urges"

You have your orders now move on!

[Gaffer]

There are probably 50 or more million Obama drones out there unwittingly staking their lives on agreeing with this man on whatever he says.

Unknowingly, it is likely that most of the future infectees will be his supporters. People with intelligence and common sense know better than to actually listen to this fool, let alone follow his advice.

[Dick Bachert]

Bill Whittle
Fear of Ebola:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TLqi9e5yWA
(Love Bill long time but he may not have seen the University of Minnesota research indicating that, indeed, ebola CAN be airborne in water droplets from a cough or sneeze AND the virus can survive for DAYS outside a host!  And each new infected patient presents the prospect of MUTATION into a non cough or sneeze generated airborne variant.)

[TheConservativeParty]

He thinks he’s saving his open borders agenda by keeping the infected flying here.

Even the most brain-washed demoRat will hate him when their family member succombs to O’Bola.

This will backfire in an epic manner for The Magic Negro (that’s an
L.A.Times name for O’Bola circa 2008).

[Chgogal]

Mr. Smartest Man in the Room, people are pissed off at YOUR mishandling of the Ebola crisis. You allowed one lying contaminated Hot Zonian into this country. Because YOUR CDC didn't have the correct protocols in place 1,000 people are now being monitored. WTG Mr. Smartest Man in the Room. Since September 20, 2014 up to 4,600 Hot Zonians have entered this country. Ebola is a Risk Group 4 pathogen. We have only four facilities with 11 beds available in the WHOLE country. Three of them are now occupied. I think Mr. Smartest Man in the Room you didn't take enough arithmetic classes much less mathematics classes otherwise your policies would be different. OR may be, just may be you are not the smartest man in the room

[Califreak]

Maybe the narcissist in chief is punishing those of us who know he’s not the smartest man in the room and don’t hesitate to say so

[tcrlaf]

1) You can transmit Obola on a bus.

2) You can’t catch Obola on a bus.

3) Quarantines don’t work, except in every other country on Earth other than America.

4) Liberians are our responsibility, because they are slaves 200 years after slavery disappeared. Now we’re all slaves to the FedGov massa, so they are our dark, blood-puking retarded brothers.

5) Obola is the Republicans’ fault, because they cut the budget, except they actually didn’t.

6) Obola isn’t a threat to America, except when the next presidential election rolls around, when it will be necessary to declare martial law and cancel elections because of it.

7) Obola is Bush’s Fault(tm).

Did I get all of the latest memes down?

[Dick Bachert]

We wouldn’t even be having this discussion even not for your ideologically and INSANITY driven nonsensecompulsion to destroy America and turn it into just another third world jungle, Obama. There, that's better!

[EBH]

Is the Ebola thing being overblown? Hard to really say.

BUT...what it does demonstrate is how ill-prepared our government is in the event of a bio-warfare attack.

So let’s really chat about that. I recall middle east plane hijackings since childhood. Never, but never in a million years would I have believed a 9-11 would have happened, but it did.

You see America, 9-11 is really a turning point in the terrorism that exists. The common man could never imagine infecting himself with Ebola...or any other deadly disease...as a weapon. But they will and likely have...and are likely already among us.

Duncan was incidental, he wasn’t the one they planned on. He wasn’t the one they were tracking. That is why they won’t close down the border, stop flights, hold visas. There is a terrorist plan afoot and like 9-11 we will see thousands infected or dead. They want to catch them, but they do not know where they should be looking.

[grumpygresh]

President zero is always wrong, and this is not because of ineptitude.
Do the opposite.

[Terry L Smith]

This Clown comrade thinks that even the UN, which was reported as saying, the United Nations spoke of an “encouraging” response to its funding appeal.

OH GEE! THROW SOME MO’ MONEY!!

[HarleyLady27]

We wouldn’t even be having this discussion even not for your ideologically and INSANITY driven nonsensecompulsion to destroy America and turn it into just another third world jungle, Obama. There, that’s better!...AND don’t forget to tell the idiot to head back to Kenya where he belongs!

[catfish1957]

I am 57, and I don’t think in my lifetime, have I ever seen a POTUS bungle a crisis as badly as this one. Carter’s 1980 Operation Eagle’s Flaw has been displaced.