Posted on 10/19/2014 4:26:47 AM PDT by huldah1776
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But what have politically correct North American governments done? They’ve hemmed and hawed, and blathered out excuses about why a ban would only make things worse.
I am not particularly worried about the spread of Ebola in North America – a little, not a lot. But choosing political correctness over public health – even choosing PC over health workers’ health – is asinine, ridiculous and even arrogant.
The worst fumbling, mealy mouthed arguments against a travel ban to the U.S. and Canada have come from Thomas Frieden, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Frieden, the man behind former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s attempts to ban large soft drinks, outdoor smoking, trans fats and menus without nutrition labelling, was appointed head of the CDC in 2009 by U.S. President Barack Obama.
Frieden has said a ban is undesirable because it wouldn’t be 100% effective. That makes about as much sense as saying that because condoms are only about 96% effective in preventing sexually transmitted diseases, people should feel free to have as much unprotected sex as they please.
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Title: A toxic [head of the executive branch]
http://nypost.com/2014/10/19/a-toxic-president/
I have 2 more years until I might be able to say I have a President.
Another idiot reporter gets it wrong, they want this virus to come in to the US, they want it to spread, they want it to kill tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands.
This will allow them to declare Marshal law, detain those who oppose the new socialist order.
Between declining to call the AIDS spade a spade, destroying the best military in the world, and now bringing in Ebola unresisted, our nation’s PC crapola is going to get us all killed.
Not to mention ruining the economy with a lot of Marxist claptrap.
It’s all not so bad for us Old Farts, but nasty for the kids just coming up and the folks trying to raise their families.
I believe the arrogance is really one of the core problems. It starts with an arrogance against God.
IIRC, in order for someone to import an animal (a pet) into England, it has to be quarantined for a number of months. I seem to recall Hawaii has the same kind of deal (could be mistaken).
My point is this: Okay, don’t BAN them altogether. REQUIRE them to submit themselves to a 30 quarantine (in a location where they can be monitored) and make them pay for it.
He is Canadian and much more secure than are Americans so the tin-foil hat (I agree with you, by the way) isn’t needed up yonder. I really like their Prime Minister for the little I know about him.
Manufacturing around Toronto is booming, oil fields off Newfoundland the same. Wouldn’t want to get sick there, though. Brother-in-law had cancer and had to wait 4 months for treatment. Sounds like the VA and Ovomitcare.
Freedmen said they would only come thru our porous borders at the hearings!
Frieden
Let all the people who come from infected nations pass through Capital Hill and the White House before moving on to their final destination.
What if the so called US Air Borne troops are being sent to Ebola Land to learn how to set up similar so called treatment camps in America?
LITTLE GIRL: “DADDY THERE’S A POOR LITTLE DOGGIE AT THE FRONT DOOR AND HE’S GOT FOAMY STUFF ON HIS MOUTH, SHOULD I LET HIM IN?”
DADDY: “SURE LET HIM IN HONEY, HE’S PROBABLY JUST HUNGRY AND WE’LL GIVE HIM SOMETHING EAT”
Imagine if the 3 ‘hot zone’ countries were not Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, but rather Norway, Sweden, and Denmark ... any bets on how fast a travel ban would be imposed?
PC means that innocent people will be sacrificed on its altar.
SOMETHING EAT”>>>Something TO eat
Why are we sending our airborne guys, marines, sailors and other untrained military personnel re bio hazards like Ebola into the Ebola hell hole of West Africa?
The soldiers at Fort Detrick are well trained re Ebola and other deadly viruses and how to handle them safely.
Are they being sent there to guide our other troops? If not, why?
See the link below that describes the history of Fort Detrick and up to the present. The personnel there probably have more experience re Ebola versus any other group in the world including our worthless CDC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Detrick
Government you are either with America on this one, or you are for the foreign governments.
It is that simple.
Why are the so called experts at CDC, Homeland Security and TSA not stepping up and doing their job to protect Americans from passenger fly ins with Ebola or exposed to Ebola in countries raging with deadly Ebola, without banning or severely restricting air travel from Africa?
They don’t want to. Again, this is a prime example of the need to use Cui Bono, the old Latin phrase which asks the question, “Who benefits?”
So Cui Bono or who benefits with no real travel restrictions from Africa to the USA?:
1. The airlines, which fly people and freight from and to Africa.
2. The businesses which service the air lines and need their business.
3. The need of our left wing progressives to have another unending “war” like the war on poverty. A war on Ebola is the ultimate wet dream of liberals, who never let a good crisis go to waste.
#1 and #2 above are obvious to any of us with half a brain.
#3. Requires a little explanation. A War on Ebola will make the War on Poverty look like a very small wet puddle compared to a full scale and large flood like Noah’s.
A liberal/progressive War on Ebola will require us to hire millions of people with worthless degrees or psychiatric problems to fight this war. We will have shore to shore facilities to provide offices for these previously unhireables. They will require hundreds of thousands of supervisors to motivate and to monitor them and to waste money like VA hospital administrators do now.
Our worthless State Department will expand our embassies around the world to the size of the one in Baghdad to house and office the warriors of the War on Ebola.
Moosella and Jill Biden and the worthless Follywood idols will do thousands of PSAs telling us to spend our time and money supporting the War on Ebola.
They will start marches, marathons and other BS social circle jerks to raise money and to support the War on Ebola.
They will pour gallons of ice water or whatever on sports idols and Follywood idols to support the War on Ebola.
Our military will no longer fight Isis and bad guys, they will be included in the great War on Ebola. Barrack E Obolabama has started that process with our troops in and being sent to Western Africa to fight Ebola.
None of the above will save lives. Like the War on Poverty and other expensive liberal wastes, this fight Ebola cause will thrive without any real positive results. Each death from Ebola will result in more money and more worthless people involved in the War on Ebola.
Then, they will tie the War on Ebola with Global Warming to take away any rights we have left.
But choosing political correctness over public health – even choosing PC over health workers’ health – is asinine, ridiculous and even arrogant.
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No, it makes perfect sense. It’s just that the left has a much different goal than the rest of us. They want to import disease and poverty and corruption in order to “fundamentally transform” our free society. Cloaking travel bans in terms such as “racism” just eases their efforts.
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