Posted on 10/19/2014 7:18:30 PM PDT by Innovative
Even as U.S. health authorities continue to tell Americans not to worry about the Ebola virus, their assurances are being undercut by the increasingly obvious deficiencies in domestic planning.
The United States does not remotely have an Ebola crisis, but it is beginning to have a crisis of confidence in the Obama administration's handling of the matter.
President Obama made the right move early on when he offered $1 billion worth of aid to West Africa. Substantial aid is not only a necessary humanitarian response, but the smartest way to prevent a global health problem.
Now the administration also must toughen up its response at home.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The CDC was calling the shots in Dallas. The whislteblower nurse stated specifically (on Anderson Cooper’s show) that the CDC was there and told her the ‘new protocols’ that were in place.
Leftists (Bill Mahr etc) are trying to blame the Dallas hospital.
It was the CDC that dropped the ball.
Of course, nobody from Liberia should be entering the country at all so that’s the real ball dropped here, but ... slavery! So we let them in.
Typical LA Times - transferring a billion dollars from US taxpayers to African kleptocrats is a “smart move” by Obama, but shutting our borders to disease carriers would be racist and dumb.
And, for the most part it is conservatives informing the less conservative.
It may be a blessing in disguise.
No joke. What great enlightenment the LA Times has blessed us with there. Any average Middle School kid paying attention knew that taking the temperature at an airport for a virus that has an incubation period of 2 - 21 days is an almost useless exercise. The Times doesn't even mention that glaringly obvious fact.
And we further learn that 13% of those infected never develop a fever.
They should have concluded that it is idiotic to allow people from the ebola stricken nations to enter the US at all until the virus is controlled in their home countries. It is beyond obvious they the screening being done is almost useless.
Endorsement- Obama for president
The nation has been well served by President Obama's steady leadership. And Mitt Romney has demonstrated clearly that he's the wrong choice.
Wonder what % of the billion will be used for it’s actual purpose and not outright stolen?
Africa didn't have an Ebola crisis last January either... is there a journalists on the planet that understands 'exponential growth'?
Africa didn't have an Ebola crisis last January either... is there a journalist on the planet that understands the concept of 'exponential growth'?
Put one grain of wheat on the first square...
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
CAN THEY TOP THIS? Course, we have yet to see Ron Klain and lamebrain Susan Rice reacting together....but it will be interesting to see if they can top CDC'S Frieden for utter stupidity.
FRIEDEN FAMOUSLY SAID: "You Can Give Ebola on a Bus, But You Can't Get It on a Bus."
The Strange Logic of CDC's Dr. Thomas Frieden.
Nothing this idiot says makes sense. He told Megyn Kelly
US health personnel just need to wear gloves and face mask to
prevent the contagion. But here he is in Liberia---covered to the hilt.
CDC's Frieden in haz-mat in Ebola-struck Liberia.
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CDC head Dr Tom Frieden Denies Enterovirus Link to Illegal-Alien kids wandering across the border into the US and into our schools---“There is no evidence that unaccompanied children brought EV-D68 into the United States; we are not aware of any of these children testing positive for the virus,” the CDC emailed WND......
Frieden's suck-up is so complete---Mexico is sending him a case of Tabasco-flavored Chap-Stix.
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