Posted on 10/24/2014 6:11:03 AM PDT by shortstop
Ebola is now in New York.
And the governor is to blame.
It’s a simple matter of policies have consequences.
And stupidity comes at a cost.
For the last several weeks, a debate has raged about whether or not to impose a brief travel ban on those west African nations known to have ebola.
On the one side, the president has been alone among significant world leaders in saying that a travel ban would be ineffective. While most of the nations of the world have closed their borders to travelers from west Africa, Barack Obama has insisted that America remain wide open.
His plan involves taking the temperature of west African travelers as they fly into the country. The White House says that those who are infected will have a fever and be detected.
It is, of course, a foolish policy based on false science.
Because anybody with Google knows that during the typical 21-day incubation for ebola, many people do not get a fever, or display any other symptoms, until the last few days of the incubation period.
That means you get detected on day 18, but not on day 10 or 15.
Even though on day 10 or 15 or 1 you are just as infected with ebola and just as much a ticking time bomb of infectious disease.
It is an obvious and dangerous flaw.
And it was pointed out almost a week ago by New York Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy.
But his boss did nothing.
In fact, over the recent weeks of the gubernatorial campaign, Republican candidate Rob Astorino has repeatedly called for a travel ban. Andrew Cuomo has argued for exactly the opposite.
Which is risky in the state that’s the most likely to have multiple ebola outbreaks.
New York is the destination for 40 percent of all the west African flights into America – that is a large plurality. That means the largest number of folks who have been in the infected countries coming to America will come to New York. That means New York is statistically most likely to be the seed bed of any incursion of ebola into the American population.
It seems like that should worry the New York governor.
It seems like it is something the New York governor should try to avoid.
But not Andrew Cuomo.
No, Andrew Cuomo has his lips so tightly pressed against Barack Obama’s backside that he won’t even disagree with him to protect the health and safety of the state he is sworn to protect.
The president of the union representing New York City firefighters went public to say that our nation’s anti-ebola efforts were disorganized and ineffective, and that a temporary travel ban was essential. This is the man who represents the men and women of the FDNY – the folks who ran into the Twin Towers.
And those brave public servants know that allowing ebola to sink its roots in the fertile soil of our 315 million-soul population could have catastrophic results.
But given the choice of backing up his firefighters or his president, Andrew Cuomo told the uniformed heroes to pound salt.
And while almost every other major nation in the world adopted a policy restricting travel from the infected nations, Obama’s America has been open arms and open borders.
And so has Cuomo’s New York.
Our only defense a thermometer.
Which we all knew wouldn’t work.
And which has now been proven ineffective.,p>
A man whose bloodstream teamed with the ebola virus followed the Obama/Cuomo procedures to the letter and walked right through.
Now we have to watch and wait to see if and how many others he infected in our homeland.
Your governor is supposed to protect you.
Andrew Cuomo didn’t. For incomprehensible political reasons, maybe to curry votes or not upset core constituencies, Andrew Cuomo rubber stamped the foolish policies of the White House.
And now ebola is in New York.
Because Andrew Cuomo didn’t dare challenge his president or the established politically correct order. He went along with his party and his president.
Instead of standing up for us. Instead of saying that a thermometer wasn’t good enough. Intstead of listening to his own lieutenant governor.
Instead of protecting New York.
Andrew Cuomo boasted that we were prepared for ebola.
That’s good.
But better would be not having ebola at all.
And by refusing to call for a temporary travel ban, Andrew Cuomo has brought ebola to New York.
Wonder what the mood is like on the subway this morning?
New York is a whole new ball game.
Now it’s a liberal issue. Completely.
Let’s see how they handle this.
Reigning Governor Andrew Cuomo saluted smartly, then rubber-stamped the dangerous policies of the Obama White House. Cuomo didn’t dare challenge his president, or the established politically correct order. He went along with his party and his president......and now Ebola is in New York.
VOTERS NEED TO ASK WHAT CUOMO DID ABOUT THIS?
Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are at the epicenter of the world's worst reported epidemic of Ebola---the hemorrhagic fever that has killed more than 4,500 people.
During FY 2013, the DHS website showed US Border Patrol agents apprehended 112 immigrants from Guinea, 231 from Liberia and 145 immigrants from Sierra Leone----three countries currently experiencing the most Ebola cases.
VOTERS NEED TO ASK WHAT CUOMO DID ABOUT THIS?
There are two nations within our borders. There is The United States Of America and there is Democratland.
The purpose of the Democrat Party is to elect thieves to office so that they have access to the public treasuries in order to loot them.
Democrat Governor Cuomo extends the same protection to the citizens of New York that President Obama extended to the Americans at Benghazi.
Obama and Cuomo...birds of a feather!!! Both useless!!!
Obama admin unilaterally changes law to allow
"immigrants with limited" terror contact into US
The Daily Caller | 2/5/14 / FR Posted by Nachum
The Obama administration has issued new exemptions to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the Federal Register to narrow a ban in the Immigration and Nationality Act excluding refugees and asylum seekers who had provided limited material support, no matter how minor, to terrorists.
“These exemptions cover five kinds of limited material support that have adversely and unfairly affected refugees and asylum seekers with no tangible connection to terrorism: material support that was insignificant in amount or provided incidentally in the course of everyday social, commercial, family or humanitarian interactions, or under significant pressure,” a DHS official explained to The Daily Caller.
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry signed the exemptions. DHS contends that the law change is “commonsense” and that immigration procedures will remain the same in other respects. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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WRT THE AXE-WIELDING TERRORIST WHO ATTACKED NY COPS--VOTERS NEED TO ASK WHAT CUOMO DID ABOUT THIS?
REFERENCE Federal outreach to Muslim-American communities is a pillar of Obama counter-terrorism strategy
Washington post | 5/25/2013 | ap / FR Posted by tobyhill
Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, US government officials and Muslims in Boston called each other to offer assistance. These calls were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15....
Representatives from the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security called to offer support to Muslim communities......just in case THEY suffered backlash or threats. (more on FR).
WRT THE AXE-WIELDING TERRORIST WHO ATTACKED NY COPS--VOTERS NEED TO ASK WHAT CUOMO DID ABOUT THIS?
And if anyone in the New York City area who has physically communicated with Dr. Spencer comes down with Ebola symptoms, that will finish the political careers of both Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio.
Please do your part to stop the insanity.
It has gone on long enough.
We need a travel ban from the Ebola countries.
Call your reps—NOW:
Call the DC offices, or their local offices....but CALL!
The insanity of a doctor returning from a hot zone, breezing through the so-called “enhanced screening” process at the airport and then potentially exposing thousands of people to Ebola is the height of insanity.
We are ten days out from a nationwide election—the pols need to hear from you.
The family you save may be your own.
“Andy! Asentta me! Tu sei propio nu’ sfaccime!”
New Yawkers get their “Taste of Africa”. One of the dreams from Barry’s “father”. They get to share in the “Ebola Experience” in America.
If we dodge this bullet we will have been very fortunate.
It is primarily African and Carribean countries that have imposed bans. There are no European or Asian contries that have done so yet. Track it here: https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=435&;
Gay marriage and now ebola.
Cuomo has welcomed both to NY.
Another dirty shameful Dem parading as a self serving hero.
New York City is so left wing they will continue to vote for these guys even if they (the governor and mayor that is) contract Ebola themselves. There is no longer enough population in upstate NY to counteract anything that NYC wants.
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