Posted on 10/29/2014 10:20:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The White House is launching an aggressive, public campaign to counter the movement of some states most notably New York and New Jersey to quarantine American health care professionals who return from treating Ebola victims in West Africa.
Obama made an unscheduled statement on the South Lawn this afternoon to highlight what he said was the need to support health care workers when they return home, support which presumably would not include isolating them. And in a staged event designed to draw attention to the issue, Obama will meet at the White House Wednesday with a group of health care professionals who have been treating Ebola patients.
The combative, almost political nature of the effort suggests the fingerprints of Ebola coordinator Ron Klain, whose background is as a Democratic political operative. Nevertheless, the aggressive nature of the campaign also suggests the White House has concluded that quarantining health workers could have disastrous consequences for the effort to quash the disease.
The president today repeatedly insisted the protocols for the health workers should be guided by science and facts, implying that the moves to quarantine health workers were ultimately irrational.
America in the end is not defined by fear, Obama said. We dont just react based on our fears we react based on judgments.
Obama pressed the case that hampering the ability of U.S. health care workers to head to West Africa and back would imperil worldwide efforts to stop the disease before it gets to the United States.
If we dont have robust response in West Africa, we are endangering ourselves at home, he said. They are doing Gods work over there, and theyre doing that to keep us safe.
*sigh*
He really isn't one of US.
Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......
(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Everything the community organizer does is driven by politics. Everything. And that explains why every decision he has made as the nations Executive has been flat out wrong. How many times must this fool fail before even the idiots see the problem ?
I think that he is more sinister than not being bright enough. Everything in that man's nature is geared to do what is against the right thing to do. He does everything God hates.
Ebola won’t weaken the economy. It will destroy it. The destruction has already begun.
Ping!
Apparently not. Dr. Spencer went bowling and jogging while experiencing fatigue (his first symptoms), if I remember correctly. He only sought help when he got a fever.
Thanks for the ping!
True, but it’s still a relatively small number of folks who know what to do. If he’s like any normal person, he went jogging because he felt ok. Contrast to Duncan who was puking around the apartment and sitting on the can all night but had to be talked into going back to the hospital by the GF’s daughter.
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