Posted on 10/15/2014 5:13:56 PM PDT by Rockitz
There had never been a case of Ebola in the U.S. until a few months ago. Since then, thousands of people have died of the disease in Africa, and millions upon millions of dollars have been spent treating Ebola patients in the U.S. who acquired it there, one of whom has died.
But the Obama administration refuses to impose a travel ban.
This summer, the U.S. government imposed a travel ban on Israel simply to pressure Prime Minister Netanyahu into accepting a ceasefire agreement. But we can't put a travel restriction on countries where a contagious disease is raging.
It's becoming increasingly clear this is just another platform for Obama to demonstrate that we are citizens of the world. The entire Ebola issue is being discussed -- by our government, not the United Nations -- as if Liberians are indistinguishable from Americans, and U.S. taxpayers should be willing to pay whatever it takes to save them.
Maybe we should give them the vote, too! If Ebola was concentrated in Finland and Norway -- certainly Israel! -- we'd have had a travel ban on Day One.
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Frieden, justifies Obama's refusal to prohibit flights originating in Ebola-plagued countries, saying, "A travel ban is not the right answer. It's simply not feasible to build a wall -- virtual or real -- around a community, city or country."
What is it with liberals living in gated communities always telling us that fences don't work? THAT'S WHAT A QUARANTINE IS.
At the congressional hearing on Ebola last week, Republicans repeatedly pressed the CDC representative, Dr. Toby Merlin, to explain why Obama refuses to impose a travel ban.
In about 17 tries, Merlin came up with no plausible answer. Like Frieden, Merlin kept insisting that "the only way to protect Americans" is to end the epidemic in Africa.
Why, precisely, must we attack Ebola in Africa? Research on a cure doesn't require cuddling victims in their huts. Scientists who discovered the AIDS cocktail didn't spend their nights at Studio 54 in order to "fight the disease at its source."
Until there's a treatment, we can't put out the disease there, or here. The only thing Americans will be doing in Liberia is changing the bedpans of victims, getting infected and bringing Ebola back to America. When there's a vaccine, we can mail it.
Naturally, Obama is sending troops from the 101st Airborne, the pride of our Army, to Liberia. Their general should resign in protest.
Merlin further explained the travel ban, saying that if West Africans can't fly to America, "that would cause the disease to grow in that area and spill over into other countries." So instead of infecting people in surrounding countries, our CDC wants them to come here and infect Americans.
But that won't happen because the government assures us there's nothing to worry about with Ebola. They've got it under control.
Unfortunately, everything the government says about this disease keeps being proved untrue -- usually within a matter of days.
They told us that you'd basically have to roll in an infected person's vomit to catch the disease. Then, nurses at two first-world hospitals in Spain and the U.S. contracted Ebola from patients.
With no evidence, the CDC simply announced that the nurses were not following proper "protocol." The disease didn't operate the way CDC said it would, so the hospitals must be lying.
The government told us that national quarantines won't work, but then they quarantine everyone with Ebola -- or who has been near someone with Ebola, such as an entire NBC crew. To me, this suggests that there's some value in keeping people who have been near Ebola away from people who have not.
Quite obviously, the only way to protect Americans is to prevent Ebola from coming here in the first place. The problem isn't that Ebola will leap across oceans to infect Americans; it's that Obama doesn't want to protect Americans.
At least he's only putting expendable Americans on the frontlines of the Ebola epidemic -- doctors, nurses, members of the 101st Airborne.
At the moment, more than 13,000 West Africans have travel visas to come to the U.S. Having just seen an Ebola-infected Liberian get $500,000 worth of free medical treatment in the U.S., the first thing any African who might have Ebola should do is get himself to America.
Of all the reasons people have for coming here -- welfare, drug-dealing, Medicare scams -- "I have Ebola and I'm going to die, otherwise" is surely one of the strongest. The entire continent of Africa now knows that this is a country that will happily spend half a million dollars on treating someone who just arrived -- and then berate itself for not doing enough.
Thomas Eric Duncan's family may be upset with his treatment, but they have to admit, the price was right. Medical bill: $0.00. Your next statement will arrive in 30 days.
And now we're going to have to let in entire families with Ebola, because the important thing is -- actually, I don't know why. It's some technical, scientific point about fences not working.
Republicans -- Americans -- have got to demand Frieden's resignation. If only we could demand Obama's.
This country is too deep in debt to even have the funds to fight a Civil War 2.
Texas, let’s just secede and sell oil and energy to the other 47 states at exorbitant prices. Kick out all liberals and muzzies. Give them the choice to convert to conservatism, leave Texas or face death.
AK can take care of itself and HI can just suck up to WDC and the dhimmicraps until they come up with the real Obama BC.
Wassamatter, you think I’m too severe?
They’re gonna have a helluva a hard time walking back the decision not to shut off the flights from West Africa.
“But we can’t put a travel restriction on countries where a contagious disease is raging.”
Well, if you understand how much Buckwheat hates honkeys, it becomes more clear. Buckwheat the racist wants mobs of infected Africans to overwhelm America and murder millions of white people, especially children and babies which represent the future of the white race.
Why do you think Buckwheat will never object to black savages attacking and murdering old, white veterans. He wants you dead if you’re white.
The problem there is that liberals are allowed to leave their estates and infect the general populace with their Progressivola.
I finally agree with Ann coulter again.
Head of Nurses United was just on tv. She blamed Ebola on - profits.
“What is it with liberals living in gated communities always telling us that fences don’t work?”
And some mod—conservatives too, Ann.
I read this morning that Michael Savage is taking heat for saying that Obama intentionally is bringing Eobla into the United States. This is one time that we cannot separate intentions from actions. He is allowing, and our elected leaders insist on bequeathing him that authority (and why?) to allow a pandemic fatal disease into the United States. He is doing it in the full light of knowledge. Therefore, that is his intent. He is willing to cripple the United States to any degree the disease will bring about. That is his hope and change.
The people voted for this fundamental transformation twice.
Can we survive that? I think not.
We (thinkers) are way outnumbered. I have lost hope.
Psalm 91
1 You who live in the secret place of Elyon, spend your nights in the shelter of Shaddai,
2 saying to Yahweh, ‘My refuge, my fortress, my God in whom I trust!’
3 He rescues you from the snare of the fowler set on destruction;
4 he covers you with his pinions, you find
shelter under his wings. His constancy is shield and protection.
5 You need not fear the terrors of night, the arrow that flies in the daytime,
6 the plague that stalks in the darkness, the scourge that wreaks havoc at high noon.
7 Though a thousand fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, you yourself will remain unscathed.
8 You have only to keep your eyes open to see how the wicked are repaid,
9 you who say, ‘Yahweh my refuge!’ and make Elyon your fortress.
10 No disaster can overtake you, no plague come near your tent;
11 he has given his angels orders about you to guard you wherever you go.
12 They will carry you in their arms in case you trip over a stone.
13 You will walk upon wild beast and adder, you will trample young lions and snakes.
14 ‘Since he clings to me I rescue him, I raise him high, since he acknowledges my name.
15 He calls to me and I answer him: in distress I am at his side, I rescue him and bring him honour.
16 I shall satisfy him with long life, and grant him to see my salvation.’
This part bears repeating, because many versions are milquetoast, and tend to parse the strength of the original version:
6 “The plague that stalks in the darkness, the scourge that wreaks havoc at high noon.”
I hope that fellow Freepers will keep this version on hand, and recall that we are to meditate on the law and word of the Lord day and night.
Amen!
We must pass Ebola to know what’s in it.
Powerful! Thank you.
I agree with Ann C. except where she says we can’t demand Obama’s resignation. I can and do. Obama - RESIGN! TONIGHT! Report to an Ebola treatment center in Liberia to work as an orderly.
Obama obviously wants more Ebola to come to America. His empty assurances that chances are there will not be a “serious outbreak” is callous and repugnant. Two heroic nurses in Dallas contracted Ebola, and will quite possibly die, due to his foolishness. Is that not serious? Are they, our troops sent to Liberia, and who knows how many others, expendable to make some PC statement? Obama’s dithering and fecklessness will kill many people unnecessarily before this is over, and will devastate the economy. Why can’t Congress and the Senate legislate travel restrictions? We can’t leave something this serious in the hands of the world’s least competent man.
The thing is, they (WHO? CDC? I’m not sure) have figured out the outbreak started in late 2013 somewhere in Africa. One would think Obama could have been briefed about it several months ago. /rhetorical to no one in particular
What difference at this point does it make? /sarc
“But the Obama administration refuses to impose a travel ban.”
How is they can impose a travel ban through the TSA on the American nurses that helped care for Duncan; but they cannot place a travel ban on all those who have been to West Africa?
Obama is a POSPOTUS.
“platform for Obama to demonstrate that we are citizens of the world.”
What should we expect. The POSPOTUS we have was put in office by the Soros gang, and they are borderless, one world government fanatics as dangerous to the USA as radical Islam.
So, does Ann know something we don't know or is she begging the question...
Who in the hell says we can't? Or better yet, just "resign" him ourselves?
There is a way to do that, isn't there?
Coulter is spot-on with this. Obama should be tried for treason. Every American death due to Ebola is on Obama.
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