Will Ebola Be Death Knell for Democrats?

American Thinker ^ | October 4, 2014 | Karin McQuillan

[right-wing agnostic]

The Democrat/Progressive Party may be signing their own death certificate in the 2014 elections with their mishandling of Ebola. One and half million people are quarantined in Sierra Leone. The first case has hit America. And all Obama has done is make a speech saying everything is fine here, but he’s sending American troops into harm’s way there. A ghastly virus that kills 50-100% of its victims and has no known treatment is something people notice. It is something women notice. Ebola is creating an epidemic of fear, for good reason. The Democrat ruling elite’s complacency, incompetence and leftist pieties are losing them the public trust.

Have you seen the photos from the TV Dallas/Fort Worth chopper of workers cleaning the Ebola victim’s vomit from the sidewalk in front of his apartment building? The CDC has it under control -- they ordered the vomit to be power washed. The area is not cordoned off, the workers have no protective clothing, and passers-by are tracking through the water in sandals. The blogger who posted them comments: “from the casualness of the guys doing the power-washing, it is unlikely that (1) they put any disinfectants in the power-washer or (2) they were even told what they were cleaning.”

[Max in Utah]

Their members’ first and last purpose is reelection.

Career politicians will be the death of our republic. The average businessman would do a better job on our behalf.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Our government is filled with people who never worked, elected by people who never worked...

[srmorton]

Democrats are okay with some dead Americans. Americans in their own homes, sacrificed on the altar of liberal hubris about the power of government and political correctness. That doesn’t sound like the government we expect in America. We expect our government to go to extraordinary lengths to protect us, and we are not getting it.

Sadly, this is not the first time that the Federal Government and the CDC have treated an infectious disease like a political football. Most people outside the medical field do not know that they did the very same thing with HIV/AIDS. They knew that it was being spread primarily through sexual activity among gay males, but the gay and lesbian lobby did not want it to be treated like any other sexually transmitted disease.

Once a patient is diagnosed with gonorrhea, for example, he/she is questioned about their sexual contacts so that those people can be contacted and offered treatment as well. Not only were HIV patients not asked to reveal their contacts, for years they were allowed to remain anonymous for testing purposes. I will always believe that these deliberate, PC actions allowed the AIDS epidemic to spread in the US much more easily than it would have had traditional infectious control procedures been followed.

HIV/AIDS is a behaviorally spread disease; that is, if one avoids sexual contact with two groups (sexual/bisexual males and IV drug users), one has a reasonable expectation of avoiding infection. Ebola is quite another matter. Although it is not spread by aerosol inhalation, it can be spread by contact with even minute amounts of blood or body fluids from an infected person. The HIV/AIDs epidemic is now under control (no thanks to the CDC) and we now have excellent protocols for treating infected persons. An Ebola epidemic, should it occur, would not be so easily contained.

As a Medical Technologist, the response of the CDC and local authorities to this minor outbreak has made me concerned about their ability to contain the disease at all. Although I am not in "panic mode" by any means because I do have confidence in the ability of properly trained medical personnel to contain the disease once they encounter an infected person, I do not believe at all the claim that "patients without symptoms are not infectious". If a person is carrying the virus, they have the potential to transmit it to someone else. The existence of "carriers" (those who harbor an infectious organism but never show symptoms of active disease) is well documented with other diseases and I have no reason to believe that carriers could not exist in the case of Ebola.

[PJ-Comix]

Was that Dallas judge who entered the Ebola apartment sans protective clothing also placed into quarantine?

[BuffaloJack]

It may be politically incorrect, but they should put the family in a monitored quarantine facility. They should also spray chlorine bleach and lye outside the apartment onto anywhere the guy vomited, spit or even sneezed. To finish it off, the building and its contents should be burned.

[RatRipper]

Obama gave himself a security force in ADA and has Executive Ordered himself the right to declare martial law and detain people indefinitely in an “emergency. Now he has actively imported Central Americans, many of them bearing contagious diseases, and dispersed them around the country. Children are getting sick around the country with “mysterious” illnesses. Now he is refusing to restrict Ebola patients’ ingress into our country from foreign lands. Is there any question left as to what the Bioterrorist-in-Chief Obama is up to????? In response to a “public outcry”, he will declare a national emergency, probably before election day. Where that takes us does not take much imagination.

[PJ-Comix]

Can airlines themselves refuse allow passengers from West African nations to board? Without permission from the U.S. government?

[RetiredArmy]

I like the name used in the first of the article. I think that is what the Dimwitts should start calling themselves: The Democratic Peoples Socialist Progressive Party of Amerika.

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

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...

[null and void]

No because media and search engines will squash it

[mware]

NJ just had the first death of a child due to the new virus introduced within the last 5 months.

That hit home, and at the voting booth.

[mware]

Was that Dallas judge who entered the Ebola apartment sans protective clothing also placed into quarantine?

Don't know about the judge but the officers who had to issue the order, are now under observation.

Still don't know what the CDC's definition of observations is.

[RatRipper]

I cannot answer that with any authority. But from a practical standpoint, how many airlines open themselves up for a civil lawsuit claiming damages from someone who caught Ebola on one of their flights??? Were there not some flight restrictions with the flu scare a few years back??? May that have been a practice run by the government in preparation for this developing and,in my view, perpetrated situation. Consistent in this matter with Obama’s record, EVERY decision he makes is wrong-headed . . . even a dumb-a$$ gets something right every now and then just by accident.

[Patriot Babe]

I may be wrong but Typhoid Mary being the main carrier did NOT show symptoms of Thyphoid so she was easily spreading it around and she was stubborn in self quaratine so she was spreading it around until she was caught and was placed in forced isolation until her death.

[Nip]

When it comes to detecting Ebola the current ‘screening” process is totally ineffective. Duncan KNEW he had been exposed to Ebola but got on an airliner anyways after lying to the screeners.

That should be the model we use to develop effective screening procedures. Lacking effective screening procedures a strict quarantine is the only alternative.

Is a strict quarantine a pain? Yes it is. But then what price do you, personally, want to pay? Some people complaining about an inconvenience or reading friend’s and family’s names in the newspapers as either being quarantined or dead. BTW - both cases will require anyone who had contact with them to report for immediate medical screening on the penalty of arrest and detainment for the “public good”.

Right now we need to push two things.

First is the development and deployment of a rapid and extremely accurate Ebola screening capability. Since Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever this capability will require blood testing. (If that’s how the CDC confirms Ebola cases why not move this procedure to the “front of the line” instead of keeping it in the “back of the line” where it is today?).
This effort needs to be a NATIONAL SECURITY priority.

Second is the manufacture and stockpiling of ZMapp and similar, as yet undeveloped, drugs. I personally find it unacceptable that the only thing we can do for a person infected with a hemorrhagic fever is to provide supportive care. He either dies or gets better on his own. WRONG. Look what we did to polo in the 1940s and 1950s. Are our research scientists less capable that their grand fathers?This too needs to be a NATIONAL SECURITY priority.

BTW - making both efforts a National Security issue isn’t my idea, it has already been expressed by administration officials.

[abclily]

And our government has sent 3,000 of our finest to Liberia to become infected and bring Ebola home?

[Old Yeller]

Ebola will be a great opportunity to see how wonderful Obamacare works.

[RideForever]

Dumbocrats. Careless enough to bring Ebola to our shores.

Dumbocrats. Infecting our children with foreign invaders.

Any other bumper sticker slogans come to mind?

[Forward the Light Brigade]

We can only hope.

[Gamecock]

Nah.

The election will be cancelled because of the risk of contracting ebola.

It’s for our own good citizen.