Posted on 12/22/2014 7:24:26 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
Though it's taken a backseat to Ferguson and the Sony hacking story, the Ebola virus remains a threat in the United States.
According to Fox News Channel's investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson, who recently reached out to the Centers for Disease Control, the agency is still very much involved in monitoring individuals for the deadly African-borne virus. The problem, says Attkisson, is that the CDC is covering up the numbers, presumably to minimize panic across the United States.
Attkinson says that following the appointment of Ebola Czar Ron Klain, media involvement became almost non-existent because the government stopped releasing statistics and granting interviews in an effort to control the news.
The infectious disease experts I consulted were and remain very concerned about this because if it gets out of control in this country, we will not be able to deal with it.
A lot of the media coverage has gone from overtime to almost nothing since they appointed the Ebola Czar, and I don't think that's any accident – I think it's a strategy.
There's a good argument to be made that things were made safer… the reason we don't have a worst case scenario today as far as we know is because there was media coverage… a public outcry… that totally changed the way the government was handling the Ebola crisis…
Once the Ebola Czar came in, they quit putting out the head of the CDC… no more interviews. Someone decided, I think, when we give information they cover it. When we don't give information it will fall off the stage and it largely did.
I called CDC not long ago and asked how many active cases are being monitored in the United States of Ebola, and they said 1,400.
I said, 'where is that on your web site?' They said 'We're not putting it on the web.'
I think there is an effort to control the message and to tamp it down. This is public information and we have the right to know and I think the media should not hype it, but cover it.
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/12/ebola-cover-cdc-monitoring-1400-active-cases-government-effort-control-message/#KJfcqDHfD9KEQdBW.99
Funny how people got hung up on “cases” but missed “monitored” vs “treated”.
I doubt it too, what I do feel though, is that there are plenty of people that are being monitored for possible symptoms that did work in the hot zone for some time.
No way. That number would fill the infectious disease wards in who-knows how many hospitals.
All of which would have to be staffed by hundreds, if not thousands of nurses and hundreds of doctors.
The waste from Ebola patients has to be specially treated, and so dozens or hundreds of waste management people would be involved.
Unusually large orders of cleaning supplies, bunny suits, full face masks, and so on. More work for the janitorial staff, too. All requiring more people to notice what was going on, and keep their mouths shut.
And not even one of those hundreds or thousands of people say something to the media or on FB or tell their relatives?
No way. You can’t have a conspiracy of hundreds or thousands.
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