Democratic Rep: This Kaci Hickox dustup is just like the Terri Schiavo case

Hot Air ^ | October 30, 2014 | Noah Rothman

[2ndDivisionVet]

This clip confirms the extent to which condescension on the left has replaced efforts to convince those skeptical of the medical community’s assessment of Ebola’s communicability of their error.

In an appearance on CNN on Thursday, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) sought to assure the viewing audience that everyone (including, presumably, the Democratic governors of California, New Hampshire, and New York) is overreacting to the threat of Ebola.

When probed by anchor Carol Costello as to why the president’s freshly appointed “Ebola Czar,” Ron Klain, has not come out publicly and assured the nation that there is no medical need to impose a quarantine on health care workers returning from Africa, Cohen embodied the uncritical deference to the White House characteristic of those scoffing at quarantine proponents when he insisted that he was “sure there’s a good reason” for Klain’s silence.

Cohen proceeded to go off on an ill-advised rant and equated the 80 percent who support isolating those returning from Ebola-affected regions of Africa to those denying the existence of climate change. But for someone as assured of his own in his own deliberative abilities as Cohen appears to be, he certainly did not convince his audience of this supposed aptitude when he compared the quarantining of Kaci Hickox to the Terri Schiavo case.

“I think this is strictly driven by politics, and I think we’ll look upon it one day like Terri Schiavo,” the Democratic congressman insisted.

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Where to begin?

Townhall’s Christine Rousselle may have countered Cohen’s assertion most succinctly…

[2ndDivisionVet]

Wow.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I think Terry Schaivo is just like ISIS. Right?

[Scrambler Bob]

But Terry is dead.

ISIS is not.

Not even on life suport.

[MUDDOG]

“Ebola Czar,” Ron Klain

That makes Kaci Hickox Anastasia.

[TigersEye]

I’m confused. Is Steve Cohen saying he wants to starve Kaci Hickox to death?

[combat_boots]

Bull

[Ray76]

What an ignoramus. Unlike Hickox, Schiavo posed no threat to public health.

[BigEdLB]

One is brain-dead and the other lived in Florida.

[Ray76]

Obama issued Executive Order 13674, July 31, 2014, revising the list of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases to include common respiratory disease such as pneumonia. It also provides for the quarantining of healthy persons who may have been exposed to such diseases.

The E.O. as it appears on the Whitehouse website:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/31/executive-order-revised-list-quarantinable-communicable-diseases

As the E.O. appears in the Federal Register:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-08-06/pdf/2014-18682.pdf

[billhilly]

More like Sandra Fluke. It’s time to stir up the left wing voters.

[Organic Panic]

Death cult leftists wanted desperately to kill Teri Schiavo.

Now:
Death cult leftists want desperately to kill the rest of us.

[mwl8787]

GOP should nail this ass_ole

[Missouri gal]

Outrageous. Obama is a dictator who now pretends to be a medical expert? He can only get away with this on the total lack of courage of the pubbie leadership. What percentage of Americans even believe the Dictator is the legitimate POTUS? Yet he presumes!

[EQAndyBuzz]

Three liberal states and add New Jersey that makes 4.

Sounds like the rats want o take away people’s freedoms.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[firebrand]

In this case the states are doing the right thing and thee feds are on the wrong track.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[null and void]

Noooooo, only one person was at risk of dying in the Terri Schiavo case.

At least at first...

[null and void]

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...)

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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...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]