Posted on 10/19/2014 4:24:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday dismissed President Obama’s newly appointed Ebola czar as a “political operative” without the medical background necessary for the job — and he urged Americans to ignore the judgment of government health officials because they “are repeating the administration’s talking points.”
Cruz is one of a number of politicians calling for a more drastic response to the disease which, to date, has infected two Americans, both nurses who cared directly for Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who contracted the disease in his home country and fell ill in Texas.
Cruz’ and other Republicans have called for a ban that would prevent travelers from the three West African countries currently being ravaged by the disease from entering the U.S. Appearing on CNN on Sunday morning, Cruz presented a travel ban as an obvious an effective means of preventing the spread of Ebola to the U.S.
Public health officials have said such a ban would be ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst. Asked by CNN host Candy Crowley about those criticisms, Cruz dismissed them.
“The doctors and the experts that are saying this are working for the administration and are repeating the administration’s talking points, and their arguments don’t make sense,” Cruz said.
In response to a question about what mistakes had been made in the Texas hospital where Duncan was treated that allowed the nurses to become infected, Cruz pivoted again to the travel ban. “The first mistake that was made was allowing Thomas Duncan get on an airplane and fly to the United States. If he hadn’t flown to the United States, none of the other mistakes would have happened,” Cruz said....
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Sure you can trust em. To lie.
Now how can the drug companies make any money with an attitude like that?
Go Ted go! Go Sarah go! Defund the CDC! Exterminate the FDA! Abolish the minimum wage! Stand up for State’s Rights! Let freedom ring! Woo hoo!
I think that more & more people are realizing this! Finally!!
Obama’s (fill in the blank) can’t be trusted...
Wow, excellent point! Now all of our representatives should in fact contact people in the medical field (literally and figuratively) and get the right protocol and have public announcements. Why can’t they? The administration ignores the Constitution, how about we hear from the Senate and the House and they tell us what the specialists are doing.
How about they ask the military doctors who have the responsibility of keeping the military safe. We have boots on the ground all around Africa. Of course, we are talking about natural diseases not man-caused like reactions to burn pits or agent orange.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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...
Thanks for the ping!
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