Science: Nobel Prize-winning doctor backs Chris Christie’s quarantine plan

Hotair ^ | 10/30/2014 | Noah Rothman

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This administration is fond of saying that its policy of opposing quarantining health care workers who may have come in contact with Ebola but embracing the internment of American soldiers in the same condition is based on “science.”

Administration officials reportedly berated Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie for imposing a mandatory 21-day quarantine on potentially symptomatic care workers who were exposed to Ebola by saying that this policy “doesn’t comport with science.”

White House Press Sec. Josh Earnest insisted that the president’s administration acquiesced to the quarantining of American soldiers who served in Ebola-affected regions only because they had let “science drive the process.”

On Wednesday, Barack Obama expressed how America’s response to the Ebola crisis has made him “frustrated.” In a veiled reference to the governors of New Jersey and New York (and now California and New Hampshire, which has also imposed a 21-day in-home quarantine on residents of those states who have had contact with Ebola-afflicted patients in West Africa), Obama said Americans are not known for “hiding under the covers” in the face of a threat.

“We don’t want to do things that aren’t based on science and best practices,” the president insisted.

The administration’s blatantly contradictory quarantining policies may not be so offensive if they did not defend them with by merely shrieking “science” condescendingly at their dissenters. The implication is clear: ours is a policy based on rationality and reason, and those who disagree are shedding common sense and succumbing to their reptilian instincts.

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http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/10/christies_quarantine_policy_attacked_by_aclu_cdc_and_even_the_un_is_embraced_by_2011_nobel_prize_win.html#incart_river

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Christie’s controversial Ebola quarantine now embraced by Nobel Prize-winning doctor

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After days of blistering criticism from the ACLU, the CDC and even the United Nations secretary general over Gov. Chris Christie’s new, 21-day mandatory quarantine policy for all healthcare workers exposed to Ebola, the New Jersey governor has gotten a much-needed vote of support from a heavyweight name in the medical community: Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical researcher, Dr. Bruce Beutler.

Dr. Beutler, an American medical doctor and researcher, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 2011 for his work researching the cellular subsystem of the body’s overall immune system — the part of it that defends the body from infection by other organisms, like Ebola.

He is currently the Director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas — the first U.S. city to treat an Ebola patient and also the first to watch one die from the virus. In an exclusive interview with NJ Advance Media, Beutler reviewed Christie’s new policy of mandatory quarantine for all health care workers exposed to Ebola, and declared: “I favor it.”

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Thaaaaaaaat’s one o’ them-there extremist scientists.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

"Excuse me, Excuse me, but what does a God want with Ebola?"

"Dammit Jim, you don't ask the Almighty his reasons!"

"I said....WHAT does God need with Ebola?"

"YOU DARE QUESTION ME? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I AM THE ONE!"

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It doesn’t matter that he’s a Nobel Prize winner and a specialist in a relevant area. The MSM will ignore him because he’s not saying what our rulers want him to say.

If he does get “traction” — meaning someone in the MSM clips a mic on him and points a camera at him, the rest will circle the wagons and be able to discredit him because of his association with a university hospital in Texas instead of a Northeastern Ivy.

Watch and see.