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Ebola Doc's Condition Downgraded to 'Idiotic'
Townhall.com ^ | August 6, 2014 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 08/06/2014 1:07:12 PM PDT by Kaslin

I wonder how the Ebola doctor feels now that his humanitarian trip has cost a Christian charity much more than any services he rendered.

What was the point?

Whatever good Dr. Kent Brantly did in Liberia has now been overwhelmed by the more than $2 million already paid by the Christian charities Samaritan's Purse and SIM USA just to fly him and his nurse home in separate Gulfstream jets, specially equipped with medical tents, and to care for them at one of America's premier hospitals. (This trip may be the first real-world demonstration of the economics of Obamacare.)

There's little danger of an Ebola plague breaking loose from the treatment of these two Americans at the Emory University Hospital. But why do we have to deal with this at all?

Why did Dr. Brantly have to go to Africa? The very first "risk factor" listed by the Mayo Clinic for Ebola -- an incurable disease with a 90 percent fatality rate -- is: "Travel to Africa."

Can't anyone serve Christ in America anymore?

No -- because we're doing just fine. America, the most powerful, influential nation on Earth, is merely in a pitched battle for its soul.

About 15,000 people are murdered in the U.S. every year. More than 38,000 die of drug overdoses, half of them from prescription drugs. More than 40 percent of babies are born out of wedlock. Despite the runaway success of "midnight basketball," a healthy chunk of those children go on to murder other children, rape grandmothers, bury little girls alive -- and then eat a sandwich. A power-mad president has thrown approximately 10 percent of all Americans off their health insurance -- the rest of you to come! All our elite cultural institutions laugh at virginity and celebrate promiscuity.

So no, there's nothing for a Christian to do here.

If Dr. Brantly had practiced at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles and turned one single Hollywood power-broker to Christ, he would have done more good for the entire world than anything he could accomplish in a century spent in Liberia. Ebola kills only the body; the virus of spiritual bankruptcy and moral decadence spread by so many Hollywood movies infects the world.

If he had provided health care for the uninsured editors, writers, videographers and pundits in Gotham and managed to open one set of eyes, he would have done more good than marinating himself in medieval diseases of the Third World.

Of course, if Brantly had evangelized in New York City or Los Angeles, The New York Times would get upset and accuse him of anti-Semitism, until he swore -- as the pope did -- that you don't have to be a Christian to go to heaven. Evangelize in Liberia, and the Times' Nicholas Kristof will be totally impressed.

Which explains why American Christians go on "mission trips" to disease-ridden cesspools. They're tired of fighting the culture war in the U.S., tired of being called homophobes, racists, sexists and bigots. So they slink off to Third World countries, away from American culture to do good works, forgetting that the first rule of life on a riverbank is that any good that one attempts downstream is quickly overtaken by what happens upstream.

America is the most consequential nation on Earth, and in desperate need of God at the moment. If America falls, it will be a thousand years of darkness for the entire planet.

Not only that, but it's our country. Your country is like your family. We're supposed to take care of our own first. The same Bible that commands us to "go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel" also says: "For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, 'You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.'"

Right there in Texas, near where Dr. Brantly left his wife and children to fly to Liberia and get Ebola, is one of the poorest counties in the nation, Zavala County -- where he wouldn't have risked making his wife a widow and his children fatherless.

But serving the needy in some deadbeat town in Texas wouldn't have been "heroic." We wouldn't hear all the superlatives about Dr. Brantly's "unusual drive to help the less fortunate" or his membership in the "Gold Humanism Honor Society." Leaving his family behind in Texas to help the poor 6,000 miles away -- that's the ticket.

Today's Christians are aces at sacrifice, amazing at serving others, but strangely timid for people who have been given eternal life. They need to buck up, serve their own country, and remind themselves every day of Christ's words: "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you."

There may be no reason for panic about the Ebola doctor, but there is reason for annoyance at Christian narcissism.


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To: ansel12

A vomiting walk in in a Tucson ER might wait for HOURS before they see her. I know from experience.


101 posted on 08/06/2014 2:31:39 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: Kaslin

How long will it take for Ann to stick the other foot in her mouth.


102 posted on 08/06/2014 2:32:00 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Kaslin

Ann,

Narcissism refers to self love. How does this ultimate level of sacrifice qualify in anyway as selfishness? It is true that the execution of their mission should be heavily criticized. Lots of shortcuts were taken and it is doubtful that everyone involved was properly trained. The methods and procedures should be criticized and learned from and those who made these mistakes have paid dearly in life and coin, but the act of self sacrifice is nothing but virtuous.


103 posted on 08/06/2014 2:33:14 PM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: Cecily

True. Which means there is a good chance the disease is vectoring well beyond those countries.


104 posted on 08/06/2014 2:34:55 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: Kaslin

Her commentary is so vile it makes me wonder about her sanity. She has turned into a self-righteous prig Id like to know how much of her time and money is spent addressing the ills here that she thinks OTHERS should donate their time and resources on.


105 posted on 08/06/2014 2:38:01 PM PDT by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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To: Kaslin
Ann is so wrong. Dr. Brantly is a family practice doctor who joined Samaritan's Purse in Liberia last October to practice family medicine in Africa. He had just completed his residency and wanted to be a missionary. His family moved with him. He didn't abandon them to contract Ebola and leave his wife a widow in Texas.

His wife had flown home for a family wedding and he had planned to join them, but became sick. The Ebola outbreak started in March and Dr. Brantly was thrown into the situation and acted heroically. He stepped up to treat the Ebola patients in a special ward he set up in a hospital chapel. He was not an exotic infectious disease specialist and tried his best to help the people in Africa.

They do not wear those special suits 24/7 and a colleague probably infected both him and Mrs. Writebol when they were not wearing the special suits. It is Africa and hard to fight a deadly virus in primitive conditions where they do not have access to the most basic medical supplies.

I'm proud Dr. Brantly stepped up to help these people in their desperate condition. I would have run as fast as possible at the first mention of Ebola. We have the facilities to safely help them in Atlanta, so we should do the right thing. Samaritan’s Purse spent millions to get them safely here, but I'm sure many, many people are writing checks right now to help them. I will be.

If this virus is so deadly that the special unit at Emory can't contain it with the best infectious disease doctors in the world, then this virus is going to kill everyone anyway. I'm betting on the doctors at Emory though and glad that Brantly and Writebol have consented to be test subjects so they can learn more about this deadly virus. They really are heroes and deserve our best.

Shame on your Ann.

106 posted on 08/06/2014 2:38:45 PM PDT by BloomNTn (#Carr Not Lamar in Tn)
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To: ansel12

In my mind, I think it sends the wrong message bringing people with Ebola into a country that officially had no cases.


107 posted on 08/06/2014 2:49:06 PM PDT by grania
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To: Kaslin
I'm not too fond of Coulter anymore, and although some of her statements are rather harsh, she has some good points.

Statements I approve:

Can't anyone serve Christ in America anymore?

-- because we're doing just fine. America, the most powerful, influential nation on Earth, is merely in a pitched battle for its soul.

About 15,000 people are murdered in the U.S. every year. More than 38,000 die of drug overdoses, half of them from prescription drugs. More than 40 percent of babies are born out of wedlock. Despite the runaway success of "midnight basketball," a healthy chunk of those children go on to murder other children, rape grandmothers, bury little girls alive -- and then eat a sandwich. A power-mad president has thrown approximately 10 percent of all Americans off their health insurance -- the rest of you to come! All our elite cultural institutions laugh at virginity and celebrate promiscuity.

So no, there's nothing for a Christian to do here.

If Dr. Brantly had practiced at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles and turned one single Hollywood power-broker to Christ, he would have done more good for the entire world than anything he could accomplish in a century spent in Liberia. Ebola kills only the body; the virus of spiritual bankruptcy and moral decadence spread by so many Hollywood movies infects the world.

If he had provided health care for the uninsured editors, writers, videographers and pundits in Gotham and managed to open one set of eyes, he would have done more good than marinating himself in medieval diseases of the Third World.

Which explains why American Christians go on "mission trips" to disease-ridden cesspools. They're tired of fighting the culture war in the U.S., tired of being called homophobes, racists, sexists and bigots. So they slink off to Third World countries, away from American culture to do good works, forgetting that the first rule of life on a riverbank is that any good that one attempts downstream is quickly overtaken by what happens upstream.

America is the most consequential nation on Earth, and in desperate need of God at the moment. If America falls, it will be a thousand years of darkness for the entire planet.

Not only that, but it's our country. Your country is like your family. We're supposed to take care of our own first. The same Bible that commands us to "go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel" also says: "For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, 'You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.'"

Right there in Texas, near where Dr. Brantly left his wife and children to fly to Liberia and get Ebola, is one of the poorest counties in the nation, Zavala County -- where he wouldn't have risked making his wife a widow and his children fatherless.

But serving the needy in some deadbeat town in Texas wouldn't have been "heroic." We wouldn't hear all the superlatives about Dr. Brantly's "unusual drive to help the less fortunate" or his membership in the "Gold Humanism Honor Society." Leaving his family behind in Texas to help the poor 6,000 miles away -- that's the ticket.

Today's Christians are aces at sacrifice, amazing at serving others, but strangely timid for people who have been given eternal life. They need to buck up, serve their own country, and remind themselves every day of Christ's words: "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you."

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As she said, 'charity begins at home'.

This country is in bad shape, there are too many sick and needy of our own to care for before flying off to Africa to care for their needs.

Same goes for Bill Gates and other billionaires who pour millions into foreign countries. Help our own first!

And cut off government aid to foreign countries who hate us:

The average American hasn’t a CLUE how much of our tax money Obama has sent down Muslim sh*t holes while he plans to slash the military, CUTS MEDICARE and threatens to withhold senior’s social security checks!

BILLIONS FOR JIHAD! Obamas 2009 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Pandemic Flu was revised and passed by the full committee. It gives billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to countries and entities that support Sharia law and/or harbor, hide and support those who want to destroy the U.S. and our allies. http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/05/1...

Read the summary from David Obeys office that was quietly released last week with nary a word from any media.

$3.6 BILLION, matching the request, to expand and improve capabilities of the Afghan security forces

$400 MILLION, as requested, to build the counterinsurgency capabilities of the Pakistani security forces

AFGHANISTAN: $1.52 BILLION, $86 MILLION above the request WEST BANK AND GAZA: $665 MILLION in bilateral economic, humanitarian, and security assistance for the West Bank and Gaza

JORDAN: $250 million,$250 million above the request, including $100 million for economic and $150 million for security assistance

EGYPT: $360 MILLION, $310 million above the request, including $50 million for economic assistance,$50 million for border security, and $260 million for security assistance

PAKISTAN:$1.9 billion,$591 million above the request

IRAQ:$968 MILLION,$336 million above the request

Oversight: $20 million,$13 million above the request, to expand oversight capacity of the State Department, USAID, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan to review programs in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq

Lebanon:$74 million

International Food Assistance:$500 MILLION,$200 million above the request, for PL 480 international food assistance to alleviate suffering during the global economic crisis

REFUGEE ASSISTANCE:$343 MILLION,$50 million above the request, including humanitarian assistance for Gaza.

Funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency programs in the West Bank and Gaza is limited to $119 million (Note: Gaza = Hamas)

Disaster Assistance: $200 MILLION to avert famines and provide life-saving assistance during natural disasters and for internally displaced people around the world, including Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the Middle East and South Asia

Peacekeeping:$837 MILLION FOR UNITED NATIONS peacekeeping operations, including an expanded mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a new mission in Chad and the Central African Republic

Department of Justice: $17 million, matching the request, for counter-terrorism activities and to provide training and assistance for the Iraqi criminal justice system

OBAMA GIVES YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO REBUILD MUSLIM MOSQUES AROUND THE WORLD! http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/... #

ACCORDING TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL GIVE AWAY NEARLY $6 MILLION OF AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS TO RESTORE 63 HISTORIC AND CULTURAL SITES, INCLUDING ISLAMIC MOSQUES AND MINARETS, IN 55 NATIONS. See the State Department document here. http://exchanges.state.gov/media/pdfs/office-...

And THAT’S just the tip of the iceberg.

THIS will blow your mind!! http://gbk.eads.usaidallnet.gov/ They should have 2010 up, but they don’t. That’s where you’ll find Obama’s largesse towards Muslim countries really go off the charts.

http://www.foreignassistance.gov/DataView.aspx charts: http://gbk.eads.usaidallnet.gov/data/fast-facts.html .

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Obama Increased Foreign Aid 80%; Spent 76% More on Foreign Aid Than Border Security cnsnews

CNSNews.com) - From fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2011, according to the U.S. Treasury, the federal government increased spending on foreign aid by 80 percent and, in fiscal 2011, spent 76 percent more on foreign aid than it did securing the borders of the United States.

In fiscal 2008, the government spent a total of $11.427 billion in international assistance programs, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement. In fiscal 2011, according to the statement, it spent $20.599 billion—an increase of $9.172 billion, or 80 percent, from 2008.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-increased-foreign-aid-80-spent-76-more-foreign-aid-border-security

Just think what we could do for America and our own people if these billions poured into sh*thole countries who hate us were kept at home to help our own ! !

108 posted on 08/06/2014 2:58:27 PM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: grania

You sure are sending a message.

But why do you think that this doctor is the deciding factor on whether Ebola arrives in America or not?

If the Ebola center can treat these two safely, then what?


109 posted on 08/06/2014 2:58:37 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: BloomNTn
If this virus is so deadly that the special unit at Emory can't contain it with the best infectious disease doctors in the world, then this virus is going to kill everyone anyway.

Exactly.

110 posted on 08/06/2014 3:01:33 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: Kaslin
According to the WHO, in 2012, approximately 627,000 Africans died from Malaria, mostly children............
111 posted on 08/06/2014 3:05:31 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Is there such a thing as a vegan zombie?)
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To: RinaseaofDs

I think the ignorance of Ann is stunning and I think your fears are irrational. I work in hospitals on a daily basis and have as much fear of Ebola as I do of KmRSA. Which is none. Respect and common sense is good. Phobia is bad. Amn is phobic. Are you as well?


112 posted on 08/06/2014 3:09:15 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Hot Tabasco

I am not sure if I would believe anything from the WHO


113 posted on 08/06/2014 3:10:50 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: ansel12

They have irrational fears. Influenza is more dangerous than Ebola and has claimed countless note lives. I just do not get it any note.


114 posted on 08/06/2014 3:11:54 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Godzilla

I wasn’t sure if I should have added a barf alert. It looks like I should have


115 posted on 08/06/2014 3:12:54 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: grania

Ebola had been in the country for many years. Do has satin, vx, influenza, small pox and the plague to name a handful of things that can kill you.


116 posted on 08/06/2014 3:14:44 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07

Okay, what’s the R0 of Ebola Guinea?

That’s all I need, and I won’t be afraid.


117 posted on 08/06/2014 3:16:29 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (.)
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To: ansel12
If the center can save them, that's great. I just don't get bringing a potentially pandemic disease into the US. Now, are people in Africa who've been exposed going to assume they have a better chance of survival if they come to the US?

I want these two to live, of course. The best outcome is that this leads to a vaccine. It's the part about moving the disease to a place that isn't infected that's bothersome.

118 posted on 08/06/2014 3:18:32 PM PDT by grania
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To: Kaslin
The problem in this country is not a lack of Christian missionaries. The problem is the US government. It is busy throwing hundreds of billions of dollars down the bottomless "poverty" rat-holes which are mostly problems brought about by non-Christian behavior. It is not making a dent. In fact, they are spreading the misery and destruction far and wide by their stupid and unchristian polices. It's like throwing grenades into an Ebola ward thinking it will cure the problem. But all it does is spread the blood and wretched offal further afield to infect even more people.

"Official" government welfare and compassion are almost as deadly to the human spirit as Ebola is to the body. It just kills and mutates it.

Ann should stick to subjects she knows more about like Chris Christie, diets, and hair primping.

119 posted on 08/06/2014 3:18:47 PM PDT by Gritty (Obama's governing as president of a Latin American republic, where only the president matters-MSteyn)
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To: Kaslin

The two aid workers with ebola were allowed into this country to move 60,000 kids with chicken pox out of the news and insignificant.


120 posted on 08/06/2014 3:19:19 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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