Posted on 10/03/2014 11:41:10 AM PDT by xzins
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a licensed physician and a possible presidential candidate in 2016, is warning that handling Ebola in a politically correct manner will rebound.
In an interview with radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, he said decisions such as keeping travel open from Africa and sending soldiers to fight Ebola “have been dominated by political correctness.”
“Because of political correctness, we’re not making sound, rational, scientific decisions on this,” he said.
Joinging the program by telephone from the campaign trail for Republicans, he started with a quip.
“I can’t believe that you don’t think it’s enough of a plan to prevent worldwide pandemic to cough into your elbow,” he told Ingraham. “Surely that should stop a worldwide pandemic.”
He noted the diseased, diagnosed this week for the first time in the U.S., remains out of control in West Africa after killing more than 3,300.
He pointed out the head of the Centers for Disease Control just a month ago said there was no need to limit travel from Africa to New York, saying, “This will never come to the U.S.,” and, “We know what we are doing. Trust us.”
“I think … we should not underestimate the transmissibility of this,” Paul said. “Think about the people who are getting this … the doctors and nurses who are gloved, gowned and masked.”
He said there are “people getting it who simply helped someone get in and out of a taxicab.”
“So it’s a big mistake to underestimate this,” he said.
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But aren’t they just coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers?
keep your hands to yourself, wash everything down.
Common sense.
Don’t mess with body fluids and they deadliest diseases won’t kill you.
Be responsible and if you have a boil or open wound, take care of it and don’t touch others.
I already have imagined it.
It was not pleasant.
Imagine ship full of U.S. soldiers with Ebola
Obama would like 2 ships
Paul is an idiot.
And don’t breath the air they breathed, and don’t stir up any dust in the rooms they inhabited.
Someone needs to stick a sock in Paul’s mouth.
Paul might not be my favorite politician, but he is an MD and a very bright man.
Why? He’s telling the truth about ebola.
You like Ebola?
You must have a sock between your ears!
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Yes, idiots become MDs every day.
Or, at least idiots think so!
John Lennen’s Imagine.
Don’t go to the ER unless you’re already on your death bed.
OMG.
So go to the ER for every little thing?
Staph, and I’m guessing, kills over 100,000 per year and we’re not alarmed that?
Ebola spreads the same way as Staph.
Oct. 16, 2007 — It appears that more people in the U.S. now die from the mostly hospital-acquired staph infection MRSA than from AIDS, according to a new report from the CDC.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was responsible for an estimated 94,000 life-threatening infections and 18,650 deaths in 2005, CDC researchers report in the Oct. 17 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/news/20071016/more-us-deaths-from-mrsa-than-aids
Are you capable of posting without personal attacks?
Paul is an idiot, and he was really silly with this statement.
Paul is indeed an idiot, but on this, he is less than an idiot than those at the WHO and CDC.
He's right, don't underestimate the translatability of ebola. Consistent continued underestimation is why it's become a pandemic in the first place.
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