Posted on 10/07/2014 7:44:21 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
On his blog on the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), director Dr. Tom Frieden wrote that sealing borders, restricting travel to and from countries with widespread cases of Ebola, and otherwise isolating communities infected with the deadly disease increases peoples distrust of government, making them less likely to co-operate to help stop the spread of Ebola.
Frieden added:
I have been asked whether we should stop travel to Liberia. The answer is no: to keep Americans and people in non-affected countries safe, we must continue to work to support efforts to stop the spread of Ebola in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. One strategy that wont stop this epidemic is isolating affecting countries or sealing borders. When countries are isolated, it is harder to get medical supplies and personnel deployed to stop the spread of Ebola. And even when governments restrict travel and trade, people in affected countries still find a way to move and it is even harder to track them systematically.
Frieden continued that restricting travel to and from a community with widespread Ebola would make it more difficult to control the isolated area and would place that country at even greater risk.
At the United Nations last week, delegates wore buttons that said: Isolate patients, not countries, Frieden wrote. The only way to stop the epidemic is to isolate and care for patients, not to quarantine entire communities, areas, or countries. Patients, communities, and countries that are fighting Ebola need our support.
A guest on NBCs Meet the Press on Sunday, Frieden also said that experimental drugs may help with the spread of Ebola, but added, The drug pipeline is going to be slow, Im afraid.
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OMG he's got it exactly wrong -- quarantine is the only known effective action against this damn virus (other than the magic miracle drugs that don't exist for a while).
As for "distrust of government", man, that ship sailed out of the harbor years ago.
So when Ebola gets a good grip in the USofA we will all trust our government more because the borders are open?
NOT sealing the borders to prevent infected people from entering the country GUARANTEES the people won’t trust you.
and when our kids start dying due to fedgov incompetence...
pitch forks and torches will be the order of the day
Blow it out your open border, Frieden.
Madness. Utter madness.
Frieden is a Bolshie hack and has to go. Anyone who can come up with the party line is too stupid to have a job, let alone this one.
East Asia has always been at war with Oceania.
He might as well had said, sealing borders causes climate change. Makes about as much sense.
I don’t understand this man’s power. EVERYONE who works for him will sacrifice their lives and reputations for him.
An apparatchik of the worst order!
A medical opinion?
The Ebola virus is a lethal predator and we are the prey.
Failing to secure our borders before Ebola was reckless.
Today it’s voluntary manslaughter, like Benghazi.
Everything is going according to the plan.
Thanks for the ping!
This Frieden clown should have stuck to banning BIG Gulps. He isn’t cut out for this grown up type of work.
Then he can take care of the Ebooks patients that come over our border.
Do they speak any languages other than Orwellian Newspeak?
And in other news from the CDC abstinence leads to more unwanted pregnancies.
Ebooks? Your auto-correct is on steroids, dude.
Grasping at straws, when just the opposite is true.
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