Posted on 10/14/2014 8:16:17 PM PDT by TigerClaws
CDC Director: 'Our information is clear and correct'
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Amen! Oberlin has always been anti-American, anti-military and anti-business. Coca-Cola is banned on campus. Some of their "notable" alumni include the marxist behind Ben And Jerry's Ice Cream, commie Carl Rowan and sodomite Lauren Berlant.
Oh how I wished she had asked to following follow up question:
“Sir would you please exactly explain to me how halting U.S. bound flights from infected West African nations would cause Ebola to become worse in Africa as you just claimed?”
We had 3 people screaming the most vile things possible at this lying SOB on the TV, and two of ‘em were liberals!
An N95 mask is not enough. The virus is smaller.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3215278/posts
On one hand we are told ebola is only one of several BSL-4 virions in existence, of which only 67 lab facilities exist worldwide to safely handle the blood samples, ...which are “bank vaults, built inside submarines, built inside a prison, where only Top Secret clearance personnel with 4 years of progressive training are authorized to operate”.
On the other hand, we are shown Doctor’s without Borders’ ebola clinics, where appear less secure bio-medically, than the public flu shot lines I endured 7 years ago when we all feared the last pandemic risk.
Let all the “community organizers” get what they wanted. They want to be elevated to control everything without any real veritable skills, now send them the patients and let them live with the consequences.
> An N95 mask is not enough. The virus is smaller.
I mention N95’s because they would be considered part of “standard, contact, and droplet precautions” and yet the poster contradicts this by showing the personnel using mere surgical masks, which are worse. I’m simply pointing out that the “official guidelines” and these instructional posters contradict. Upon re-reading my initial post, I see I was as far from clear as I could possibly have been. I do apologize for that.
I see no reason why healthcare workers shouldn’t be in duct-taped hazmats each time they enter the rooms.
This doctor is our very own Baghdad Bob.
If a Republican were in the White House the Alinsky tactics would be used in full force by the Democrats by now. Remember the screams for Michael Brown’s head after Katrina? It took only three days of 24/7 pillorying of Brown for Bush to accept his resignation. Bush looked weak defending Brown, and then looked weaker for firing him a day after praising him. Once Brown was gone, the Democrats were relentless in blaming Katrina on a Bush. The Bush presidency went into a tailspin from which it never recovered, setting up the GOP electoral debacles of 2006 and 2008..
We are in the last weeks of a major election campaign and have the potential for a deadly epidemic to sweep across the country thanks to the incompetent policy decisions of the President and this leftist fool at the CDC. If the Republicans are afraid to attack the President in the same way the Dems attacked Bush after Katrina, this CDC director makes a perfect proxy target now that a second healthcare worker has contracted Ebola.
Obama has been very slow to fire incompetents in his administration and in many cases doubles down in their defense (Holder and Rice for example). Today Republicans in unison should be demanding the resignation of the CDC head and strict border controls. Obama will likely hang tough and the Ebola news will get worse every day. Dem candidates will either have to support the President or repudiate his handling of the crisis. If they support Obama they look like fools, if they criticize Obama it weakens him.
Ebola represents failure of the President in three major policy areas which concern any discerning voter and likely some of the low information voters. Ebola represents healthcare, national defense, and border security (I.e. Immigration) wrapped up in one package. The low information voter may still believe Obamacare is good because he hasn’t experienced the cost increases coming from the employer mandate, may believe Tea Party opposition to amnesty is about racism, and may not care about ISIS because no one he knows serves in the military. However, even the most stupid citizens understand Ebola represents almost certain death for those who catch it, know the disease is being brought in from outside the country, and can grasp the concept that if people who have the disease aren’t allowed into the country there is less chance of catching it. They also know Obama is in charge, not Bush, not the Tea Party, not obscure budget cuts two years ago. They will hold him accountable if they fear for their lives.
Ebola is the October surprise. Today every Republican should be demanding in unison the resignation of the CDC head and the banning of travel from the affected areas. Yes, the same press that gleefully poured out the Democrat propaganda on Katrina will accuse the Republicans of politicizing the issue. However, when people are afraid, their eyes open and their primal instincts take over. Nature has them wired to avoid life threatening danger. Every time the members of this administration say there is no danger in letting potentially diseased people freely cross the border they are telling people to ignore the survival instinct imprinted into every living creature. That instinct tells people if you can’t flee the danger, do something to keep it away.
Rahman Emmanuel was famous for saying, “Don’t let a crisis go to waste.” Can the GOP use this issue to make 2014 a sea change election, like the Dems did taking the House in 2006? If they do they can make Obama irrelevant for the next 2 years the same way Bush was made impotent from 2006 to the end of his second term. If they do play this on the side of the people, and play it aggressively, all of the tight races will swing their way. Can Rove and the other election consultants advising the candidates seize the issue and the opportunity? Can Boehner and McConnell get in front of the cameras and actually look like strong leaders in a time of crisis when
Obama is fumbling badly? The next few days will determine if 2014 is a monumental sweep or just another footnote in the history of a dying political party.
How long are their noses thus far?
It should be enough. The n95 stops droplets, that’s what you worry about.
I guess we now know why Thomas Duncan wasn’t moved immediately to one of the 4 biocontainment hospitals.
The government wants to spread Ebola across America.
This is on purpose people.
The real question is why hasn’t a Duncan relative come down with Ebola?
The virus won't float free and survive. The problem is that there is no sealed face mask so the droplets (any size) will simply float into the eyes.
Of course the N95 is enough. You could sit next to an Ebola patient on the bus and not be at risk. Joe Biden said so, which means it's true. Pay no attention to the two infected medical professionals in Dallas, the one in Spain, and the 400 plus in West Africa - Ebola is not a serious concern.
We should be worried about Global Warming instead. One point four degrees in one hundred forty years, and zero point zero degrees in just the last fifteen years is a real problem. Species are going extinct, the seas are rising. Glaciers are disappearing. Women and minorities are hardest hit. I'm worried whether Al Gore has enough money and power, not whether a deadly plague is spreading. Aren't you?
That is true, but the eye shield won’t stop droplets that go around it.
Having read this...
I may have to rethink my position. I certainly agree that I’m not happy with the face mask exposed head etc of the CDC recommendation. If we DO have to go to respirators full hoods and tyvek body suits we have a problem. Just not enough of that stuff to go around, not practical for every ambulance run, ER visit etc etc with “possible ebola” symptoms. The only really practical answer here is the obvious one. If there’s no Ebola in the US we have no Ebola problem, that means a travel ban NOW.
I completely agree.
I agree with the editorial. Right now we are relying on evaporation for HCW safety. IOW the theory that if a droplet is small enough to travel, then it will evaporate and the embedded Ebola viruses will die. But that is not good enough. We don’t have nearly enough data to make that conclusion.
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