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White House considering Ebola czar
NBC News ^ | October 15, 2014

Posted on 10/15/2014 1:10:48 PM PDT by maggief

CNBC's Meg Tirrell reports the White House has acknowledged shortcomings in the response to Ebola and is considering an Ebola czar.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: czar; ebola; ebolaczar; ebolaczarlol; ebolaoptics; ebolapr; obamaebola
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To: maggief

Why not a Czarina? Are they sexist in the 1/2 white house?


41 posted on 10/15/2014 1:29:14 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: DoughtyOne
Incredibly, they're the ones attacking a football team that has done nothing more than what they do every single day.

If the team gives in to this nonsense they will empower the idiots. And it is not about good or bad names, it is about power and control.

42 posted on 10/15/2014 1:30:20 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (There will be another crusade in our lifetime.)
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To: maggief

Me, me, me. I’ll end it in a few weeks - but I’ll need sweeping powers.

1) Close every airstrip in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone - by bombing, if necessary. Aid will be delivered by airdrop, with very clear instructions in English, the local language and in pictures.

2) NO ONE from West Africa will be admitted to this country without being in quarantine for 6 weeks. Yeah, you read that right - 6, count’em SIX weeks. There was a report that Ebola could take as long as 42 days to show symptoms after infection. Oh, and they have to pay for the quarantine. Don’t like it? Fine, you get shipped back, and you and the airline can argue about who pays for that. Further, the particular airliner used to transport either an Ebola patient or someone who refused quarantine will NEVER be allowed to land in the U.S. - no exceptions, EVER, I don’t care if they strip it down to bare metal and heat it to 1,000 degrees, never means never.

3) All of our troops in West Africa come home, right now, and go into individual quarantine for 6 weeks. We feed them well, give them cable and internet connections, nice showers, etc. The Army Corps of Engineers will be given whatever resources are necessary to put this into place in 2 weeks at some abandoned base in the middle of nowhere. Once the time is up, we let these folks out and give them 2 months off and $10,000 each to say thanks.

4) EVERYONE who has had any contact with an Ebola patient (or someone who has refused quarantine) will be in quarantine for 6 weeks. Same deal with food, cable, internet, showers. Maybe even put them in the same facility with the military to have a modicum of cost-savings. Pass a law that forbids employers from firing them, and which pays their wages in the meantime.

5) Fire Frieden and everyone on the federal payroll that gave him advice or backed his galactically-stupid statements.

6) Build a reserve of Level 4 biosuits and related equipment. Make sure that the CDC passes out SENSIBLE procedures to every hospital, clinic and medical practice in the country within a week.

7) Bolster research into vaccines and cures for ALL hemorraghic diseases (all the Ebolas, Marburg, the Hantaviruses, etc.).

8) Dumping DDT all over West Africa to kill the food supply for the fruit bats would help a bit, as would sending educational materials to those who survive Ebola over there about the extreme risk of continuing their burial practices.

My goal is to eradicate Ebola from the country in 6 weeks, and to keep it out for as much of forever as possible. This is pretty much the only way - and yet I know that NONE of this will be done by pResident Obola.


43 posted on 10/15/2014 1:32:28 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: GraceG

Being old, but not infirm, OBAMA reminded me of the philosophical depth of Andy Rooney/Judy Garland movie whose theme was:
LETS PUT ON A SHOW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRZ5400UKSc

Apologies to the cast of the movie.


44 posted on 10/15/2014 1:33:13 PM PDT by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but the culture embraced that degrades.)
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To: VRW Conspirator

I agree. It’s time we slap this political correctness down.

There are a number of issues to do it on too. Global warming is one of the most in need of it.


45 posted on 10/15/2014 1:41:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Dunam, Duncan, man what infections these folks brought over.)
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To: bert
how can you justify ceasing treatment for Grannie” They would find a way.
46 posted on 10/15/2014 1:42:51 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: maggief

That ought to do it.


47 posted on 10/15/2014 1:47:44 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: maggief

How about starting out with a Surgeon General with some knowledge and experience.


48 posted on 10/15/2014 1:48:21 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: JudyinCanada

I vote for Lois Lerner... she will destroy Ebola when noone is looking.


49 posted on 10/15/2014 2:02:08 PM PDT by theyreallthesame
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To: maggief

Yes, I was wondering when it was going to come.


50 posted on 10/15/2014 2:18:11 PM PDT by TurkeyLurkey
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To: maggief

Ebola czar! Why? The demon-crats already have their Death Panel.


51 posted on 10/15/2014 2:20:04 PM PDT by Gator113 ( Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Mike Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: Gator113

Ebola has the potential to take out young folks.

The Death Panels are to fix SocSec and Medicare funding shortfalls.


52 posted on 10/15/2014 2:21:44 PM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: Ancesthntr

That is the most sense I’ve read on the subject yet.

the only important percentage is ZERO. ANY non-zero chance of vector of transmission must be eliminated, regardless of cost or circumstances.


53 posted on 10/15/2014 2:23:05 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: harwood

I’m not from your neck of the woods, but I’d vote for that in a New York minute!


54 posted on 10/15/2014 2:23:47 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: dforest

+1


55 posted on 10/15/2014 2:24:04 PM PDT by OKSooner (Hospice in place and await further instructions.)
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To: maggief
:-D )))

Because of course they are.

56 posted on 10/15/2014 2:37:36 PM PDT by RichInOC ("Hi, I'm from the United States Government and I'm here to..." (No! BAD Rich!))
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To: RedStateRocker
the only important percentage is ZERO. ANY non-zero chance of vector of transmission must be eliminated, regardless of cost or circumstances.

Thanks. Unfortunately, the shitferbrains people running things believe that this is just business as usual. They don't believe - and don't appear to give a crap - that this could be an extinction event.

Listen up, DC assholes: this disease has a 70% lethality rate, doubles every 3 weeks, and we don't even know how many people in the country have it! Get a handle on it RIGHT F'ING NOW, or you've just destoyed the country.

The unadulterated stupidity of Frieden and Obola are so extreme as to suggest a hidden purpose. All they had to do was ban flights and people from West Africa by Labor Day, when the outbreak was already serious. Easy-peasy...for someone with 2 functioning neurons.

57 posted on 10/15/2014 2:46:53 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: RedStateRocker

P.S. Love your tagline. I nominate you for President.


58 posted on 10/15/2014 2:48:26 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: maggief

Obama, why not appoint a ‘Freedom Rights Czar’?


59 posted on 10/15/2014 4:02:04 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Farmer Dean

Does the cabal of tzars ever meet as a group?


60 posted on 10/16/2014 5:41:34 AM PDT by Paladin2
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