Posted on 10/19/2014 6:28:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Is Barack Obama completely insane? By not instituting an immediate ban on all non-essential travel between the United States and West Africa, he is putting the lives of more than 300 million Americans at risk. Anyone with a shred of common sense knows that you keep more people from getting sick by keeping the sick people away from the healthy people. Because the Ebola outbreaks in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone are raging out of control, it is extremely difficult to tell who is carrying Ebola and who is not carrying Ebola. Therefore we need to keep everyone from those countries away until those outbreaks subside. If Barack Obama had established an Ebola travel ban a month or two ago like he should have done, Thomas Eric Duncan would never have entered the United States, and we would not have two Texas nurses infected with the virus. But because Barack Obama did not do his job, now we have a new Ebola scare popping up somewhere in the country almost hourly. If this outbreak eventually evolves into a full-blown pandemic, we will know who to blame.
Will an Ebola travel ban work?
It has worked in Africa. Even as the outbreaks in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have spread like wildfire, the nations immediately bordering them are doing just fine. And there is one primary reason why this is the case...
Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, all of which share borders with at least one of the three most affected countries, have closed those borders.
At this point, nearly 30 countries have instituted an Ebola travel ban.
So why won't Obama do it?
This is clearly what the American people want. For example, one recent survey asked the following question...
Should the government allow people who have recently been in any of the countries in western Africa where there is a major Ebola outbreak to enter the United States?
Only 23 percent of respondents said yes to that question.
We aren't talking about the flu or the measles or some other disease that we are accustomed to dealing with.
We are talking about a brutally efficient killer that could kill millions of us if it were to spread widely inside the United States.
Sadly, at this point Barack Obama and the CDC are dead set against a travel ban, and there are "experts" popping up all over the mainstream media explaining to us why an Ebola travel ban would be a bad idea.
They say that a travel ban would provide a "false sense of security".
Of course they never mention that travel bans are working quite well in Africa.
They say that a travel ban would make the Ebola outbreaks worse by keeping people from going over there to help.
But very few people are suggesting that essential medical personnel should be banned from traveling. So that argument makes no sense whatsoever.
They say that travelers would just find another way into this country, and that it is better for us to be able to screen them when they come through the airports.
What are they going to do? Swim over here from West Africa?
If we ban all sea and air travel from those nations, the only way that they would be able to come in would be through the Canadian or Mexican borders. And if Obama had secured those borders like he should have done by now, we wouldn't have a problem.
Some "experts" are even suggesting that a travel ban would be "racist".
Really?
What about all of the other African nations that have instituted Ebola travel bans?
Are they "racist" too?
Right now, the dead bodies of Ebola victims are decaying in the streets over in West Africa. Ebola corpses are being dumped into rivers and are being eaten by animals. Grave diggers can't keep up with the number of bodies being delivered to them. The Liberian government estimates that it will soon need more than 84,000 additional body bags as the death toll climbs at an exponential rate.
We don't want that coming here.
But thanks to Obama, most Americans now believe that we will see a major Ebola outbreak in the United States during the coming year...
According to a Wednesday poll by the Harvard School of Public Health, 52 percent of Americans surveyed said they believe the country will experience a large outbreak in the coming year, while 38 percent said they believed they or a family member would be infected.
In a previous article, I blamed the current state of affairs on Obama's incompetence.
But to be honest, I was giving him the benefit of the doubt.
The truth is that Obama being incompetent is the best case scenario.
There is also a possibility that Donald Trump has raised. We could actually be looking at a situation where there is something wrong with his mental health...
Thursday on NewsMax TV's "The Steve Malzberg Show," real estate mogul Donald Trump called into question President Barack Obama mental health for refusing enact a travel ban on commercial flights from West African nations suffering with the Ebola outbreak.
When Malzberg asked if Trump, who had tweeted that the president was "psycho" for not stopping the flights, stands by questioning Obama's mental health, Trump doubled down saying, "There is something wrong, and nobody knows what it is, but there is something wrong. There are so many bad decision. Can anybody be that incompetent? There is something wrong."
Others have suggested that Obama may even be doing this on purpose.
Whatever his motivation is, the truth is that he is endangering all of us and our families.
Meanwhile, the CDC also richly deserves all of the criticism that it is currently getting.
This is an agency that is absolutely showered with money. It gets more than $6,000,000,000 a year, and it is supposed to be preparing our health care system for events such as this.
And without a doubt, the money is in their budget...
This lack of response is despite having these line items in its budget (2012 numbers):
- Quarantine (non-add) $25,866,000
- Healthcare-Associated Infections – PPHF (non-add) $11,750,000
- Workplace Wellness – PPHF $10,000,000
- Surveillance, Epidemiology, and PH Informatics $262,129,000
- Personal Protective Technology $16,791,000
- State and Local Preparedness and Response Capability $657,418,000
- Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund Transfer (non-add) $30,000,000
How much of these funds were used to monitor, consult, advice the nurses in Dallas who were treating a man with deadly Ebola? $0.00
"Incompetent" is far too kind a word to describe the performance of the CDC so far.
But of course this is just par for the course for federal agencies these days. This has become so glaringly obvious that even CNBC is talking about it...
The CDC is just the latest in a line of federal agencies viewed as bumbling and incompetent. First it was the botched rollout of Obamacare by the Department of Health and Human Services and the IRS seemingly targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny. More recently, the Secret Service came under heavy criticism for allowing a knife-wielding intruder to burst in and run wild inside the White House, among other appalling lapses.
The CDC now is under heavy scrutiny for not moving more swiftly to ensure that Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan did not spread the disease to American nurses and for apparently unclear direction to one of those nurses, Amber Joy Vinson, about whether she could fly after treating Duncan.
As political pressure has mounted, Obama has finally made a "big move" to get a grip on this crisis.
He has appointed an "Ebola czar" to oversee the federal response to Ebola.
His name is Ron Klain, and he is a Democratic political hack best known for his work during the "hanging chads" episode of the 2000 presidential election.
The White House says that they were not looking for an expert on Ebola.
Mission accomplished.
The "Ebola czar" heading up the response to what could be the greatest health crisis in U.S. history does not know anything about the virus.
Let us hope that this Ebola outbreak fizzles out somehow and that by some miracle no more Ebola victims travel to the United States.
Because it has become exceedingly clear that our government is not equipped to deal with something like this.
Matt Drudge recently sent out a tweet warning that we need to be ready to "self-quarantine" if necessary.
I think that is very good advice. Obviously the government is not going to be able to protect us if Ebola starts spreading like wildfire.
The only people that you are going to be able to depend on are yourself, your family and your close friends.
I encourage all of you to get prepared while we still have time.
btt
Yes now!
It’s very important to understand why those in power (it's not just Obama, unfortunately) are opposed to stopping arrivals of passenger aircraft from Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.
On October 1, 2014, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an opinion paper co-authored by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Rahm’s brother and an important Obama adviser in his own right. It was titled “Why Should High-Income Countries Help Fight Ebola”, and it contained the following language:
“…there are obligations of global justice to combat Ebola and strengthen health systems and infrastructure in affected countries in the longer term. Advocates of so-called cosmopolitanism – a key position in the philosophical debate about global justice – argue that national borders have no significance and that all people, regardless of where they live, are entitled to the same education, health care services, and other social resources…”
The people in power have been creating a borderless world for at least sixty years. They have achieved functional borderlessness in the U.S.A., using the covert revolutionary tactic “think of it always, speak of it never.” Most Americans still believe we have the ability to close our borders on short notice, when clearly we do not.
In any event, Obama, his Health and Human Services secretary, his Labor secretary, his acting Surgeon General, his Centers for Disease Control Director – all of them would DIE before they agreed to stop the flights, because doing it would affirm our borders as actual physical objects and demonstrate that it could be done, and they are mortally opposed to both of those things.
I think it is pretty clear now that if Obola can’t destroy the U.S. he wants to hurt the U.S. as much as he can.
It is unconscionable for a president to put the interests of diseased foreigners over those of the American citizenry.
Just curious.
What would be the costs of quarantine that it would necessitate almost $26,000,000.00?
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“…there are obligations of global justice to combat Ebola and strengthen health systems and infrastructure in affected countries in the longer term. Advocates of so-called cosmopolitanism – a key position in the philosophical debate about global justice – argue that national borders have no significance and that all people, regardless of where they live, are entitled to the same education, health care services, and other social resources…”
Thank you for that. It really deserves its own thread.
“argue that national borders have no significance and that all people, regardless of where they live, are entitled to the same education, health care services, and other social resources…””
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I think most of us feel that way, BUT,there is an old saying that if you don’t take care of yourself first you can’t take care of anyone else.
We have been extending aid to the less fortunate for years BECAUSE we take care of ourselves.
Ezekiel is an ass.
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Obama will kill the democrat party.
This is not hyperbole but fact.
Proof:
1. Given it is known that the vast majorly of democrat voters are located in highly urbanized areas.
2. It is also a mathematical certainty that the probability of infection increases with the number of opportunities for exposure.
3. The number of opportunities for exposure will therefore be highest in highly urbanized areas.
4. Therefore; the infection rate will be higher in highly urbanized areas populated by democrat voters.
5. Since the Ebola Zaire virus is ~50-80% fatal to those infected with the virus.
6. Obama will kill the democrat party by killing its voters.
In stating this, I don’t want anyone to die but it is ironic that the incompetence of the president will most likely kill the ones who voted for him.
Scientists, doctors, say travel ban will make it worse. I don’t care what the politicians say. Until medical is on board with a travel ban (and they give EXCELLENT reasons why a ban will make it worse) then no ban.
I learned in 25 years of Prosecuting that ONLY facts matter. That many things, at first blush, seem intuitive but in reality are not.
NO travel ban. I don’t care what ODimwit, or any of these niwits we elect, think on the matter.
A travel ban is the right thing to do. Not doing it is insane. 0 thinks it’s unfair that Whitey isn’t infected and wants him to be.
“So why won’t Obama do it?”
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I don’t know. Obama however has selected his side.
If he doesn’t reverse course very soon, I believe Palin was completely correct.
Impeach the bum. After the election of course.
But start thinking of this right now.
Impeachment.
America cannot stand another two years, if Obama is going to advocated for opposition to American safety this way.
Protect America.
I hate to say it, but there is Congress. At the very least the House could have a vote on a ban.
Make the Democrats GO ON RECORD as supporting civil rights for the Ebola virus.
By any yardstick, that man is deadset on destroying this nation.
Keeping us embroiled in wars over oil.
Open borders allowing diseased people and terrorists in.
Policies and staff who foment racial strife at every turn.
Adoption of UN policies that curtail the freedoms of Americans.
I am sure there are others. Some say it’s too early in the morning to drink, I may just break with tradition.
Excellent reasons why a travel ban would work? Are you drinking the Kool Aid too? Are you actually believing the BS coming from the CDC (the ones you are calling medical professionals) or other media “Doktors” who to me sound like they are falling in lockstep with Obama’s ridiculous reasoning for not closing the borders and not keeping out Ebola.
I think the fact Obama opposes the travel ban goes well beyond any science issues.
If he signals that it is ok to keep certain people out of the US, he’s now created a precedent regarding his open borders policy. If we can make an exception today to keep people (primarily black) out for Ebola, even if temporary, then tomorrow the sheeple will want to keep the Mexicans, Haitians, etc out. It makes his reported goal of declaring amnesty right after the Nov. 4th elections more problematic.
An Ebola travel ban is a slippery slope for him and an existential threat to his immigration policy.
There we have it....... two words and a succinct explanation
existential threat
Do not confuse science with political science. Only political scientists agree that a travel ban won’t work. And any doctor who thinks quarantine won’t work, needs their medical license revoked.
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