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.
I have yet to hear an honest, sensible argument against a travel ban, and there are plenty of arguments against a travel ban being put forth by the Obama administration. The most pathetic one of all is it would stop help from going to the infected countries. A guy on Fox Sunday said that it would take “hundreds” of planes to fly help. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said a ban was “saber rattling”.
That's insane. The first step to turning an epidemic or any disaster around is containing it. We didn't contain ISIS, and look what happened. Would you let a fire burn out of control so more communities share the responsibility of fighting it? How about letting those protestors in Ferguson also protest in surrounding communities and states, so we can all share the problem. Perhaps we should move the disgraced Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt all over the world, because that's the way to contain it.
It's not just a principle of medicine. It's a principle of survival.
soon the only place West Africans will be able to go is the United States ,Good luck with that
Yep. If Obama gives in to banning one group of foreigners, even temporarily for life and death health reasons, he’s then let the Camel’s nose under the tent for restrictions on other groups down the road.
The issue is somewhat parallel to partial birth abortion. Once the left allows a ban on nine month baby killing, regardless of how horrific the practice, it then creates an existential threat to their entire abortion argument.
Nothing. Nothing at al. Just like everything the government does not want to do or insists on doing... they pull a number out of their butt’s to justify whatever they want to do. They are all liars and the truth is not in them.
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts
Obama hates this country. He needs to be impeached now!!! It is a high crime to not protect this country. He swore to protect the country and is doing everything possible to ruin it and claims he’s a victim of his own adminisitration. You can’t make up this shit. Unbelievable.
Commie pink fag tyrant.
He was in ‘08 and even more so today. Just imagine how it’s going to advance by ‘16.
“....the incompetence of the president will most likely kill the ones who voted for him.”
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Chickens coming home to roost.
It doesn’t make any sense to not impose a travel ban except that it would affect certain people’s income. That is why the democrats oppose it.
If there is anyone who likes to do videos, here is an idea that expresses how I feel about this:
Cuts of Obama doing his middle finger nose scratch then pan to the audience and they are all doing the same thing right back at him. The whole audience scratching their noses with their middle finger.
“Hey Obama, be a MAN - Implement a travel BAN!”
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