Fauci tries to calm US after missteps on Ebola, amid concerns Americans have lost faith

Fox News ^ | October 19, 2014 | unknown

[MulberryDraw]

America’s top infectious disease expert on Sunday again acknowledged that the safety protocols used for the nation’s first Ebola patient were inadequate, and that the Obama administration overstated the country’s readiness for the deadly virus, amid concern that Americans have already lost faith in the government.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told “Fox News Sunday” that the adopted World Health Organization protocol for handling an Ebola patient was better suited for field work than confined hospital care. -snip- Murphy also said the so-called Ebola czar that the president appointed to oversee the federal response, Ron Klain, will not calm such fears.

“The American people are looking for knowledge and expertise,” he told Fox News. “He has none in these fields.”

[vette6387]

Fauci sloshes when he walks. He’s an even bigger POS than the CDC director.

[DoughtyOne]

Just hit the snooze alarm citizens.  No need to worry.  Obama and these NUTS are on the job.

These sorts of things are supposed to be their full time work.

Does it look like it was their full time work?

It looks to me like they haven't given this a thought since the early 70s.

And we probably had better technique back then, compared to what they were using when this first hit this year.


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[Sequoyah101]

Don’t know the guy. I have no faith in anyone from the government... local, state or federal anymore. It is almost exclusively populated by political hacks, EEO privilege and incompetence. Most honorable, competent people seem to have left civil service about 20 years ago and those that are left have been beat down and are just marking time now.

We may be better off with anarchy. Government seems to have the same outcome but is a lot more expensive.

If I were a terrorist who hated the United States I’d be feeling pretty smug right now. I might even go out and enjoy a fine fall day and play a few rounds of golf in celebration of my good fortune and cunning.

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?
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[tomkat]

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[Sequoyah101]

yeah, because all they have thought about is social engineering topics.

[joshua c]

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[Tilted Irish Kilt]

vette6387:" Fauci sloshes when he walks.
He’s an even bigger POS than the CDC director."

I disagee. Fuuci has the intellectual ability,scientific training, and medical knowhow to deal with Ebola .
Frieden is still a cheerleader for the Clown Prince , with a degree in "Community Organizer".
Klaine is nothing more that a lawyer, political hack, spin-meister who is there to plug the Ebola epidemmic hole until after the mid-term elections to slow the bleeding.
Dr. Laurie is the trained, expierienced ,disaster nurse who should be leading the administration control over Ebola.
This Ebola situation and the administrations response demonstrates that
it is the Democrats who own "The War on Women"

[DoughtyOne]

Agreed...

[Liz]

Obama's Ebola Czar---Ron Klain, the ex-Biden factotum--- is nothing more that a lawyer, political hack, and spin-meister, hand-picked to slow the Ebola bleeding.....until after mid-terms. Klain and CDC's Frieden are confined to cheerleading the flailing Obama admin.....

CAN THEY TOP THIS? Course, we have yet to see Ron Klain and lamebrain Susan Rice reacting together....but it will be interesting to see if they can top CDC'S Frieden for utter stupidity.

FRIEDEN FAMOUSLY SAID: "You Can Give Ebola on a Bus, But You Can't Get It on a Bus."

The Strange Logic of CDC's Dr. Thomas Frieden.

Nothing this idiot says makes sense. He told Megyn Kelly
US health personnel just need to wear gloves and face mask to
prevent the contagion. But here he is in Liberia---covered to the hilt.

CDC's Frieden in haz-mat in Ebola-struck Liberia.

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CDC head Dr Tom Frieden Denies Enterovirus Link to Illegal-Alien kids wandering across the border into the US and into our schools---“There is no evidence that unaccompanied children brought EV-D68 into the United States; we are not aware of any of these children testing positive for the virus,” the CDC emailed WND......

Frieden's suck-up is so complete---Mexico is sending him a case of Tabasco-flavored Chap-Stix.

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[Old Sarge]

[Dr. Ursus]

True!

[vette6387]

“Fuuci has the intellectual ability,scientific training, and medical knowhow to deal with Ebola .”

Fauci is a partisan who claimed that the GOP budget cuts have hampered the government’s efforts to come up with an Ebola vaccine, but when cornered by Megyn Kelly this last week he said just the opposite. Doctors with political agendas should not be in charge of any aspect of our health care system. Fauci trades his Hippocratic Oath to do no harm for his RAT hat to spew whatever crap Obola wants disseminated.

[jaz.357]

“Hey Obama, be a MAN - Implement a travel BAN!”

[Wuli]

Obama does not view what his administration has done, concerning Ebola, as involving any real mistakes, and that’s why he chose a political fixer to go out and help the media understand Obama and his people did nothing wrong and, anyway, are now doing everything right./LOL

[greeneyes]

It’s apparent that the media has received their “marching orders” from the Sunday programs. No sensational coverage - walk it back - make sure that everyone knows the danger is over, and Ebola is soooooo difficult to catch.

We have learned from the mistakes and now it’s all under control. Everyone go back to sleep.

[livius]

Well, he was right about Bambi’s appointment of Klain.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[AnotherUnixGeek]

director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

I thought the Ebola crisis was in the CDC's bailiwick. How many redundant government bureaucracies are sucking up our tax dollars to not handle this crisis properly?

[bgill]

He’s revving up for his 13th apprearance in People Magazine.