We Are So Screwed--Head Of CDC Drunk On Obama Koolaid

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AAAintheBeltway

We all know there is one chance to stop this ebola. Isolate those areas of west africa where it is raging. Some of those countries and surrounding ones already have closed off travel to neighboring areas. They shoot people on sight trying to cross the border.

Our own CDC during President Bush's last term developed a comprehensive plan to control travel and provide quarantine in the event we were threatened by such outbreaks. Under Obama the plan was scrapped however.

Now, in response apparently to the public's increasingly loud demand that something be done to stop ebola, the CDC's current director issued a statement that was face slappingly stupid. According to him, we couldn't ban travel to west africa because it would somehow increase the risk. How exactly was left unexplained. He also mumbled something about people having the right to "return home." Even if they have ebola, doc? http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/ebola-us-border-111581.html

Clearly this is political, driven by obama's insane anti-colonialist obsession. We can't protect ourselves from a an african problem. it's unfair. We have to suffer too. That'll show you white folks.
 
If you put a boob into the chief executive position you can expect that people are going to probably die as a result.
 
This really calls out for a congressional investigation. I'd like to put this director under oath and get him to swear that this is his idea and he is not acting on instructions from the WH.

Either way, he should be fired. If we get an outbreak here, firing him will be way too light.
 
AAAintheBeltway said:
We all know there is one chance to stop this ebola. Isolate those areas of west africa where it is raging. Some of those countries and surrounding ones already have closed off travel to neighboring areas. They shoot people on sight trying to cross the border.
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A lot of scare tactics. Its just not that big of a deal. They are actually claiming that ebola will mutate and become an airborne threat. I am just not buying it.

Bush was trying to get that policy because they were hyping a bird flu pandemic that was supposed to kill hundreds of millions of people. How did that pan out?
 
With a contagion index of 1.8 and mortality of 70% for treated patients and 90% for patients who are untreated in areas that have a transmissibility (R0 ) of 1.5 for Guinea, 1.6 for Liberia and 2.5 in Sierra Leon it is simply arithmetic. If the virus gets into Lagos (population approximately 11 million) assuming unrestricted air travel it begins to spread readily out of the continent and becomes pandemic on a larger scale.
 
377OHMS said:
With a contagion index of 1.8 and mortality of 70% for treated patients and 90% for patients who are untreated in areas that have a transmissibility (R0 ) of 1.5 for Guinea, 1.6 for Liberia and 2.5 in Sierra Leon it is simply arithmetic. If the virus gets into Lagos (population approximately 11 million) assuming unrestricted air travel it begins to spread readily out of the continent and becomes pandemic on a larger scale.
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Yeah but...what about global warming and the republicans taking over the senate?
 
377OHMS said:
With a contagion index of 1.8 and mortality of 70% for treated patients and 90% for patients who are untreated in areas that have a transmissibility (R0 ) of 1.5 for Guinea, 1.6 for Liberia and 2.5 in Sierra Leon it is simply arithmetic. If the virus gets into Lagos (population approximately 11 million) assuming unrestricted air travel it begins to spread readily out of the continent and becomes pandemic on a larger scale.
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I think I'll watch "I Am Legend" tonight.
 
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