We Are So Screwed--Head Of CDC Drunk On Obama Koolaid
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If you lived in NYC for most of Bloomberg's administration, then you already know what a Jackass Friedman is.
Waiting for the commercial of a kid that lost his mom to Ebola alone in an airport.
You cant even make this shit up, these people are willing to completely embarass themselves trying to shift the blame from Obama.
MSNBC Points Finger at NRA For 'Making the Ebola Crisis Worse'
MSNBC anchor Krystal Ball and NBC correspondent Anne Thompson shamelessly politicized the Ebola crisis in a Thursday op-ed on MSNBC.com. Ball and Thompson bewailed how due to "Senate dysfunction and NRA opposition, we don't have a surgeon general right now....during a time when, we not only have Ebola arriving on our shores, but are also dealing with the mysterious Enterovirus, which is infecting and contributing to the deaths of children in the U.S."
The two on-air personalities led their piece, "How the NRA is making the Ebola crisis worse," by noting that "poll by Harvard found that 39% of U.S. adults are concerned about a large outbreak here, and more than a quarter fear someone in their immediate family could get sick with Ebola." They continued with a lament: "If only there was someone around who could educate the American public about the actual level of risk. Someone who was trusted as a public health expert and whose job it was to help us understand what we really need to worry about and what precautions we should take."
Ball (the winner of the MRC's "#obamacarefail" Dishonor Award) and Thompson underlined that these roles are among the "primary responsibilities of the United States surgeon general," and that "there's just one problem: Thanks to Senate dysfunction and NRA opposition, we don't have a surgeon general right now. In fact, we haven't had a surgeon general for more than a year now — even though the president nominated the eminently qualified Dr. Vivek Murthy back in November 2013."
After devoting several paragraphs touting the role of the surgeon general, the two NBC News employees outlined their case for why the National Rifle Association is to blame for the situation:
...Murthy's nomination has been held up by Republicans and a few red state Democrats due to this surprisingly controversial stance: He believes that guns can impact your health. Well, to be fair, this conservative coalition is not troubled by his stance, so much as they are fearful of the NRA, which decided to try to scuttle Murthy's confirmation. The NRA wrote a strongly worded letter, Rand Paul put a hold on the nomination, and Red State Democrats begged Harry Reid to not force them to vote. It's funny that the strongly worded letters of ordinary citizens don't seem to have quite the same effect.
So thanks to NRA power and Senate cowardice, we are left with no surgeon general during a time when, we not only have Ebola arriving on our shores, but are also dealing with the mysterious Enterovirus, which is infecting and contributing to the deaths of children in the U.S.
One might conclude that, in Ball and Thompson's view, the millions of Americans who are NRA members are not "ordinary citizens."
The two writers then boosted Dr. Murphy with two quotes from Dr. Paul Farmer, whom they labeled the "chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston." However, they failed to disclose that Dr. Farmer donated to both presidential campaigns of Barack Obama, as well as that of John Kerry in 2004. He also endorsed former Obama administration official Don Berwick in the Massachusetts Democratic primary for governor in 2014.
Near the end of their op-ed, Ball and Thompson undercut their argument bemoaning the lack of a surgeon general by noting that "Tom Frieden, the head of the Center for Disease Control, has been filling in for part of the surgeon general's role" in the Ebola crisis. However, they asserted that he has more important things to tend to: "[H]e has his own vital work to attend to as both head of the CDC and the U.S. Ambassador to the World Health Organization."
The two NBC News personalities pointed out that Frieden was a "controversial pick" because of his "aggressive approach to combating smoking, as well as his support of distributing condoms and clean needles to combat the spread of HIV in New York City," but cited the Ebola situation as the reason why Frieden was confirmed earlier in September, and as evidence that "this Senate can act. It's time they move with equal haste to let Dr. Vivek Murthy get to work as our next surgeon general."
- See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthe...aking-ebola-crisis-worse#sthash.CJlFJME6.dpuf
MSNBC Points Finger at NRA For 'Making the Ebola Crisis Worse'
MSNBC anchor Krystal Ball and NBC correspondent Anne Thompson shamelessly politicized the Ebola crisis in a Thursday op-ed on MSNBC.com. Ball and Thompson bewailed how due to "Senate dysfunction and NRA opposition, we don't have a surgeon general right now....during a time when, we not only have Ebola arriving on our shores, but are also dealing with the mysterious Enterovirus, which is infecting and contributing to the deaths of children in the U.S."
The two on-air personalities led their piece, "How the NRA is making the Ebola crisis worse," by noting that "poll by Harvard found that 39% of U.S. adults are concerned about a large outbreak here, and more than a quarter fear someone in their immediate family could get sick with Ebola." They continued with a lament: "If only there was someone around who could educate the American public about the actual level of risk. Someone who was trusted as a public health expert and whose job it was to help us understand what we really need to worry about and what precautions we should take."
Ball (the winner of the MRC's "#obamacarefail" Dishonor Award) and Thompson underlined that these roles are among the "primary responsibilities of the United States surgeon general," and that "there's just one problem: Thanks to Senate dysfunction and NRA opposition, we don't have a surgeon general right now. In fact, we haven't had a surgeon general for more than a year now — even though the president nominated the eminently qualified Dr. Vivek Murthy back in November 2013."
After devoting several paragraphs touting the role of the surgeon general, the two NBC News employees outlined their case for why the National Rifle Association is to blame for the situation:
...Murthy's nomination has been held up by Republicans and a few red state Democrats due to this surprisingly controversial stance: He believes that guns can impact your health. Well, to be fair, this conservative coalition is not troubled by his stance, so much as they are fearful of the NRA, which decided to try to scuttle Murthy's confirmation. The NRA wrote a strongly worded letter, Rand Paul put a hold on the nomination, and Red State Democrats begged Harry Reid to not force them to vote. It's funny that the strongly worded letters of ordinary citizens don't seem to have quite the same effect.
So thanks to NRA power and Senate cowardice, we are left with no surgeon general during a time when, we not only have Ebola arriving on our shores, but are also dealing with the mysterious Enterovirus, which is infecting and contributing to the deaths of children in the U.S.
One might conclude that, in Ball and Thompson's view, the millions of Americans who are NRA members are not "ordinary citizens."
The two writers then boosted Dr. Murphy with two quotes from Dr. Paul Farmer, whom they labeled the "chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston." However, they failed to disclose that Dr. Farmer donated to both presidential campaigns of Barack Obama, as well as that of John Kerry in 2004. He also endorsed former Obama administration official Don Berwick in the Massachusetts Democratic primary for governor in 2014.
Near the end of their op-ed, Ball and Thompson undercut their argument bemoaning the lack of a surgeon general by noting that "Tom Frieden, the head of the Center for Disease Control, has been filling in for part of the surgeon general's role" in the Ebola crisis. However, they asserted that he has more important things to tend to: "[H]e has his own vital work to attend to as both head of the CDC and the U.S. Ambassador to the World Health Organization."
The two NBC News personalities pointed out that Frieden was a "controversial pick" because of his "aggressive approach to combating smoking, as well as his support of distributing condoms and clean needles to combat the spread of HIV in New York City," but cited the Ebola situation as the reason why Frieden was confirmed earlier in September, and as evidence that "this Senate can act. It's time they move with equal haste to let Dr. Vivek Murthy get to work as our next surgeon general."
- See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthe...aking-ebola-crisis-worse#sthash.CJlFJME6.dpuf
I saw that a little while ago. I'm still chuckling over their stupidity.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...Ways-the-White-House-Could-Have-Stopped-Ebola
With the diagnosis of Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan as Ebola Patient Zero, one thing is clear: The TSA can stop Dasani water bottles from accompanying passengers on airlines, but the feds aren’t willing to impose similar restrictions on, say, a lethal hemorrhagic virus from Africa.
How has the Obama administration responded to the diagnosis? By announcing that travel from Ebola-ravaged countries will not be restricted.
“We've provided guidance to pilots, flight attendants and others who are responsible for staffing our transportation infrastructure to ensure that if they notice individuals who are exhibiting symptoms that the proper authorities are notified,” said White House press secretary John Earnest Tuesday, according to The Hill. “[T]he administration has taken the step of re-circulating our guidance to make sure people are aware there is an important protocol that should be implemented.”
Earnest added that the likelihood of an Ebola outbreak striking the U.S. was “incredibly low.”
Why did the Obama administration send 1,400 American troops to Liberia on Tuesday to help contain the Ebola virus -- and fail to secure the U.S. border against its spread?
The United States is the only country besides Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia to have a diagnosed case of Ebola within its borders. Many African nations, including South Africa and Kenya, have banned travel to and from the infected countries. So has the United Kingdom.
The White House announcement opens up the possibility of many more Liberians traveling to the U.S. -- but the Obama administration had the power to prevent Ebola from reaching its borders. Five different failures in U.S. immigration enforcement and general government incompetence made it possible for a disease from the Third World to land in our backyard.
1. Unemployed, unmarried vagrant Thomas Duncan should not have qualified for a U.S. visa, period, Ebola-carrier status aside. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, Duncan had six strikes against him. He was unemployed -- therefore he had no pay stubs to provide to a consular officer for consideration, and no way to prove he would not become a burden to taxpayers. He held citizenship in Ghana -- but chose to live in Liberia, which has the fifth-highest rate of visa overstay in the world, as Ebola ravaged the country. He had never before visited the U.S. and planned to see his sister -- who is part of a settlement of Liberians in Texas, comprised of many illegals, and many others who won green cards in the “diversity lottery.”
2. Duncan should not have been permitted to set foot on an airliner. Duncan helped a pregnant woman deathly ill with Ebola to a Liberian hospital, and after they turned them away, he carried the woman into her family’s home. He knowingly came into direct contact with the disease -- and yet took it upon himself to board an intercontinental flight to visit family across the Atlantic.
The Washington Post complains that travel restrictions are “redundant,” since passengers boarding planes in West Africa are being screened for signs of a fever -- by the same officials in countries incapable of controlling the outbreak without Western aid.
WaPo further scolds its readers: “Despite the fact that an infected passenger flew from Liberia to Dallas this month, that passenger, Duncan, was not sick -- and was therefore not contagious -- while he was traveling. And once people become symptomatic, they become very sick, very quickly.
In this case, it is unlikely that a sick person could go 10 days without seeking medical care, CDC Director Tom Frieden said on Tuesday.”
Well, as long as Duncan didn’t have a fever on the plane, it doesn’t matter that he was violently vomiting outside of his apartment as medical workers, unaware he was contagious, took him back to the hospital.
3. The feds fail to convey urgency or seriousness and pass the buck to local hospitals, where paper protocols can quickly break down. The hospital failed to follow CDC containment procedure. Yes, the ambulance took him back to the hospital,Reuters reports. Back on September 25, Duncan visited Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with a fever. He told a nurse he had been in Liberia as few as seven days ago -- but incredibly, she failed to notify other hospital personnel of his travel history, disobeying CDC procedures that required placing Duncan in isolation immediately. Who knows how many people with whom Duncan truly came into contact? One thing is clear: When hospital ambulance crews loaded the vomiting Duncan onto a stretcher, they unknowingly exposed themselves to Ebola, and depriving the hospital of much-needed manpower.
4. The Obama administration failed to enforce existing immigration law to protect American citizens from epidemics in foreign countries. The Immigration and Nationality Act grants them power to discriminate -- yes, discriminate -- against foreigners who could pose a threat to Americans, whether it be from contagion, criminal character, mental illness, drug abuse, and a bevy of other disqualifications.Section 212 [ 8 U.S.C. 1182 ]
“Classes of Aliens Ineligible for Visas or Admission,” classifies anyone “who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to have a communicable disease of public health significance” to be ineligible to receive U.S. visas. Surely Ebola, which has claimed 3,338 lives and threatens at least 1.4 million more in West Africa, qualifies. Unsurprisingly, the Obama administration refuses to execute this law: It also makes hundreds of thousands of Central American illegals pouring across the southern border, carrying other undiagnosed exotic diseases, ineligible for entry, let alone carting around the country in commercial airliners.
5. The Department of Health and Human Services has transformed into a political outfit too busy covering for Obamacare’s failures to respond to other health crises. The last two announcements from the department are both titled, “The Affordable Care Act is working.” Rather than drafting a set of emergency procedures to determine self-protective measures concerning travel and immigration, HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell is busy preaching to the choir at a D.C. think tank.
Now: Imagine it’s 2005. A deadly Ebola outbreak has ravaged a community of Liberians living in Dallas, Texas, after a Ghana national flew into the states and vomited before his nephews and sister. He died after a few weeks in quarantine -- none of the newly developed Ebola vaccines were available in the U.S., having been sent to American troops stationed in Liberia aiding African governments. The George W. Bush administration announced that the U.S. will not impose any travel restrictions or additional screenings on passengers traveling from West African countries -- but quietly imposed restrictions later, after airline stocks tanked and more Africans from Ebola-stricken countries, desperate for medical care and asylum, flew to the U.S. and carried the virus with them. Imagine the feverish tweets from reporters.
In 2014, they won’t ask President Obama one simple question: When did it become White House policy to import deadly diseases into the U.S.?
Follow Katie on Twitter: @k_mcq.
With the diagnosis of Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan as Ebola Patient Zero, one thing is clear: The TSA can stop Dasani water bottles from accompanying passengers on airlines, but the feds aren’t willing to impose similar restrictions on, say, a lethal hemorrhagic virus from Africa.
How has the Obama administration responded to the diagnosis? By announcing that travel from Ebola-ravaged countries will not be restricted.
“We've provided guidance to pilots, flight attendants and others who are responsible for staffing our transportation infrastructure to ensure that if they notice individuals who are exhibiting symptoms that the proper authorities are notified,” said White House press secretary John Earnest Tuesday, according to The Hill. “[T]he administration has taken the step of re-circulating our guidance to make sure people are aware there is an important protocol that should be implemented.”
Earnest added that the likelihood of an Ebola outbreak striking the U.S. was “incredibly low.”
Why did the Obama administration send 1,400 American troops to Liberia on Tuesday to help contain the Ebola virus -- and fail to secure the U.S. border against its spread?
The United States is the only country besides Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia to have a diagnosed case of Ebola within its borders. Many African nations, including South Africa and Kenya, have banned travel to and from the infected countries. So has the United Kingdom.
The White House announcement opens up the possibility of many more Liberians traveling to the U.S. -- but the Obama administration had the power to prevent Ebola from reaching its borders. Five different failures in U.S. immigration enforcement and general government incompetence made it possible for a disease from the Third World to land in our backyard.
1. Unemployed, unmarried vagrant Thomas Duncan should not have qualified for a U.S. visa, period, Ebola-carrier status aside. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, Duncan had six strikes against him. He was unemployed -- therefore he had no pay stubs to provide to a consular officer for consideration, and no way to prove he would not become a burden to taxpayers. He held citizenship in Ghana -- but chose to live in Liberia, which has the fifth-highest rate of visa overstay in the world, as Ebola ravaged the country. He had never before visited the U.S. and planned to see his sister -- who is part of a settlement of Liberians in Texas, comprised of many illegals, and many others who won green cards in the “diversity lottery.”
2. Duncan should not have been permitted to set foot on an airliner. Duncan helped a pregnant woman deathly ill with Ebola to a Liberian hospital, and after they turned them away, he carried the woman into her family’s home. He knowingly came into direct contact with the disease -- and yet took it upon himself to board an intercontinental flight to visit family across the Atlantic.
The Washington Post complains that travel restrictions are “redundant,” since passengers boarding planes in West Africa are being screened for signs of a fever -- by the same officials in countries incapable of controlling the outbreak without Western aid.
WaPo further scolds its readers: “Despite the fact that an infected passenger flew from Liberia to Dallas this month, that passenger, Duncan, was not sick -- and was therefore not contagious -- while he was traveling. And once people become symptomatic, they become very sick, very quickly.
In this case, it is unlikely that a sick person could go 10 days without seeking medical care, CDC Director Tom Frieden said on Tuesday.”
Well, as long as Duncan didn’t have a fever on the plane, it doesn’t matter that he was violently vomiting outside of his apartment as medical workers, unaware he was contagious, took him back to the hospital.
3. The feds fail to convey urgency or seriousness and pass the buck to local hospitals, where paper protocols can quickly break down. The hospital failed to follow CDC containment procedure. Yes, the ambulance took him back to the hospital,Reuters reports. Back on September 25, Duncan visited Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with a fever. He told a nurse he had been in Liberia as few as seven days ago -- but incredibly, she failed to notify other hospital personnel of his travel history, disobeying CDC procedures that required placing Duncan in isolation immediately. Who knows how many people with whom Duncan truly came into contact? One thing is clear: When hospital ambulance crews loaded the vomiting Duncan onto a stretcher, they unknowingly exposed themselves to Ebola, and depriving the hospital of much-needed manpower.
4. The Obama administration failed to enforce existing immigration law to protect American citizens from epidemics in foreign countries. The Immigration and Nationality Act grants them power to discriminate -- yes, discriminate -- against foreigners who could pose a threat to Americans, whether it be from contagion, criminal character, mental illness, drug abuse, and a bevy of other disqualifications.Section 212 [ 8 U.S.C. 1182 ]
“Classes of Aliens Ineligible for Visas or Admission,” classifies anyone “who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to have a communicable disease of public health significance” to be ineligible to receive U.S. visas. Surely Ebola, which has claimed 3,338 lives and threatens at least 1.4 million more in West Africa, qualifies. Unsurprisingly, the Obama administration refuses to execute this law: It also makes hundreds of thousands of Central American illegals pouring across the southern border, carrying other undiagnosed exotic diseases, ineligible for entry, let alone carting around the country in commercial airliners.
5. The Department of Health and Human Services has transformed into a political outfit too busy covering for Obamacare’s failures to respond to other health crises. The last two announcements from the department are both titled, “The Affordable Care Act is working.” Rather than drafting a set of emergency procedures to determine self-protective measures concerning travel and immigration, HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell is busy preaching to the choir at a D.C. think tank.
Now: Imagine it’s 2005. A deadly Ebola outbreak has ravaged a community of Liberians living in Dallas, Texas, after a Ghana national flew into the states and vomited before his nephews and sister. He died after a few weeks in quarantine -- none of the newly developed Ebola vaccines were available in the U.S., having been sent to American troops stationed in Liberia aiding African governments. The George W. Bush administration announced that the U.S. will not impose any travel restrictions or additional screenings on passengers traveling from West African countries -- but quietly imposed restrictions later, after airline stocks tanked and more Africans from Ebola-stricken countries, desperate for medical care and asylum, flew to the U.S. and carried the virus with them. Imagine the feverish tweets from reporters.
In 2014, they won’t ask President Obama one simple question: When did it become White House policy to import deadly diseases into the U.S.?
Follow Katie on Twitter: @k_mcq.
< “We've provided guidance to pilots, flight attendants and others who are responsible for staffing our transportation infrastructure to ensure that if they notice individuals who are exhibiting symptoms that the proper authorities are notified,” said White House press secretary John Earnest Tuesday >
Odumbo & Co. are dumber than a rock. They actually think a pilot will check out all the passengers on his/her flight? And flight attendants are supposed to be medical personnel now? They are expected to analyze the conditions and behavior of up to hundreds of passengers? Who is a bigger threat to the US? The current administration or ISIS?
Odumbo & Co. are dumber than a rock. They actually think a pilot will check out all the passengers on his/her flight? And flight attendants are supposed to be medical personnel now? They are expected to analyze the conditions and behavior of up to hundreds of passengers? Who is a bigger threat to the US? The current administration or ISIS?
Can you imagine being a member of one these flight crews servicing the Liberian airport. Airplanes are cesspools of germs...say someone has Ebola but displays no symptoms as they get on the plane (we are told this means they are not contagious). What are the odds that they will begin to display symptoms WHILE ON THE FLIGHT. I would say the odds are good enough so that there would be no way in hell, I, as a member of a flight crew would be getting anywhere near the affected countries.
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