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DC Babble Outbreak

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CDC Director Thomas Frieden

DC Babble Outbreak
Oct 15 2014
Mike Huckabee

Two suspected Ebola patients, one in L.A. and one in Boston, fortunately tested negative, but they raised distrust among Americans that the CDC knows what it’s doing. And their own statements aren’t helping. Mike Huckabee

We don’t have an epidemic of Ebola, but we do seem to be suffering an outbreak of DC Babble…Two suspected Ebola patients, one in L.A. and one in Boston, fortunately tested negative, but they raised distrust among Americans that the CDC knows what it’s doing. And their own statements aren’t helping. First they assured us it wouldn’t come to the US, then that it was highly unlikely, then that it was unlikely to spread. Once it did spread on US soil, from the late patient in Dallas to a nurse who cared for him, CDC Director Thomas Frieden blamed the hospital. In a line worthy of the Pentagon babble from “M*A*S*H,” Frieden said, “I think the fact that we don’t know of a breach in protocol is concerning because clearly there was a breach in protocol.” That angered all caregivers, accusing them of making a mistake with no proof. And the hospital says the nurse wore protective gear at all times. So if all the protocols failed to stop the spread, maybe the protocol should’ve been to keep it out of the US in the first place.

https://www.mikehuckabee.com/2014/10/dc-babble-outbreak

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Ebola and Obama

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Ebola and Obama
Thomas Sowell | Oct 07, 2014

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is both a danger in itself and a wake-up call for Americans — about President Obama, about the institutions of this country and, most important, about ourselves.

There was a time when an outbreak of a deadly disease overseas would bring virtually unanimous agreement that our top priority should be to keep it overseas. Yet Barack Obama has refused to bar entry to the United States by people from countries where the Ebola epidemic rages, as Britain has done.

The reason? Refusing to let people with Ebola enter the United States would conflict with the goal of fighting the disease. In other words, the safety of the American people takes second place to the goal of helping people overseas.

As if to emphasize his priorities, President Obama has ordered thousands of American troops to go into Ebola-stricken Liberia, disregarding the dangers to those troops and to other Americans when the troops return.

https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/10/07/ebola-and-obama-n1901524

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Newly Vigilant, U.S. Will Screen Fliers for Ebola

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Newly Vigilant, U.S. Will Screen Fliers for Ebola

By SABRINA TAVERNISEOCT. 8, 2014

ATLANTA — Federal health officials will require temperature checks for the first time at five major American airports for people arriving from the three West African countries hardest hit by the deadly Ebolavirus. However, health experts said the measures were more likely to calm a worried public than to prevent many people with Ebola from entering the country.

Still, they constitute the first large-scale attempt to improve security at American ports of entry since the virus arrived on American soil last month.

They are also a notable policy shift at a time of rising concern about the disease. Public health officials had initially resisted the move, saying such checks would be an unnecessary use of thinly stretched resources. But pressure for tougher action mounted. Republicans sharply criticized President Obama for what they called a lax response. Many, including Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, have suggested looking at air travel restrictions from West Africa, something the administration has rejected.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/us/newly-vigilant-us-is-to-screen-fliers-for-ebola.html?src=twr&_r=0

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CDC multitasking hurts Ebola fight

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CDC multitasking hurts Ebola fight: Column
Glenn Harlan Reynolds5:07 p.m. EDT October 5, 2014

Disease control shouldn’t extend to playground safety and occupational hazards.

“You had one job!” is the punchline on a popularInternet meme involving organizational screw-ups. Now critics are saying something similar about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in response the agency’s handling of the Ebola outbreak. Unfortunately, it’s not true. While we’d be better off if the CDC only had one job — you know, controlling disease— the CDC has taken on all sorts of jobs unrelated to that task. Jobs that seem to have distracted its management and led to a performance that even the establishment calls “rocky.” Going forward, we need to learn this lesson, for the CDC, for other agencies, and for the government as a whole.

Ebola, as fans of The Hot Zone know, is nothing new, and neither are worries about it spreading beyond its usual range. And disease control experts have long known that the key to stopping it is finding people who were exposed, tracing their contacts, and keeping them under observation until they are past the disease’s incubation period, and keeping anyone actively contagious under quarantine until they have died or recovered.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/10/05/ebola-cdc-jobs-tasks-multitasking-thomas-duncan-column/16766801/

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We Gambled with Ebola and Lost

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We Gambled with Ebola and Lost
Let us finally end the crazy “diversity” visa lottery.
By Michelle Malkin

Ebola has reached our shores from Africa. Dozens of children are reportedly suffering paralysis from a deadly virus with unknown origins. Medical providers across the country have warned of a looming public-health crisis as communicable diseases spread unmonitored and uncontrolled. Other countries are cracking down. But America is stuck on open-borders stupid.

The Diversity Visa (DV) program, to take just one glaring example of government insanity, is still going.

On October 1, the State Department opened the annual DV random lottery to applicants from around the world. Yes, it’s completely random, like a Powerball drawing. Up to 55,000 lucky winners will snag permanent residency visas (green cards), which put them on the path to American citizenship ahead of millions of other foreigners patiently waiting to come to this country.

The green-card-lotto winners’ spouses and unmarried children under 21 all get golden tickets into the country too, no matter where they were born.

Illegal aliens are eligible if a legal family member wins the jackpot. Applicants don’t even need a high-school education. No outstanding abilities, training, or job skills are necessary. A handful of countries are excluded if they no longer qualify as “underrepresented.” But if you come from a terror-sponsoring or terror-friendly nation — such as Iran, Syria, Sudan, North Korea, or more than a dozen officially designated terror enablers on the State Department’s list — no worries. Thousands from these breeding grounds for jihad will walk through our front doors.

https://www.nationalreview.com/article/389471/we-gambled-ebola-and-lost-michelle-malkin