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Thanks To Obama’s Incompetence, Ebola Is Now Out Of Control In America

Michael Snyder October 16, 2014
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Much of the responsibility for the Ebola crisis that the United States is now facing can be laid squarely at the feet of Barack Obama. If Obama had banned all non-essential air travel between the U.S. and West Africa, Thomas Eric Duncan would have never gotten on to a plane to this country in the first place. And if Obama had directed the CDC to get all hospital staff in America some basic training about Ebola, we might not have two infected nurses at this point. But instead, this Ebola outbreak in America is now officially out of control. The fact that one of the sick nurses got on to an airplane while she was feeling feverish boggles the mind, and it is creating a tremendous amount of fear all over the nation. Already, one traveler showed up at Dulles airport in a full hazmat suit. The White House has announced that Obama has canceled a fundraising trip and will be holding an "emergency meeting" on Ebola. Hopefully he can start to get a handle on what is going on before it is too late.

News that a second nurse that was caring for Thomas Eric Duncan has Ebola sent shockwaves all over the country. Apparently those caring for him did not wear hazmat suits for the first two days. This is such a monstrous error that it is hard to put into words.
What made things even worse is that this second nurse decided to get on a plane even after she began exhibiting symptoms…

The CDC has announced that the second healthcare worker diagnosed with Ebola — now identified as Amber Joy Vinson of Dallas — traveled by air Oct. 13, with a low-grade fever, a day before she showed up at the hospital reporting symptoms.
The CDC is now reaching out to all passengers who flew on Frontier Airlines flight 1143 Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth. The flight landed at 8:16 p.m. CT.
All 132 passengers on the flight are being asked to call 1 800-CDC INFO (1 800 232-4636). Public health professionals will begin interviewing passengers about the flight Wednesday afternoon.

If she was showing symptoms,
she was contagious.
Isn't that what we have been told all along?
But CDC director Thomas Frieden, who, like Barack Obama, was reportedly once a "community organizer," says that the risk to other passengers on that flight was "very low"…

CDC director Thomas Frieden said she had violated CDC guidelines against anyone using public transport while undergoing self-monitoring for exposure to Ebola. Frieden said Vinson did not report that her temperature had risen a small amount, to 99.5 degrees, before she departed for Dallas. He said her risk to other passengers was "very low."

How in the world can he say that with a straight face?
She was showing symptoms.
She was contagious.
Anyone on that flight could now have Ebola.
And we might not know who has it for quite some time. According to the CDC, the incubation period for Ebola can be up to 21 days…

The incubation period, from exposure to when signs or symptoms appear, for Ebola ranges from 2 to 21 days (most commonly 8-10 days). Early symptoms include sudden fever, chills, and muscle aches. Around the fifth day, a skin rash can occur. Nausea, vomiting, chest pain, sore throat, abdominal pain, and diarrhea may follow.

But that information might not even be accurate.
A WHO report that was just released says that Ebola can have an incubation period of up to 42 days.
So several weeks from now we might have Ebola cases popping up all over the country.
We just don't know.
And what makes all of this even worse is the fact that the plane this happened on continued to be used for five more flights after the sick nurse got off…

The Frontier Airlines jet that carried a Dallas healthcare worker diagnosed with Ebola made five additional flights after her trip before it was taken out of service, according to a flight-monitoring website.
Denver-based Frontier said in a statement that it grounded the plane immediately after the carrier was notified late Tuesday night by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the Ebola patient.

What a nightmare.
In addition, there may already be more cases of Ebola in Dallas.
Shtfplan.com is reporting that the boyfriend of nurse Nina Pham is a potential case.
And CNN has reported that the CDC is "assessing" four additional health care workers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Just check out this screenshot.
Normally, Barack Obama's incompetence doesn't immediately cause a major national emergency.
But in this case, that may be exactly what has happened.


Obama should have ordered the CDC to be all over the first case of Ebola in Dallas.
But instead, CNN is reporting that nurses are claiming that "there were no protocols" for dealing with the Ebola patient…

Also Tuesday, National Nurses United made troubling allegations about the hospital, claiming "guidelines were constantly changing" and "there were no protocols" about how to deal with the deadly virus."
"The protocols that should have been in place in Dallas were not in place, and that those protocols are not in place anywhere in the United States as far as we can tell," NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro said. "We're deeply alarmed."
Nurses were told to wrap their necks with medical tape when equipment left their necks exposed; they felt unsupported and unprepared, and they received no hands-on training, union co-president Deborah Burger said.

In addition, it is being reported that at the hospital there was "no one to pick up hazardous waste as it piled to the ceiling" during the treatment of Thomas Eric Duncan.
Soiled sheets and clothing just sat there and kept on piling up.
At this point, the head of the CDC should immediately resign in disgrace. The incompetence that he is displaying is absolutely appalling.
For example, during a single press conference he recently claimed that you cannot get Ebola by sitting on a bus, but that you can spread it by riding on a bus…

Dr. Tom Frieden, director for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said during a telephone press briefing Wednesday that you cannot get Ebola by sitting next to someone on a bus, but that infected or exposed persons should not ride public transportation because they could transmit the disease to someone else.

Say what?
At this point confusion reigns in Washington.
And they better get their act together soon because we could be on the verge of the worst health crisis in U.S. history.
Some leaders in Washington are already starting to become extremely critical of the "leadership" of the Obama administration and the CDC. For instance, this week Rand Paul accused Obama of "lying to the American people" about this crisis…

Senator Rand Paul has accused Barack Obama of downplaying the threat posed by Ebola for political purposes, alleging that the President has "failed to show leadership" on the issue.
In an interview this morning with Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, the Kentucky Senator was asked by host Dom Giordano if the Ebola outbreak was morphing into an issue of incompetence and the White House "lying to the American people."
"It adds to just a litany of things that the President has let us down on and failed to show leadership," responded Paul. "So, I think it's one thing after another, it's not just one issue. The lack of leadership on Ebola, the equivocating, the downplaying, the underplaying, the, sort of, trying to calm everyone with really not being completely frank about the transmissibility of the disease, I think, doesn't help any of them at the polls."

Like I said earlier, most of the time Obama's incompetence doesn't have immediate dramatic consequences.
But this time it might result in the deaths of countless numbers of Americans.
We have reached a tipping point. If Ebola is not controlled soon, we could be facing the worst pandemic in modern history. In fact, the UN says that we only have 60 days to avert an unprecedented global crisis…

The UN says the ebola outbreak must be controlled within 60 days or else the world faces an "unprecedented" situation for which there is no plan.
The United Nations made the stark warning as it warned that the disease "is running faster than us and it is winning the race."
Nearly 9,000 cases of ebola have been reported so far in West Africa, including 4,447 deaths.

So are Obama and the rest of our "leaders" in Washington up to the task?
Please feel free to share your thoughts on the matter by posting a comment below…

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Human Events

Things are getting bizarre at The White House:




Enter the Ebola Czar
The clearest sign yet that President Obama views Ebola as a political problem.
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Enter the Ebola Czar



By: John Hayward
10/17/2014 12:30 PM

Weekly Examiner: Obama appoints Ebola czar
President Obama on Friday appointed Ron Klain as Ebola czar after days of speculation on whether or not Obama would appoint someone to the job.
Washington Examiner

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You couldn’t ask for a more clear signal that President Obama views Ebola as an entirely political problem than his sudden announcement of a hard-core Democrat political operative with absolutely zero medical experience as the new “Ebola Czar.” This is such a weird move that you’ve got to wonder why he did it. The only certain conclusion is that it has very little to do with keeping Americans safe from Ebola.
Upon hearing that political operative Ron Klain had been tapped for this job, I immediately wondered why Obama wasn’t announcing the termination, and possibly punishment, of the Ebola Czar he already has: Dr. Nicole Lurie, the extremely unprepared and utterly non-responsive Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services, a perch she has held from July 2009 until her disappearance five seconds after the Ebola crisis began. But no, according to Fox News, she’s still around, incredibly still consuming precious taxpayer resources despite having no contribution to the primary reason her job exists, suffering nothing worse than having to watch a hack who specializes at bare-knuckle politics vaulted into position above her:

Responding to growing calls to appoint an “Ebola czar” to lead America’s battle against the deadly virus, sources confirm to Fox News that President Obama plans to name Ron Klain, a longtime political hand with no apparent medical or health care background.
He did, however, serve as chief of staff to Al Gore and later Vice President Biden.
In making the appointment, Obama will effectively bypass another official, Dr. Nicole Lurie, who has served as assistant secretary for preparedness and response (ASPR) at the Department of Health and Human Services since July 2009.
Congress, nearly a decade ago, created that post, which would seem to fit the bill for Ebola coordinator — at least on paper.
Yet, as Obama prepares to name Klain, the senior official currently filling that health job has been virtually absent from the public eye. She’s on the team, the Obama administration insists — just not in the lead.
A spokesman with HHS told Fox News that Lisa Monaco, the president’s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, is still playing an “overall coordinating role” from the White House. But in addition to roles played by other agencies, “Dr. Lurie and her team in ASPR are dealing primarily with advance development of countermeasures, [Public Health Service] deployment, and hospital outreach.”
In other words, Lurie is part of the cast but by no means a central character.

This isn’t reassuring – it’s a straight-up insult to the American people. We’ll get a Beltway spinner installed above the existing six-figure officials who dropped every ball Ebola tossed them? Obama just named a political officer to manage the Cabinet secretaries who managed the CDC director who managed to lose control of Ebola.
One could make the case that management has been more deficient than medicine in the Ebola response thus far, and doctors don’t always make the best managers. That’s not an unreasonable argument, although it begs the question of why the existing layers of management haven’t been able to deal with a problem that so far encompasses fewer people that can be found traveling the President’s entourage when he does a fundraiser. If Lurie’s position is redundant, it should be eliminated, distributing its financial and human resources to more effective offices; and if CDC Director Tom Frieden can’t handle his job, he should be replaced. The solution is not to install yet another layer of supervision atop a Table of Organization that already looks like a spiderweb.
But that’s exactly the sort of solution that appeals to a President who very rarely concedes that anyone in his Administration has made a mistake, or perpetrated a scandal. His internal polls are probably being delivered by guys in hazmat suits who handle the papers with iron tongs these days, so he had to do something. The only thing it would ever occur to Obama to do is create a new office, while congratulating everyone already occupying a perch in the hierarchy for a job well done.
In any event, the idea of bringing more management skills to the Ebola problem doesn’t square very well with Klain’s resume. He was involved in Al Gore’s recount shenanigans in 2000, served as chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, was mixed up in the Solyndra disaster, and had a role in doling out funds from Obama’s “stimulus” debacle. (I wonder if he ever kicked back with the President and shared a laugh about how there’s no such thing as “shovel-ready jobs” after all?) He’s a political fixer, not a manager, and unless we’re looking to bankrupt Ebola, there’s not much in his list of accomplishments that makes him seem like the perfect man for the job. He’s a hardened Party loyalist, not a crisis manager, which makes one suspect Obama is gearing up for political battles ahead – from the final weeks of the midterm election season, and into the next Congress – rather than epidemiology. This is the kind of play you make if you’re worried about protecting the lavish funding of HHS from critics armed with lists of frivolous spending.
It’s also a sop to rally dispirited liberals, who are racing to their keyboards to bang out praise for Klain… especially those Klain has personally praised on social media over the years. A partisan food fight and clash of personalities is just the thing to drag this dreary Ebola-laced news cycle through the Sunday shows. The first cream pies have already been thrown, as Byron York at the Washington Examiner quotes Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) describing Klain’s appointment as “incredibly disappointing”:

“It would disappoint me to think that this administration would appoint someone who is in the communications arena,” Blackburn said shortly after learning the news Friday morning, “and is not someone with experience in emergency response, with experience in public health, that has managed an outbreak or an epidemic or a pandemic or some such situation. That is what is needed right now.”
Blackburn said the “exponential growth” in the number of Americans affected by Ebola, from the two patients with the disease to the hundreds who are under some sort of watch, calls for a more vigorous response. The appointment of Klain, perhaps best known as Al Gore’s top staffer in the battle over the 2000 presidential election, is not the sort of vigorous response Blackburn and others had in mind. “The American people want the confidence that someone who understands infectious disease is in charge,” she said.

A few days of people digging up crazy things Klain has said about the 2000 elections should make for a fine distraction, a shot of grease to get the wheels of the news cycle turning again. Meanwhile, I doubt the American people will be terribly reassured by a fresh political appointment, and probably wouldn’t have much more cheered if Klain’s post had been given to a brilliant doctor or non-partisan problem solver. They’re looking for Obama to take charge and do something, not appoint someone to handle talk-show fallout. They’re not really looking for the coaching staff to be reshuffled – they want to see some new plays on the field. Since the play clock is already running, we can only hope we get through the next week without any more bad news.
Update: Add Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) to the list of those disappointed by the new Ebola Czar, as reported by the Washington Times:

“This is a public health crisis, and the answer isn’t another White House political operative,” Mr. Cruz said. “The answer is a commander in chief who stands up and leads, banning flights from Ebola-afflicted nations and acting decisively to secure our southern border.”
[...] Mr. Cruz said the Ebola outbreak shouldn’t be treated as “yet another partisan battle by the White House.
“Rather, we should come together in bipartisan unity to take these common-sense steps to protect the American people,” he said. “And if the president will not act, if he will not lead, then Congress should immediately reconvene for an emergency session to enact a flight ban and take any other necessary measures to protect the health and safety of Americans.”

Which is probably another reason Obama picked Klain: he wants a partisan street fighter to hold up resistance against a travel ban for as long as possible.

Update: The Hill notes that the White House was fast out of the gate in “mocking” Republicans who dare to criticize the selection of Klain:

The White House dismissed Republican criticism of the selection of longtime Democratic aide Ron Klain to head the federal Ebola response, suggesting the GOP was “seeking to score political points” before Election Day.

“That’s a shocking development there,” press secretary Josh Earnest said when told Republican lawmakers had criticized the selection of Klain because he does not have a public health background.

“Three weeks before an Election Day, and Republicans are seeking to score political points,” Earnest said. “Stop the presses!”

That goes a long way towards demonstrating that Klain was chosen primarily as an act of political trolling; they put him out there because they knew what Republicans would say about him.



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DEVELOPING: Ebola Scare As Vomiting Passenger Dies On Flight From Nigeria To JFK.
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DEVELOPING: Ebola Scare As Vomiting Passenger Dies On Flight From Nigeria To JFK
Excerpted from The New York Post: A plane from Nigeria landed at JFK Airport Thursday with a male passenger aboard who had died during the flight after a fit...
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DEVELOPING: Ebola Scare As Vomiting Passenger Dies On Flight From Nigeria To JFK

Posted on Friday, October 17th, 2014 at 1:15 am.
by: Thomas Jefferson



Excerpted from The New York Post: A plane from Nigeria landed at JFK Airport Thursday with a male passenger aboard who had died during the flight after a fit of vomiting — and CDC officials conducted a “cursory” exam before announcing there was no Ebola and turning the corpse over to Port Authority cops to remove, Rep. Peter King said on Thursday.
The congressman was so alarmed by the incident — and by what he and employees see as troubling Ebola vulnerabilities at JFK — that he fired off a letter to the federal Department of Homeland Security demanding more training and tougher protocols for handling possible cases there.
The unnamed, 63-year-old passenger had boarded an Arik Air plane out of Lagos, Nigeria, on Wednesday night, a federal law enforcement source said.
During the flight, the man had been vomiting in his seat, the source said. Some time before the plane landed, he passed away. Flight crew contacted the CDC, federal customs officials and Port Authority police, who all boarded the plane at around 6 a.m. as about 145 worried passengers remained on board, the source said.
“The door [to the terminal] was left open, which a lot of the first responders found alarming,” said the source.

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Passenger On Flight From Nigeria to NY Dies in Vomiting Fit
An “unnamed passenger,” age 63, died on a Nigeria-to-JFK flight after a vomiting fit Thursday — and officials gave the corpse only a “cursory” exam …
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Passenger On Flight From Nigeria to NY Dies in Vomiting Fit
A man died on a Nigeria-to-JFK flight of a vomiting fit Thursday — officials gave the corpse a “cursory” exam before saying the dead man did not...
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Passenger On Flight From Nigeria to NY Dies in Vomiting Fit

Rodney Lee Conover — October 17, 2014

An “unnamed passenger,” age 63, died on a Nigeria-to-JFK flight after a vomiting fit Thursday — and officials gave the corpse only a “cursory” exam before saying the dead man did not have Ebola.
Nothing to worry about here folks, move along.
The late flyer apparently flew out of Lagos, Nigeria, which has had 19 Ebola cases this year – but listen – the CDC and other officials of the Obama Administration have things under control. Don’t worry, be happy – there definitely will not be any Ebola in America..
And if there is, it won’t spread. And if it spreads, we always have Homeland Security – so the President is prepared, you can all go back into your hovels and wait for orders.
This is sick:
Hat tip NY Post:
Rep. Peter King said in a letter to Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection that the handling of the remains exposed serious flaws in airport preparedness for an Ebola outbreak.
Between 70 and 100 passengers a day arrive at JFK from the Ebola epicenter countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, King noted, and they have access to public restrooms and mingle with other travelers before their first screening.
“Given the high volume of travelers at JFK, it is essential that extraordinary measures are taken to intercept possible Ebola-infected passengers,” while keeping the public and first responders safe, King (R-LI) wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Customs Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske.
“These individuals transit the airport with the rest of the traveling population, including using the restrooms,” King wrote.
“It is only after they arrive at the Customs and Border Protection primary screening location that they are separated and sent to secondary inspection for a medical check and to complete the questionnaire,” he wrote Johnson.

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