Ebola starting to sound like a movie script.

jd50ae

BREAKING NEWS: 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 will name Ron Klain, a longtime Washington political hand with no apparent health care background — but who did serve as chief of staff to vice presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden.

Obama to name longtime political aide as 'Ebola czar,' bypassing senior health official

WH Press Sec: ‘Likely’ More Americans Will Get Ebola.

In a White House press conference, White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters that the administration considered it possible, “even likely,” that more Americans would contract Ebola, especially healthcare workers from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
EARNEST: The risk of a widespread outbreak of Ebola in the United States is exceedingly low. We don’t anticipate that’s going to happen. What we do anticipate is certainly possible– maybe even likely– is that some additional cases of Ebola will occur. It is possible, again, maybe even likely that there will be additional healthcare workers from this hospital in Dallas who treated Mr. Duncan who may have contracted the virus. So that’s why we are actively monitoring the health of other healthcare workers that came in contact with him.
It certainly is possible that other individuals will travel to this country that don’t exhibit symptoms in transit but after they arrive may have the virus.

CDC Doled Out $25 Million In Bonuses While Blaming Cuts For Ebola Outbreak

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times
Top public health officials have collected $25 million in bonuses since 2007, carving out extra pay for themselves in tight federal budgetary times while blaming a lack of money for the Obama administration’s lackluster response to the Ebola outbreak.
U.S. taxpayers gave $6 billion in salaries and $25 million in bonuses to an elite corps of health care specialists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 2007, according to data compiled by American Transparency’s OpenTheBooks.com, an online portal aggregating 1.3 billion lines of federal, state and local spending. The agency’s head count increased by 23 percent during that time, adding manpower and contributing to higher payrolls despite relatively flat funding.
From 2010 to 2013, all federal wages were frozen because of budgetary constraints, but CDC officials found a way to pay themselves through bonuses, overtime, within-grade increases and promotion pay raises.

Obama CDC Let's Ebola Nurse on Cruise Ship

By JIM KUHNHENN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama administration officials said a Dallas health care worker who handled a lab specimen from an Ebola-infected man from Liberia who died of the disease is on a Caribbean cruise ship where she has self-quarantined and is being monitored for any signs of infection.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement Friday that the woman had shown no signs of the disease and has been asymptomatic for 19 days.
The government is working to return the woman and her husband to the U.S. before the ship completes its cruise. The White House said the State Department was working to secure their transportation home.

Africa Says Closing Borders Helped Stem Ebola BY TOM ODULA AND LYNSEY CHUTEL, ASSOCIATED PRESS
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Health officials battling the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa have managed to limit its spread on the continent to five countries - and two of them appear to have snuffed out the disease.
The developments constitute a modest success in an otherwise bleak situation.
Officials credit tighter border controls, good patient-tracking and other medical practices, and just plain luck with keeping Ebola confined mostly to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea since the outbreak was first identified nearly seven months ago.

Of course we have no border controls and obozo killed the outbreak rules.

Brutal Lessons In America's Ebola Response

By Michael Gerson, Washington Post
In any health care setting, it is wise to listen to the nurses, who see all. Their reports from Dallas about the initial procedures used in treating Thomas Eric Duncan are appalling. Safety suits with exposed necklines left nurses to cover skin with tape. When tape is removed, it abrades the skin. One health expert I consulted described this practice in dealing with Ebola as “moronic.”
Proper protocols are now in place. But Ebola in America has been an exacting and brutal teacher.
First, we have seen that the infectiousness of Ebola increases as a patient grows sicker and the level of the virus spikes in his or her bloodstream. To the general public, this should provide some reassurance. When a patient begins to feel weak and achy at home, he or she is less likely to spread the disease. None of the people who lived in tight quarters with Duncan has (as of this writing) reported infection.

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times - Wednesday, October 15, 2014

The Centers for Disease Control told the incoming Obama administration in 2008 that it should establish 18 regional disease detection centers around the world to adequately safeguard the U.S. from emerging health threats like Ebola, according to an agency memo.
But six years later, as the government struggles to contain the fallout from a deadly Ebola outbreak at home and abroad, the CDC still has only 10 centers — and none of them operates in the western Africa region hardest hit by the deadly virus.
“The existing centers have already proven their effectiveness and impact on detecting and responding to outbreaks including avian influenza, aflatoxin poisoning, Rift Valley fever, Ebola and Marburg virus outbreaks,” the CDC said in its memo to the Obama transition team, which The Washington Times obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

I know we have people in this country that can stop the spread of Ebola------if only the feds would let them.

jgibv

source: NPR (biased liberals)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/02/352983774/no-seriously-how-contagious-is-ebola

#facts not fear

and no, i did not read your entire "copy & paste" article.

jd50ae

Sure is a pretty picture.

raisindot

I'm not reading the usual cut and paste of hysteria and right wing politicizing of this issue, either. Instead, I'm actually going to give praise to the most rationale commentary on Ebola presented by--who would have thought-- FOXNews commentator Shephard Smith, in which he calmly and rationale states the facts and rails against the Ebola hysteria in the media, much of it originating on his own network. Rarely if ever do I praise anything that FOXnews puts on the air, but the fact that they let Shephard speak his piece is worth calling out.

And, to keep the conservatives around here from having to view this commentary surrounded by liberal praise for it, I'm instead posting a link to his commentary on the Briebart Report, a right-wing site that has been one of the foremost spreaders of Ebola-related hysteria.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/10/15/Shepard-Smith-Lectures-America-as-Obama-Response-Allows-Ebola-To-Spread

kuzi16

raisindot:

I'm not reading the usual cut and paste of hysteria and right wing politicizing of this issue, either. Instead, I'm actually going to give praise to the most rationale commentary on Ebola presented by--who would have thought-- FOXNews commentator Shephard Smith, in which he calmly and rationale states the facts and rails against the Ebola hysteria in the media, much of it originating on his own network. Rarely if ever do I praise anything that FOXnews puts on the air, but the fact that they let Shephard speak his piece is worth calling out.

yes.

i cant believe how many people hit the panic button already.

just get informed. dont freak out.

on that note, i am gunna go get a flu shot in the next few days. the flu kills many more than ebola has every year.

Amos_Umwhat

Maybe sounding like a movie script is good. All we'll need to do is act really stupid and send in Angelina or Jennifer about half dressed and we're saved!

Patrickbrick

I just tune this crap out, it's ridiculous how the media turns something relatively small into a HUGE deal.

jd50ae

kuzi16:

raisindot:

I'm not reading the usual cut and paste of hysteria and right wing politicizing of this issue, either. Instead, I'm actually going to give praise to the most rationale commentary on Ebola presented by--who would have thought-- FOXNews commentator Shephard Smith, in which he calmly and rationale states the facts and rails against the Ebola hysteria in the media, much of it originating on his own network. Rarely if ever do I praise anything that FOXnews puts on the air, but the fact that they let Shephard speak his piece is worth calling out.

yes.

i cant believe how many people hit the panic button already.

just get informed. dont freak out.

on that note, i am gunna go get a flu shot in the next few days. the flu kills many more than ebola has every year.

Not freaked out. IT DOES SOUND LIKE A MOVIE SCRIPT. Ever watch "The Last Ship"?

raisindot

You can use fictional pandemic/dystopia movie analogies all you want, but in today's hysterical, paranoid, witch-hunting America, the real life actions of idiot Americans are far more scarier. Like the stupid town in Maine that forced a teacher who attended a conference in Dallas to go on paid quarantine leave for 21 days!!

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2014/10/portland_maine_teacher_given_21-day_paid_leave_for_being_generally_proximate_to_ebola.php

What's the next step? Quarantine anyone from Dallas who goes anywhere else in America? Don't allow any flights originating from Dallas or Texas to land at any U.S. airports? Forbid any products made in Texas from being sold anywhere? (Not going to make the obvious political joke here.)

jd50ae

Watchdog: Obama To Bring Non-American Ebola Victims To U.S. For Treatment

By Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner

While the bipartisan voice grows to ban Ebola victims from entering the United States, a new report claims that President Obama is considering a plan to bring the world’s Ebola patients to the United States to be treated.

Judicial Watch, the conservative public watchdog group, says in a shocking report that the president is “actively formulating plans” to admit Ebola-infected non-citizens just to be treated.

“Specifically, the goal of the administration is to bring Ebola patients into the United States for treatment within the first days of diagnosis,” said the group.

jd50ae

Democrats In About-Face, Now Calling For Ebola Travel Bans

By Todd Beamon, Newsmax

Democrats are now sounding more like Republicans on the Ebola crisis, with candidates in critical races calling this week for travel bans to avoid being tied to yet another Obama administration debacle as Election Day nears.
"It is just common sense that we need a travel ban from West Africa," Democratic pollster and analyst Doug Schoen told Newsmax on Saturday. "And Democrats have realized that in tight Senate races that hang in the balance it is common sense, not partisanship, that gives them the best chance of getting elected."
This is particularly acute "in a year where the president's job approval is at or below 40 percent in swing states," Schoen said.
Perhaps the biggest flip-flop came on Friday, when North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan called for a West African ban — two days after dismissing it as a way to contain the deadly disease.

jd50ae

Report: With Ebola Crisis Raging, Obama Administration Started Streamlining Visas From West Africa In August

By Katie Pavlich, Townhall

Not only is the Ebola crisis continuing to degrade, but the optics of how the White House has handled the situation are getting worse by the day too.
A new report published at Breitbart shows the Obama administration started expediting visas from West Africa in August as the Ebola was (and still is) raging out of control with a 70 percent mortality rate. According to the report, the man who died from Ebola in a Texas hospital after visiting Liberia, had his visa approved in the same month visas were being streamlined.
In short, the USCIS has been waiving fees, expediting the immigration process, and allowing extensions of visas for anyone coming from the three designated Ebola-stricken countries, provided that they are in the United States. The Free Republic blog reported that the law firm of Edward W. Neufville, III, LLC, a Washington, D.C. area immigration firm, added a section to their website two days after the USCIS announcement, with more details about how these relief measures would work, including extensions of the time that the foreign national could remain in the United States, additional work permit opportunities, and even forgiveness for failure to appear at required interviews or submit required evidence. According to the Neufville firm, the new USCIS policies mean that "ndividuals from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea currently in the United States may apply for an extension or change in status due to the Ebola Outbreak, even if their request is filed after the authorized period of admission has expired." Otherwise stated, this means that someone from one of those countries who illegally overstayed their visa can now apply for an extension, or someone who arrived illegally can apply to get legal status.

The3Stogies

For all the fear there has really been few cases in the US from the people in direct contact with the afflicted. As with any breaking "crisis" everyone is shouting out loud. The disease is here we must deal with it with all our resources, it's an opportunity but should be handled a little more carefully maybe. And less politics. The first nurse to get it is doing better thank God, is it because of her general health being better when she got it or our medical system? Was it the transfusion from the cured doctor? Most have died from dehydration I believe. Seems the best chance for anyone is early detection, and treatment, as with most fatal diseases.

If they recover from it are they then immune?

webmost

Nominate a lobbyist Ebola Czar. That ought to do it.

jd50ae

webmost:

Nominate a lobbyist Ebola Czar. That ought to do it.

...and we could get alec baldwin to play his part. He still does movies, right?

brianetz1

relax: