E-Bola

[YankeeFan]

Meet your new Ebola Czar, Ron Klain:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/17/politics/ebola-czar-ron-klain/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

 

[Dick Whitman]

How many more Americans have to die before Obama gets this **** under control?

As far as "panic" and political consequences, everything changes if one of these nurses dies.

I'm sure there will be panic in the streets.

 

[YankeeFan]

You do know the Constitution can be amended, don't you?

So, since bans are supposed to make us safer, why aren't the Republicans offering a Constitutional Amendment to ban guns?

LOL.

Your argument would have enough merit to discuss Baron. I didn't say it was a winning argument.

Start another thread, and we can discuss it all you want, but the evidence is that more guns make us safer.

 

[Dick Whitman]

(T)he evidence is that more guns make us safer.

Yes, it's irrefutable.

 

[YankeeFan]

I'm sure there will be panic in the streets.

C'mon ****. Your own wife is afraid of Ebola. If a single American dies as a result of this guy bringing it here, worry will go up.

And, the place where "panic" may really manifest itself is among healthcare workers.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

You do know the Constitution can be amended, don't you?

So, since bans are supposed to make us safer, why aren't the Republicans offering a Constitutional Amendment to ban guns?

LOL.

Your argument would have enough merit to discuss Baron. I didn't say it was a winning argument.

Start another thread, and we can discuss it all you want, but the evidence is that more guns make us safer.

I wouldn't want to be accused of starting a political thread.

 

[Boom_70]

Meet your new Ebola Czar, Ron Klain:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/17/politics/ebola-czar-ron-klain/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

"Klain will report to both White House homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco and National Security Advisor Susan Rice, according to a White House official."

Always good to have more than one Chief to report to

 

[User 11148]

Meet your new Ebola Czar, Ron Klain:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/17/politics/ebola-czar-ron-klain/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

"Klain will report to both White House homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco and National Security Advisor Susan Rice, according to a White House official."

Always good to have more than one Chief to report to

Shame there's not a Surgeon General to unify the chain of command.

 

[YankeeFan]

Thankfully, we have someone like Klain, who's a skilled Doctor, and an Ebola expert, available to lead the team.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Thankfully, we have someone like Klain, who's a skilled Doctor, and an Ebola expert, available to lead the team.

If it stops this runaway virus that is killing so many Americans, then it will have been the right choice, regardless.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

I don't blame anyone who is freaking out over Ebola even though 99.999999 percent of the time it's not warranted.

The networks are covering it like an outbreak is near. People who don't know what complete bull**** the nightly news has become may be taking it at face value. You can see the looks of disgust on the anchors' faces when they actually have a rational person on who is downplaying the need to panic.

 

[YankeeFan]

Ebola has claimed the life of one Strawman; others likely to follow:

The clamor to ban flights from the African Ebola zone to the United States is rising sharply, but fire up Expedia, Travelocity, Kayak or whatever website you want and just try to find those flights from Freetown, Sierra Leone; Monrovia, Liberia; or Conakry, Guinea.

They don’t exist, and there’s the rub.

Banning visas, O.K. Screening passengers for fever, sure. But a flight ban would involve stopping flights not from West Africa, but from London, Amsterdam or other European cities. Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian and the only person to die of Ebola on American soil, flew here via Brussels. Little wonder that Nicholas E. Calio, the head of the airlines lobby and a former George W. Bush White House aide, said passenger screenings coordinated between airports in West Africa, Europe and the United States should do the trick.

“Because of these coordinated efforts, we believe discussions of flight bans are not necessary and actually impede efforts to stop the disease in its tracks in West Africa,” Mr. Calio wrote for Airlines for America, the airline industry group.

It’s a complicated matter, but in a charged political season, don’t think logistics will impede the clamor for a travel ban from West Africa. Just don’t expect to hear much about flight changes in Belgium or at Heathrow.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2014/10/17/?entry=2732&_php=true&_type=blogs

I'm also shocked to learn that he airline industry's top lobbyist doesn't want to see international travel shut down.

 

[Boom_70]

Thankfully, we have someone like Klain, who's a skilled Doctor, and an Ebola expert, available to lead the team.

Agreed. Highly regarded. I believe that he was chief of surgery at Hopkins for a time.

 

[BTExpress]

How many more Americans have to die before Obama gets this **** under control?

Good lord.

27,000 Americans died of polio in 1947, on the heels of a four-term American president who was stricken by the disease.

 

[User 11148]

How many more Americans have to die before Obama gets this **** under control?

Good lord.

27,000 Americans died of polio in 1947, on the heels of a four-term American president who was stricken by the disease.

Call me crazy, but I think DW was engaging in a bit of rhetoric there.

 

[BTExpress]

Yeah, probably. :D

 

[YankeeFan]

Noonan:

The administration’s handling of the Ebola crisis continues to be marked by double talk, runaround and gobbledygook. And its logic is worse than its language. In many of its actions, especially its public pronouncements, the government is functioning not as a soother of public anxiety but the cause of it.

An example this week came in the dialogue between Megyn Kelly of Fox News and Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control.

Their conversation focused largely on the government’s refusal to stop travel into the United States by citizens of plague nations. “Why not put a travel ban in place,” Ms. Kelly asked, while we shore up the U.S. public-health system?

Dr. Frieden replied that we now have screening at airports, and “we’ve already recommended that all nonessential travel to these countries be stopped for Americans.” He added: “We’re always looking at ways that we can better protect Americans.”

“But this is one,” Ms. Kelly responded.

Dr. Frieden implied a travel ban would be harmful: “If we do things that are going to make it harder to stop the epidemic there, it’s going to spread to other parts of—”

http://online.wSportsJournalists.com/articles/who-do-they-think-we-are-1413502475

 

[YankeeFan]

Hopefully, Jay Farrar is not scratching his head, wondering why I'm quoting the guy from Caddy Shack.

 

[da man]

I'm sure there will be panic in the streets.

C'mon ****. Your own wife is afraid of Ebola. If a single American dies as a result of this guy bringing it here, worry will go up.

And, the place where "panic" may really manifest itself is among healthcare workers.

And Frontier Airlines passengers.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Noonan:

The administration’s handling of the Ebola crisis continues to be marked by double talk, runaround and gobbledygook. And its logic is worse than its language. In many of its actions, especially its public pronouncements, the government is functioning not as a soother of public anxiety but the cause of it.

An example this week came in the dialogue between Megyn Kelly of Fox News and Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control.

Their conversation focused largely on the government’s refusal to stop travel into the United States by citizens of plague nations. “Why not put a travel ban in place,” Ms. Kelly asked, while we shore up the U.S. public-health system?

Dr. Frieden replied that we now have screening at airports, and “we’ve already recommended that all nonessential travel to these countries be stopped for Americans.” He added: “We’re always looking at ways that we can better protect Americans.”

“But this is one,” Ms. Kelly responded.

Dr. Frieden implied a travel ban would be harmful: “If we do things that are going to make it harder to stop the epidemic there, it’s going to spread to other parts of—”

http://online.wSportsJournalists.com/articles/who-do-they-think-we-are-1413502475

Vibrations are telling Peggy Noonan that this is a huge threat.