PING!
Posted on 10/29/2014 10:20:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The White House is launching an aggressive, public campaign to counter the movement of some states – most notably New York and New Jersey – to quarantine American health care professionals who return from treating Ebola victims in West Africa.
Obama made an unscheduled statement on the South Lawn this afternoon to highlight what he said was the need to support health care workers when they return home, support which presumably would not include isolating them. And in a staged event designed to draw attention to the issue, Obama will meet at the White House Wednesday with a group of health care professionals who have been treating Ebola patients.
The combative, almost political nature of the effort suggests the fingerprints of Ebola coordinator Ron Klain, whose background is as a Democratic political operative. Nevertheless, the aggressive nature of the campaign also suggests the White House has concluded that quarantining health workers could have disastrous consequences for the effort to quash the disease.
The president today repeatedly insisted the protocols for the health workers should be guided by “science” and “facts,” implying that the moves to quarantine health workers were ultimately irrational.
“America in the end is not defined by fear,” Obama said. “We don’t just react based on our fears – we react based on judgments.”
Obama pressed the case that hampering the ability of U.S. health care workers to head to West Africa and back would imperil worldwide efforts to stop the disease before it gets to the United States.
“If we don’t have robust response in West Africa, we are endangering ourselves at home,” he said. “They are doing God’s work over there, and they’re doing that to keep us safe.”
PING!
What an idiot.
2016 can’t come sooner.
Week now it’s official. Envy single aid worker coming back needs to be quarantined for at least 30 days. No exceptions.
Does he realize that Governors Christie and Cuomo are Democrats, too?
More likely he has determined that a successful quarantine effort would bring into question the idea of a wide open southern border. He would rather risk epidemic than put at risk the greatest increase in Democratic voters in history.
So from what I understand he sent American troops to Africa to help contain the Ebola from spreading but if it happens to get in USA he is a okay with it spreading.
it’s amazing how something like this can be politicized, and, apparently, it has to do with skin color, because there’s really no other explanation.
If I didn’t know any better I’d say that Hussein wants to encourage an ebola epidemic on American soil.
idiotic
Wow...Invoking "God's work" huh? Well, anyone dedicated to doing the Lord's work would have absolutely NO problem coming back and staying away from the rest of us for a month or longer, NONE; after all, they would want to protect God's children on the homefront
It is plain to see, the community organizer has no clue what he or his administration is doing. On the one hand, he evoked science and facts driving decisions, on the other God. His party's platform is strictly atheist using God only in party politics. And there are suckers lined up around the block to vote for dem's Nov 4.
Kaci Hitchox and her new Political Wings
Does he realize that Governors Christie and Cuomo are Democrats, too?
He doesn’t care what anyone thinks or who he hurts. He is one evil bastard.
Unsurprisingly, Barry’s talking points are the same as the surly ebola nurse in Maine. Barry and the Democrat Party’s pro-ebola platform looks like a real winner for election day!
his plan is to use ebola to weaken the economy with ebola fear and erase our borders totally
We simply must allow any and all travel from the hot zone with no restrictions no matter who it is and no matter how many people here in the US get sick.
We can’t risk medical volunteers feelings being hurt.
It’s also like racist and stuff.
One looks just like the other. What does that tell you?
Was everyone taking 10 steps back and looking up to see if lightning was going to strike? Seriously, I wonder if there has ever been one single solitary thing that the Obungler has ever done right?
Based on science and fact.LOL
I haven’t seen him do much about this situation that isn’t contradictory and less than factual.
CDC Tommy said that it was not appropriate for a health care worker to travel using public transportation. Seems to me that the states are just trying to effectively implement that.
Maybe he’s against efficiency or jealous that the Governors are more competent the he and the Feds?
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