They need to fire Freidan.
In fact, I predict they are going to fire him.
Who replaces him is going to indicate a couple of things:
1. The conspiracy theorists believe this may be the pretense Obama needs in order to suspend an election. If there is any truth to that, the replacement will be a former general - someone from USAMRIID or something like that. The response to the outbreak will become military, and you’ll see close coordination with local PD’s who are already outfitted for this sort of thing.
2. Another flunky will replace him, which will reinforce Hanlon’s razor: ‘Don’t ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.’
Either way, the response will be botched, and many will end up dying because of it. It’s just math - you look at how many health workers are dropping and the viral load necessary for infection and the absolute LACK of medical screening at the borders and it adds up to this thing doing serious damage.
I look at how the medical and government responded to the H1N1 outbreak in Hong Kong a few years back. They were at general quarters. I look at the response to something that has demonstrated itself as a world-killer and am flabbergasted. No real response whatsoever. MD’s are in huge denial.
Even all the vaunted US arrogance and prejudices haven’t kicked in yet - you’d think that any nurse or doc looking at a sick black man with an accent in the waiting room would at least take some sort of extra precaution.
“Hey, I didn’t see you put on a mask and gloves treating that tall Norwegian guy a few minutes earlier! Black guy from another country walks in with a fever and sneezing and you put on the gown, mask, and gloves? Racist much?”
ISIL isn’t Islamic, all Catholic priests are pedophiles, and the chances of a black man from Liberia presenting a fever giving you Ebola is ‘extremely remote’.
Sounds basically like us tax paying americans had our throats slit with either Occam’s razor or Hanlon’s razor. Either way, walking dead.
Friedan is their boy.
He’s expendable, of course, and if any HCWs in Dallas get sick, he WILL be fired. But he’s kept the troops on message so far, and said only what he’s been told to say, so if it does not break out, he’s survivable.