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CDC: If We Won’t Let People with Ebola into America, then Ebola Wins
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| 10/05/2014
| Daniel Greenfield
Posted on 10/05/2014 6:10:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Under an Open Borders mandate from Obama, the CDC has to keep finding increasingly ridiculous reasons for why letting people with Ebola into America is a good idea.
Dr. Thomas Frieden, directorof the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the federal government is looking at different safety-related suggestions from Capitol Hill and beyond, but he suggested the key is to control the deadly virus where it started overseas, not limiting entry to the United States.
Though we might wish we can seal ourselves off from the world, there are Americans who have the right of return and many other people that have the right to enter this country, Frieden said at a press conference Saturday. We’re not going to be able to get to zero risk no matter what we do unless we control the outbreak in West Africa.
Frieden went on to say that limiting entry at the borders could actually put Americans at greater risk.
“In terms of the entry process, we really need to be clear that we don’t inadvertently increase the risk to people in this country by making it harder for us to respond to the needs in those countries, by making it harder to get assistance in and therefore those outbreaks would become worse, go on longer, and paradoxically, something that we did to try and protect ourselves might actually increase our risk,” Frieden said.
If we don’t let people with Ebola into America, we’ll be endangering Americans. And then Ebola wins. The only way to defeat Ebola is by supplying antibodies to more moderate diseases. Like AIDS. And the Bubonic Plague.
Taking in Americans with Ebola under quarantine is one thing. Taking in anyone else covered by “other people” is another.
Zero risk is a strawman. Since zero risk is never attainable, we should never do anything. Why even have airport security? We can’t achieve zero risk anyway. Same goes for airbags and brakes.
It’s the “seal ourselves off from the world” part that the Open Borders crowd really hates. Quarantine does actually stop disease outbreaks. Open borders spreads disease. But we’re in a new “settled science” phase in which spreading a disease is the way to beat it.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cdc; ebola; election; evil; lie; obama; obola; planned; traitor
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To: SeekAndFind
There are no words for this degree of idiocy.
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posted on
10/05/2014 6:40:36 PM PDT
by
The Duke
To: SeekAndFind
Talk about convoluted. Sheesh.
42
posted on
10/05/2014 6:41:38 PM PDT
by
stilloftyhenight
(...staying home isn't an option.)
To: Lou L
And just out of curiosity, where the hell is Congress with oversight? I realize Boehner and company have been in "election mode" since 2013, but there may not be ANY elections if an outbreak occurs.
THIS. Their own elections are more important than preventing a nationwide epidemic? If there was any doubt that they are a collective glob of self-obsessed, worthless driftwood it should be erased by their silence at this time.
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posted on
10/05/2014 6:41:58 PM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: SeekAndFind
WTF is this moron talking about?
44
posted on
10/05/2014 6:43:46 PM PDT
by
tennmountainman
(True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
To: The Duke
This goon is a PC bureaucrat who hates American Citizens. What an utter idiot.
45
posted on
10/05/2014 6:44:51 PM PDT
by
ogen hal
(First amendment or reeducation camp)
To: SeekAndFind
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to be Ebola-free"
46
posted on
10/05/2014 6:45:10 PM PDT
by
Sooth2222
("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
To: SeekAndFind
CDC is run by affirmative action retards.
47
posted on
10/05/2014 6:46:33 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.)
To: SeekAndFind
48
posted on
10/05/2014 6:47:37 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He would do nothing differently. He would be as destructive as Obama has been.
49
posted on
10/05/2014 6:48:03 PM PDT
by
abclily
To: Politicalkiddo
Every single government agency is dangerous and corrupt. Well, they're all completely run and staffed by RATs, what do you expect.
50
posted on
10/05/2014 6:50:37 PM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
To: SeekAndFind
Were not going to be able to get to zero risk no matter what we do unless we control the outbreak in West Africa.Why does this sound so similar to the excuses about a border fence?
To: ROCKLOBSTER
I can’t argue with you there.
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posted on
10/05/2014 6:52:16 PM PDT
by
Politicalkiddo
(Power always thinks.. that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. -John Adams)
To: SeekAndFind
The CDC gets its instructions from the White House and the White House gets its instructions from the CDC.
53
posted on
10/05/2014 6:53:40 PM PDT
by
HandyDandy
(Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
To: Georgia Girl 2
Well, let them take a slow boat to anywhere else first, then continue with a slow cruise to a modern day Ellis Island. If they spend 2 months on the ship, with no cases, then maybe they could return, if they pass a 72 hour Ebola test.
54
posted on
10/05/2014 6:54:12 PM PDT
by
greeneyes
(Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
To: laplata
Rope,lots and lots of rope.
55
posted on
10/05/2014 7:06:34 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: SeekAndFind
Working together to eliminate Americans
To: SeekAndFind; John Semmens
i keep looking for john Semmens name... but even John would be hard pressed to top this
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posted on
10/05/2014 7:10:12 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: SeekAndFind
Liberals belief in open borders makes as much sense as their belief in climate change.
Keep the faith!
58
posted on
10/05/2014 7:10:37 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: KoRn
If/when SHTF, it will be open season.
59
posted on
10/05/2014 7:12:04 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
10/05/2014 7:28:38 PM PDT
by
4Liberty
(Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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