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CDC: If We Won’t Let People with Ebola into America, then Ebola Wins
Frontpage Mag ^ | 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.


41 posted on 10/05/2014 6:40:36 PM PDT by The Duke
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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.)
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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.
43 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...)
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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!)
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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)
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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)
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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.)
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To: SeekAndFind

48 posted on 10/05/2014 6:47:37 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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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
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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.)
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To: SeekAndFind
“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.”

Why does this sound so similar to the excuses about a border fence?

51 posted on 10/05/2014 6:50:53 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I can’t argue with you there.


52 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)
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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.)
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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.)
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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)
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To: SeekAndFind

Working together to eliminate Americans


56 posted on 10/05/2014 7:07:34 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind; John Semmens
i keep looking for john Semmens name... but even John would be hard pressed to top this
57 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)
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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)
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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.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just pure Lunacy.


60 posted on 10/05/2014 7:28:38 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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