The FICTIONAL CDC would have a director like Tommy Lee Jones saying something like:
"I want the apartment area sealed off. Hazmat suits only. Disinfect immediately. Close all the schools those kids living in that apartment attended. Go thru the airlines list and contact and test everyone aboard the flights that Duncan was on. Oh, and no more passengers from ebola infected West African nations allowed to board any flights coming to this country. I want this done and I want it done like YESTERDAY!"
I called my governor to tell him to call up state resources to combat the disease at airports and even borders with other states.
I told him to dare the feds interfere with us. Will make Bundy’s Ranch look like a small event if feds threaten us TExans.
Liberalism is a disease. It destroys the mind.
We need to immunize our children to make sure they are not infected.
ebola has been politicized because it is affecting mostly Africans, and we are supposed to be guilty and bring the disease into the USA to make everything ‘fair’.
There’s an aspect of this botched response that hasn’t gotten enough attention, IMO.
That’s the effect of excessive regulation inhibiting appropriate response.
There was a several day delay in decontaminating the buildings, sidewalks, etc. that may have been contaminated. This was because nobody had the proper licensing to go in and do the necessary work.
I understand the need for proper training and procedures, but not doing what needs to be done until all the paperwork has worked its way through the system is just insane.
This article is so poorly written that I found it unreadable.
*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!
Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!
Bring Out Your Dead
We’re gonna need 
a bigger cart!
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The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Great point! In real life the director of the cdc says: "Call the White House and ask him how they want us to handle this politically...what spin does he want us to put on it?"
WHOs laughing now?
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The CDC has been politicized, just like everything else the Kenyan Commie has had a hand in. I believe he wants an outbreak in order to quarantine the state (Texas) prior to the mid-term elections. I believe he would try anything to stop or postpone elections nationwide. It’s way past time to stop giving him a pass based on the color of his skin. Make him accountable for his actions. His deck of race cards is full of Jokers. Time to IMPEACH!
“...and get me one of them doughnuts with the sprinkles on it!”
The real CDC assesses risk, and uses scientific data to determine the best response. It is not the pseudo-military organization portrayed in movies.
Politically, I think it would be terrible if the CDC were to come out and tell everyone that Ebola is going to kill us all and we better all start panicking and emptying the store shelves of bleach. If the CDC were to exaggerate the threat of Ebola, and nothing were to happen, then no one would believe anything else the CDC has to say about the infectious diseases that are real problems. And *that* would be a disaster.
There are many contagious diseases that kill thousands of people right here in the US. Try reading the CDC’s MMWR, and look at the monthly summaries of select infectious diseases. If only people would get worked up about the common killers, instead of some exotic disease that won’t go anywhere.
The other thing we don’t have is a Surgeon General. Obama’s former politicized appointments have all washed out after doing or saying some stupid thing or another, and have all been nobodies anyway.
There’s currently yet another nominee before the Senate, and the libs are blaming the NRA for the fact that he doesn’t have approval! This one is apparently convinced that the job of the Surgeon General is to implement Obama’s anti-gun policies rather than to deal with verifiable health matters. That said, he obviously doesn’t have the approval of enough Senate Dems, either, so he obviously has failed to impress and has come across as what everybody around Obama is, purely political.
Meanwhile, Ebola is being dealt with by a chain of fools (highly politicized fools, of course).
I don’t think the response is purposely piss poor. All our problems have been miraculously solved by Obama waving his magical scepter, declaring the problems solved, or he will have a conversation on a listening tour. BLAMMO, the problem is solved and we never hear it again. The feds are so use to that. Obama has declared Ebola will not come to our shores and voila, it won’t come to our shores. And if it came to our shores through Liberian visitors, the problem will be solved by having a conversation with someone. And when people start dying, Obama will not be able to comment on an ongoing investigation in to how the republican shut down, sequestration, and global warming are to blame. And dude, that was like last week.
Quarantine Africa. No flights in or out.
Quarantine the occupants of the Dallas infected house in a medical quarantine facility.
Burn the Dallas Ebola infected house to the ground.
Hose down the yard, sidewalk and driveway of the infected house with lye and chlorine bleach.
Incinerate the bodies of anyone dying from Ebola.
Obama will find someone to throw under the bus when we are hip deep in dead bodies. It’s the Chicago way.
Someone should make a “spinning Ebola” poster. The virus looks like thread, or yarn.
It is going to get super expensive for the airlines to continue to provide transportation from heavily ebola infected Nations. They will have to sanitize and decommission planes when they transport an ebola zombie. In the US they could be sued for bringing the disease (not taking proper precautions) into neighborhoods. I hope someone sues American Airlines for bring Ebola into Dallas.
It is careless politics that has the government not demanding protection; but it is careless business practices for airlines not do it on their own. Like only fly passengers who have been competently cleared of having the disease or decide that continuing flights from ebolaland is an economically unviable business practice. Lawsuits for damages would make that activity economically unviable.
The talking head they keep trotting out assures us all is well and was handled great.
Yet we know the ER staff sent Patient Ground Zero back home the first time he went to the ER. “Go home it’s just a cold” or somesuch great medical genius pronouncement was made.
Oh,yeah. Nothing to worry about. The professionals are at work from the ER to the CDC.
And make sure to stress that it cannot be easily contracted.
Right. Sure. Move along, nothing to worry about.
Instead of “would you like the blue pill or the red pill”, in O’Bola’s Regime it is “would you like ebola or a quick beheading”.
O’Bola and his entire regime from top to scummy bottom should rot in prison, followed by their eventual burning in hell, for what they’ve done to America.
Not that I’m bitter or anything.