A Bowla Ebola Idiocy

1413172032725_wps_25_NBC_s_chief_medial_corresOn Monday, The Daily Mail reported that NBC’s chief medical correspondent, Nancy Snyderman, had a hankering for a bowl of soup from Peasant Grill in Hopewell Boro, New Jersey. So she hopped in her car with one of her crewmembers and headed over to the Grill. When she got to the restaurant, she had her crewmember run inside, grab the soup, and run back out.

There was only one problem: Both Snyderman and her crewmember were under mandatory quarantine for 21 days. That quarantine was a result of their journey to Liberia to cover the Ebola outbreak, a journey during which cameraman Ashoka Mukpo contracted the disease. The authorities made the quarantine mandatory after another of the crewmembers violated a voluntary quarantine last week.

It’s one thing for Liberian citizen Thomas Eric Duncan to carry around an Ebola-ridden woman, get on an airplane to Dallas, walk into a hospital with symptoms, and then walk out again. Such behavior can be attributed, at least in part, to ignorance. It’s another thing entirely for a highly educated medical professional to endanger those around her for some miso.

But that’s the world of the media, where the proper response to the possibility of contracting Ebola is, “Don’t you know who I am?” Double standards abound here; media members lather Americans into a frenzy over the threat of a disease that has, to date, claimed a grand total of one life in the United States. Then they go out for lunch in public after being told that they could be carrying the virus.

The Snyderman story is truly part of a broader egocentrism in the media. The media didn’t give one whit about the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative non-profit applicants — but they went absolutely batty over the Department of Justice targeting reporters.

The media don’t seem to care very much about demands for transparency from the Obama administration by the American public — but they’re fighting mad about the Obama administration’s refusal to let them photograph him golfing. After all, it’s one thing for normal Americans to get stiffed, and quite another for our betters to feel the effects of government’s heavy hand.

The gap between the media elite and the general population has a deleterious impact on America’s political future. Media members seem to have no problem with incompetent government overreach so long as they prosper, which is why so few media members worry over Democratic proposals to limit First Amendment press freedoms to government-designated “journalists.”

The American people suffer thanks to this elitism. The days of the adversarial media are ending — most investigative journalism now falls to the blogosphere or the foreign press. The corrupt relationship between media and government means that Americans don’t find out about overreach and incompetence until far too late for them to do anything about it.

And so the gap grows. No wonder Snyderman went for soup while under quarantine. After all, it’s not like all those other customers work for NBC, or anything.

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  • truebearing

    She should be arrested and put in solitary confinement for her narcissistic indifference to the well-being of others. What a pathetic display of right-of-entitlement.

    If anyone wonders what will make Ebola hard to stop in this country, it is brazen arrogance and stupidity like that displayed by Snyderman. Selfishness is not a good survival strategy.

    • Vel_Non

      Snyderman’s arrogance and elitism may well have risen to the level of criminal liability and this possibility should be investigated and pursued, if for no other reason than to set the bar for conduct to a public health responsive and responsible level, most especially in light of the still uncertain rates infectivity and modes of transmissibility of Ebola virus disease and its 70% mortality rate.

      In addition, the various state medical boards should take notice and action.

      Certainly at this juncture in time with respect to the state of Ebola virus epidemiology, with so much demonstrated ignorance coupled with deliberate and intended obfuscation by public health officials who are charged with the duty to protect the American public, high profile and highly visible figures who knowingly flout quarantine and other restrictions on their conduct should be held fully and zealously accountable for their irresponsible actions.

      • Michael Garfinkel

        Ebola is for the little people.

        • ata777

          well said

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          Quarantine is for the little people.

          • herb benty

            Go back to your Obama/Islam hole.

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    • cree

      And the crew member?- is working up the elitist ladder by kissing Snyderman’s —.

    • Pericles

      Which is more dreadful? Narcissism or Ebola? Before Ebola there was Obama. Which is worse I wonder?

      • JB Ziggy Zoggy

        Ebola is a higher life form than Obama.

    • Sheik Yerbouti

      It could be interesting to see so many self-interested fools die off for that very reason.

  • I_Am_Me

    We’ll just continue this graceful slide from elitism to soft fascism to totalitarianism. Nice and slow. No one will notice a thing. Utopia awaits our arrival.

  • sportyone

    A bit of overreaching there on the part of Snyderman. If only she had overreached a little further and dropped into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and shared her takeout with the first family. Ebola anyone?

    • putthehammerdown

      “This stuff is really good, and healthy too. Here Michelle,… try some. Use my spoon, I wiped it off, just for you………..”

  • Debbie G

    Hey Snyderman: “No soup for you!”

    • American Human

      “Come back 21 days!”

  • Pete

    I have seen a liberal poster, Cowsome Loneboy, take another poster to task for saying that the NBC reporter was “at” the restaurant.

    They argued that “at” the restaurant colloquially means “in” the restaurant, so the conservative poster was full of it.

    From Middle English at, from Old English æt (“at, near, by, toward”)
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/at#English

    Point is the liberals can disobey good sense, the law, or common decency. This reporter (& the people of NBC) is one of them, so they have circled the wagons. She can do no wrong for which they give her the mildest rebuke.

    • Nadzieja Batki

      If anyone acquires Ebola because of her stupidity will Snyderman be arrested for murder.
      The NBC people are actually really really really scared.

      • SCREW SOCIALISM

        Send the escaped nancy snyderman to the NY Times offices for an in person interview.

      • Pete

        If the acquire ebola due to her willful actions, they might not die from the disease.

        In that case she could be charge with assault.

      • tagalog

        I wish I could believe that you’re right, but I doubt it. My money says the editorial staff at NBC are wondering what all the flap is about.

    • Gee

      So just one question – how can you get your order at a restaurant and pay for it without going into the restaurant? This I assume because it is not a fast food joint with a drive up window.

      • Pete

        Some friend or family member, who was in close contact with her probably went in.

        So if she is infected, then her friends or family would have a good chance to be infected. They went into the restaurant and of course they could keep the chain of infection going.

        So Nancy Snyderman is a pure as the wind driven snow. She is not directly infecting people at the restaurant, so why blame her? She is blameless in liberal eyes.

  • putthehammerdown

    Where is an arrest for public endangerment or violating a public health confinement order ?
    Where is any real “outrage” at all from Nancy’s peers ?
    Each and every time America hears of crap like this, it should also remember this truism :
    “The signs are for ‘them’ ,…not for me……..”.

  • Cappy1437

    She endangered others without giving it a second thought. She should be fired from her job. Americans are furious.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      Fired and quarantined.

  • SCREW SOCIALISM

    She must have Ebola because it has affected her thinking and sense of entitlement.

    • MLCBLOG

      She was already that way.

  • Vel_Non

    More “Ebola Idiocy” – and lack of government control and lack of responsibility

    A second Texas Health Resources Presbyterian Dallas nurse named Amber Joy Vinson, who had been caring for known Ebola-infected patients has been diagnosed with Ebola.

    This nurse flew twice between Cleveland, OH and Dallas/Fort Worth.

    Those at THR Presbyterian Dallas and elsewhere who have come in contact with known Ebola infected patients – and especially those who care for them in specialized intensive care units – should be prevented from traveling via mass transportation, including especially via air transportation, trains and buses.

    This nurse’s decision to fly twice is the height of lack of responsibility and good sense.

    The CDC, the FAA, state and local officials MUST immediately prevent such travel.

    Additional hundreds of persons who took either of those Frontier Airline flights will now have to be monitored for Ebola.

    In addition, the Army is sending 500 troops based at Fort Hood, Texas to endemic Ebola areas in Africa.

    When will this insanity stop? Will it stop before it becomes the death of us all?

    • I_Am_Me

      At this point, I wouldn’t rule out that this is being done on purpose to create a panic for Obama to leverage.

      • keyesforpres

        Absolutely. O wants to kill off white America and all Christians. He’s doing this on purpose.

        • truebearing

          It may well be. No evil is too evil for Obama.

    • truebearing

      It is insanity, by any definition. Now there are well respected infectious disease experts from Minnesota that have publicly stated that Ebola is transmitted through the air — something the pathetic CDC assured us couldn’t happen.

      http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/15/CIDRAP-Director-Airborne-Ebola-Single-Greatest-Concern-of-My-Career

      There are doctors in Wisconsin that have been saying the same thing and cautioning the CDC not to assume Ebola hasn’t mutated, which it clearly already has, since this type isn’t the original Ebola.

      I discussed the Ebola issue with an expert from Wisconsin’s Department of Health and it is clear that they are worried about all of the police officers, EMTs, staff at small hospitals and clinics, etc. that won’t be trained or have the equipment to deal with infected people.

      It turns out that those of us who were being catagorized as “overreactive” were correct in saying positive pressure masks were essential to preventing the spread of Ebola. It is transmitting via the air which makes it extremely dangerous. The politically obsessed fools on the Left, with their political appointees in the CDC, etc. have set up a potential pandemic in America.

      • Vel_Non

        Whether or not mutated, perhaps resulting in increasing virulence both with respect to ease of transmission and modes of transmission (“transmissibility”) and rate of infection, once transmission of infectious, virus-laden particles have been transmitted, it is manifestly clear that an infected person is infected from Day 1 – the so-called “incubation period” from Day 1 to the infection’s becoming clinically overt is variable – and that under appropriate circumstances, the infection can be transmitted to others, either immediately or via infected materials with which a second person can come into contact, including via the respiratory route absent adequate protection, such as “positive pressure” masks and appropriately particle size trapping filters to trap this nominally 80nm negative-sense RNA virus.

        The CDC officials and others have been talking through their hats and out of both sides of their mouths and their measures to date, both against reservoirs of infection and their transmission to people, have proven to be woefully inadequate and their malfeasance will result in a Fibonacci Series of infections their associated 70% mortality rate.

      • keyesforpres

        It is what the Left wants.

      • Pete

        There are at least 5 types. So what gives you the slightest hint it may mutate?

        Now they ADMIT there is a Sudan subtype in Uganda. It was in the news in the last 3 days.

        Five species are known, and four of these cause Ebola virus disease (EVD) in humans, a type of hemorrhagic fever having a very high case fatality rate”

        Bundibugyo ebolavirus

      • Debbie G

        I work in a Cleveland hospital. A few hours ago, we received our directives on Ebola. Nowhere is it mentioned that it is transmitted through the air. If the hospitals are taking their cue from the CDC, we’re screwed.

    • Pete

      Mutated?

      Bundibugyo ebolavirus
      Reston ebolavirus
      Sudan ebolavirus
      Taï Forest ebolavirus
      Zaire ebolavirus

  • Richard Gearon

    People, like this dumb broad, think that NO laws apply to them, whether those laws are civil, criminal, moral or, even, physical, as in the law of GRAVITY. They probably think that, if it wasn’t for SOMEBODY, they could FLY LIKE BIRDS.

  • herb benty

    The trumpeted “intelligence” of the Left is fake. Or, the Lefts arrogance trumps common sense. One or the other.I trust a farmer more than a PhD anyway. We must stop this “must have a degree” nonsense.

    • MrUniteUs1

      Political affiliation, skin tone, religion, gender, or state of origin,
      are irrelevant.These two individuals made a bad decision.

      • herb benty

        Democrats are a walking, “bad decision”.

  • herb benty

    Leftists are wimps, and want to wimpify all American kids, according to a guy named Karl Marx.

  • MrUniteUs1

    For once I agree with Shapiro. A doctor especially one who witnessed the devastation of Ebola first hand in Liberia should be extra careful.

    • truebearing

      Congratulations. For once you’re right.

    • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

      You’re a bad Leftist – you’re putting truth, common sense, decency, and personal responsibility above your dedication to achieving social justice at any cost, including human lives, which means supporting your fellow Leftists no matter what they do.

      We may make a Conservative out of you yet!

      • MrUniteUs1

        NOOOO!

        • keyesforpres

          I bet you become a Frederick Douglass Republican!

  • tagalog

    Why are we surprised that elite folks like Nancy Snyderman think that ordinary systems of cause-and-effect, systems of social regard for the other, don’t apply to them?

    We heard the head of the CDC tells us that AS A NATION, we are so sanitary and our health system so advanced compared to the nations of West Africa, that Ebola is not something that Americans should worry about.

    Our elites think that we are exempt from the ordinary consequences of human action. I wouldn’t mind them being that stupid, except they are in charge and their decisions affect the rest of us non-elite types.

    • Pete

      Please check the date on the article.

      http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2012/07/30/ebola-resurfaces-in-uganda-history-and-analyses-of-ugandan-ebola/

      Isn’t there oil in Western Uganda? About the time that the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) became news (It was always news; it is a matter of people wanting to take notice of it), we learned that a few companies were interested in oil exploration in Uganda.

      So were they interested in a wretched monsters killing Africans or were they more interested in safely extracting the oil.

      Was Obama’s decision to send 100 troops to Uganda R2P or was he told? It is all very conspiratorial I know. But the question has to be asked because there is a coincidence.

      SO if Kony is holed up, but the region is not safe due to HIV and ebola, what would an oligarchs next move be? If I went to GodLikeProductions website I could have a field day. I might even hit the truith

    • Sheik Yerbouti

      Leftists are like this as well. The only form of “Cause and effect” they recognize is when something goes their way. Otherwise, the cause is surely the fault of someone and they do their best to attach it to anyone that fits the profile (a word they refuse to use).

      This twisting of cause and effect is something leftist blacks have fully embraced. They have improved the process considerably by having only 1 enemy that everything can be blamed for, white people!

  • Vel_Non

    While the CDC and Texas State Health Services are inching ever closer to more intense surveillance and forms of segregation of Ebola care team members, and countries most recently including France restricting flights from endemic Ebola regions, these organizations have failed the public they are commissioned to protect and their failures are becoming increasingly manifest, coupled with the abject lack of responsibility of professionals who should know better and who should be held to a higher standard, leading to an expected burgeoning in the number of Ebola-infected persons.

    It is clear that the officially advanced means of Ebola transmission are flawed and that the personal protective gear deployed to prevent transmission to health workers and to first responders and EMS personnel is inadequate and flawed.

    Whether these failures are intended and deliberate or whether they amount so
    what can be called criminal negligence insofar as the reasonable product
    of their actions or inaction carries a substantial likelihood of harm to the public, while difficult to assess and to locate it cannot be discounted out of hand.

    I shudder to think that officials are not only misguided by are acting purposefully and with political motivation.

    Mike Rawlings, the Mayor of Dallas with zero medical and zero epidemiology
    training and experience, has very recently announced that Ebola must be
    fought “person by person”. This is deeply flawed and it typifies the prevailing madness embodied in the failure to take strong epidemiologic measures on a population-wide scale, including enforced quarantines, restrictions on activities of healthcare workers and especially including restrictions on their travel via mass transportation and measures to effectively restrict travel to and from Ebola endemic areas.

    In at least one study (2005), dogs have been demonstrated to be repositories of Ebola virus. There is little if any data regarding incubation periods in dogs and to how and to what extent they can become vectors for human infection. There should be official, mandated procedures to be followed regarding the handling of Ebola-exposed animals.

    An Ebola-infected person has Ebola virus in that person’s system from the day of infection – and this virus potentially can be transmitted from day 1 of infection. Virus particles can be detected via standard laboratory analysis including several varieties of PCR many days before the disease becomes clinically manifest after “incubation” – the patient has been infected all along.

    As a result, Ebola healthcare workers should be subject to frequent
    PCR-type analyses before their disease becomes clinically manifest so that they can be isolated and treated earlier and so that others can be protected from them.

    Taken together, whether due to ignorance and arrogance or whether purposeful, the general population – and Ebola healthcare providers and their contacts more especially – are at grave risk due to flawed and grievously wanting public health policies and woefully inadequate protective measures.

    • truebearing

      Obama has ruled this country like a Banana Republic. He wanted America to become a Third World nation. Now he has imported Africa’s deadliest export. My guess is that he sees this as social justice.

  • okokok

    lol..put a fence around Texas; we are not a third world country; if they don’t want government. go to Somalia…

  • Patriotliz

    The story is not only that Snyderman broke quarantine, the story is that there IS a quarantine for Americans coming from the African Hot Zones but NOT for the average asymptomatic African from those same areas, e.g., Duncan.

  • NJK

    I hope she has it.

  • Pericles

    “And so the gap grows. No wonder Snyderman went for soup while under
    quarantine. After all, it’s not like all those other customers work for
    NBC, or anything.”

    I wonder, did she share her cup of soup with anyone? And, are they being monitored as well? But the CDC and Obama tell us there’s nothing to worry about. It’s all under control. Really?

  • Dan Knight

    Great analysis, Ben. Spot on. From experience with MSM reporters reporting my business (twice), I’d put them all somewhere between rank amateurs and outright liars. They are ignorant, arrogant, and as to the plight of working people or ordinary people of any class, they are apathetic. And that’s before reaching their built-in tolerance for socialism, fascism, totalitarianism, Marxism, and any other hateful, violent, dangerous ideology. They are products of ‘The Struggle’ to overcome goodness and decency in search of perfection and Utopia-For-The-Elite. … I’ve met a few who ‘woke’ up, but … they are no longer employed by the MSM either.