President Ebola

Obama_Ebola_P1k_t618In 2009, Obama lifted the ban on AIDS cases entering the United States. Describing HIV as “a virus that has touched lives,” he announced that he was ending a ban based on “fear rather than fact.”

Obama didn’t specify what new facts about AIDS had been discovered that made it no longer infectious or a threat to public health. Instead he just had the CDC remove HIV from the list of “communicable diseases of public health significance.” Was HIV no longer of “public health significance”? The amount of money being lavished on it indicated otherwise. Was it then suddenly no longer communicable?

The CDC awkwardly tried to explain why syphilis, gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases were still on the list, but HIV wasn’t. The answer could be summed as “because Obama said so.” The CDC did promise to “consider other diseases, including sexually transmitted diseases, for scientific review.” But most STDs don’t have their own billion-dollar lobby that can make or break politicians.

In a cage match between public health and politically correct cash, the winner was AIDS. And so the ban was lifted and immigrants no longer had to be tested for HIV.

But Obama was not a one-disease politician. He was also open to being touched by other viruses. The same year that his CDC decided that AIDS was no longer a communicable disease, Bush era quarantine regs were also scrapped.  The regs had been part of an Avian Flu response that Senator Obama had demanded when he was cynically maneuvering for political advantage. But that was then. This is now.

In a bid for amnesty, Obama opened the southern border and flooded America with dangerous diseases.

The commitment to open borders had clear viral consequences. Border agents have already come down with antibiotic resistant infections carried by illegal aliens and in some cases passed these diseases on to their children. Also along for the ride was Swine Flu, a potentially fatal and communicable disease.

Obama had declared Swine Flu a “national emergency” around the same time that he was putting out the welcome mat for AIDS. But in his push for amnesty, he also welcomed Swine Flu into the country.

And that was just the beginning.

An Enterovirus D68 outbreak, that has now claimed the life of an American child, followed. The death took place in New Jersey, which has one of the highest rates of unaccompanied alien minor placements and possibly the highest rate when accounting for territorial size. Some D68 cases appeared to be linked to a mysterious condition in Colorado causing paralysis and spinal cord abnormalities in children.

As horrifying as these public health crises caused by Obama’s open borders policy are, the real nightmare may still be coming.

Even though Ebola doesn’t have its own lobby yet, it’s getting the AIDS treatment. The White House has been firm about rejecting any Ebola travel ban. Instead arriving visitors from Ebolaland are getting flyers at airports telling them to report any symptoms to their doctor. The CDC is claiming that the source screenings, which can be fooled by an Ebola carrier taking Advil, are good enough.

And if not, well, the Democratic Party’s voters have to come from somewhere. Who cares if they happen to be vomiting up blood while they’re casting their vote?

If AIDS can magically stop being a “communicable disease of public health significance,” why not Ebola? Why not any and every epidemic that might potentially keep a future Democrat out of Chicago?

As with AIDS, Obama is taking the line that Ebola has to be stopped at its source in Africa and that keeping the infected out of America will somehow interfere with this mission. It’s the sort of reasoning that makes a lot of sense to someone who views borders and nations as outdated relics. It doesn’t, however, make much sense to most Americans who still think there is such a thing as the United States.

The media, which can stir up a mass panic over a fly in a restaurant, is warning of “Ebola-phobia” and assuring the country that there’s no reason to fear an outbreak. Ebola isn’t really all that contagious, say all the same media outlets which have been claiming that AIDS and leprosy aren’t all that contagious. But then again no disease carried by Democratic Party voters can be considered truly contagious.

Except maybe leftism.

Now that we know that we don’t have to worry, it’s only a question of which outbreak we don’t have to worry about first.

Due to Obama’s policies, we have so many contagious and deadly diseases waiting in line to infect Americans that it’s not clear which outbreak we should be worrying about the least. Should we be getting unready for an Ebola outbreak, a Swine Flu outbreak or an Enterovirus B68 outbreak?

But that’s what happens when the border security of a nation vanishes into thin air.

ISIS fighters who returned to the United States were allowed in. Illegal aliens with every possible disease were allowed in. Any other course of action would be Islamophobia and Ebolaphobia.

ObamaCare has a menu of exotic disease outbreaks to cope with. Even as Ebola enriches our airports, Virginia has become “Ground Zero” for Chagas disease which kills 11,000 people a year, a mysterious paralyzing virus is spreading across Colorado and the border patrol even caught a case of leprosy.

Where does one go to find leprosy in the age of Obama? New York City. While the United States is overwhelmed with foreign leprosy cases, it is now possible to be born in New York City and live your entire life there and still come down with leprosy because it’s become an endemic disease. Leprosy cases really took off after Ted Kennedy’s Immigration and Nationality Act did to public health what he had done to Mary Jo Kopechne. The top source countries for the disease are Mexico, Vietnam and Cuba.

So much for socialized medicine.

Open borders means a constantly shifting menu of diseases and terrorist threats that never go away because the door is open. It’s as open to an Ebola patient as it is to an ISIS Jihadist. AIDS is as welcome as the next Anwar Al-Awlaki. They are all part of the great multicultural future of the Democratic Party in which Islamic terrorists and Third World diseases battle it out for the opportunity to destroy America.

If an Ebola outbreak does happen, this disastrous administration and its leader may go down in history as President Ebola. But even if it doesn’t, there’s always President Swine Flu or President B68.

And there are always the classics. Three years after Obama took down the HIV travel ban, foreign-born Latinos AIDS cases in New York had risen to 31%. There’s a lot of talk about the importance of spreading awareness of the disease, but we could start by spreading awareness of the fact that allowing people with infectious diseases into the United States has deadly consequences.

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  • cheechakos

    5 children that had E 68 had died but the government isn’t counting 4 of the deaths as official 68′s because the children had other complications such as asthma.

    I’ve been posting stories about contagious diseases brought in by illegals for 4 years. A couple of bubonic plague cases have been attributed to them also.
    4 states now have outbreaks of hoof and mouth. E 68 is in 43 states so it’s basically an epidemic.
    This could turn into a perfect storm of epidemics and death.

    And our healthcare system is damaged from Obama and will easily be overwhelmed by a wide spread epidemic of a deadly disease.
    Heck CA is out of water and sitting with tens of millions of illegals sucking up what little they have.

    Then Barry will blame it all on globull warming while Soros chortles with glee reliving the thrilling mass deaths of his youth.

    • Daniel_Greenfield

      “5 children that had E 68 had died but the government isn’t counting 4 of the deaths as official 68′s because the children had other complications such as asthma.”

      Interesting

  • I_Am_Me

    President Farce.

    • camp7

      You’re just being polite.

      • I_Am_Me

        I don’t need an IRS audit.

        • camp7

          Too funny, but we do presume.

  • Biff Henderson

    America is afflicted with a diseased mind running clinical trials. The flesh is infected and left to rot – with a nest of maggots to clean out the wound while Doctor Feel Good breaks for a round of golf. The Doctor feels good and it’s infectious. More, they all want more of the magical cure. He’s going on vacation and there’s sit-coms to digest but after that, we’ll see..

  • wileyvet

    “Virginia has become “Ground Zero” for Chagas disease which kills 11,000 people a year”. Great, I leave in 5 days for a 2 week vacation in Virginia. When I hit my third airport in Toronto before entering the US, you know I will need to produce a valid passport and answer a list of questions to be allowed through the door. If I were to show any sign of illness I could be refused entry from Canada. However if I was a diseased illegal Hispanic from south of the border, Obama would escort me to a taxpayer funded shelter and I could get welfare and a driver’s license. Or if I was coming from an Ebola country no problem. This is insanity man.
    With all this going on Obama had the effrontery to give a speech to DREAMERS threatening to bypass the Congress, at the same time demeaning the House members, and threatening unilateral executive action. The man must be removed, NOW!

  • Anne Courtney

    Obama and his kind will soon be telling people that anxiety over Ebola is Ebolaphobia and is worse than the disease itself on account of it being a thought crime ranking with racism,Islamophobia and homophobia.

  • truebearing

    An excellent and thorough breakdown of the biological consequences of open borders. This should be included in the opening statements when Obama is tried for treason, sedition, and premeditated mass-murder-by-ideology — or so I wish.

    The refusal to ban immigrants from Ebola hotspots, and the insane lifting of the ban on HIV infected immigrants are fairly easy to figure out. The people most likely infected are people that Obama identifies with on a personal level. Africans are the ones afflicted with Ebola and either gays or drug addicts are the most likely to be infected with HIV. These groups are part of Obama’s extended narcissistic identity. If the infected immigrants were all white and straight, or Christian and Jewish, there is no way he would allow Americans to be exposed to these deadly viruses.

    There is no sensible rationale for letting people infected with any dangerous disease to enter the country, ensuring its spread. These decisions by Obama aren’t based in incompetence, however, but in malevolence. This is yet another way to degrade the nation, kill innocent Americans, drive up health care costs, but make him a hero in Africa.

    Ebolabama was elected to defend Americans from harm.That is the primary role of a president. He has failed at every call to duty, and diametric to his oath, continues to go out of his way to expose Americans to deadly harm. His track record is far too consistent to explain away as blundering. His decisions are invariably destructive to the United States. He should be forcibly removed from office and tried for his long string of crimes against America and Americans. What he is doing is intentional and can only be motivated by a deep hatred toward this country and its citizens.

    Obama is evil. The targets of his evil are America and Israel — America because we are an impediment to the transnational totalitarianism he is working toward, and Israel because of a deep, deep primordial hatred that can’t be rationally explained.

    If Ebolabama is judged by the fruits of his labors, those fruits would be Nightshade or Strychnos nux-vomica — which grows in Indonesia where he was indoctrinated into the death cult of Islam.

    • camp7

      Wow, bullseye truebearing.

      • truebearing

        Thanks.

        It is time for people to get angry…very, very angry. Obama is inflicting horrible deaths upon Americans intentionally. We need to find our fight or flight response, buried though it may be in political correctness and fear.

        • seewithyourowneyes

          Political correctness, like AIDS, first destroys its host’s immune system defenses.

          • truebearing

            Perfect.

    • I_Am_Me

      The bigger issue is who elected him. Leftism spreads until the host organism perishes.

    • cree

      Too easy for this one post maybe; all the grievances towards proof of the last 6 years is the rest.

      Not sure how many people haven’t quite come to the conclusion that we’ve been taken over by a maniacal despotic oligarchy. The damage from consequences adds up daily.

      Unlike say Russia’s people who have lived under tyranny for so, so long, there are still enough in America who’ve come to cherish the liberty we’re losing. The bad consequences I think will collapse the system of its own weight and turn the county against the madness. Not sure though we can counter the govt. backlash possible. The Constitution is maimed but not dead. Socialism’s present failure will offer the proof to indict. maybe even turn many leftists like as David Horowitz.

      We’ve been forced into the Obama regime rule. We’ll have to persevere the consequences and let it destroy itself, with as much legitimate objection help as we can inflict.

      • truebearing

        If all we do is persevere, we will die with it. We need a reaction that it more robust and just as relentless as they are.

        • cree

          We’re in agreement then; just that I didn’t use quite the right words?

          Is good to know we’re united with others determined as we in persevering in the fight, while suffering the consequences failures (destroying itself) of the Obama regime.

    • MLCBLOG

      He is at least ignorant.

  • camp7

    I always knew this idiot president was dangerous. He’s like a brat with a book of matches. He needs to be spanked hard, very hard.

  • Guest

    Good one Daniel. If were you, I’d develop germaphobia. Please take precautions. Everyone.

    • Daniel_Greenfield

      I’m already there. It’s why I don’t shake hands with liberals.

  • MrUniteUs1

    President Obama didn’t open the border.

    “The left is increasingly angry with President Obama, calling him the “deporter-in-chief.” That’s because the total number of deportations during Obama’s tenure recently passed 2 million. As Dara Lind wrote last week at Vox,
    that pace puts him on track to “have deported more people by the end of
    2014 than George W. Bush did in his entire eight years.”

    President Obama didn’t open the border.

    Bush did.
    “There are jobs that just simply aren’t getting done because Americans
    won’t do them. And yet, if you’re making 50 cents an hour in Mexico, and
    you can make a lot more in America, and you’ve got mouths to feed,
    you’re going
    to come and try to find the work. It’s a big border, across which people
    are coming to provide for their families.”

    Ronald Reagan granted amenesty to illegals.

    • kasandra

      Oh please. The reason the regime claims it has increased deportations is that it has changed the way it counts deportations to include people stopped and turned away at the border. And Bush didn’t open the border. He tried pass immigration “reform” but his own party rebelled and stopped it.

      • MrUniteUs1

        Has Barack Obama deported more people than any other president in U.S. history?

        By Louis Jacobson on Friday, August 10th, 2012 at 3:07 p.m.

        “If you instead compare the two presidents’ monthly averages, it works
        out to 32,886 for Obama and 20,964 for Bush, putting Obama clearly in
        the lead. Bill Clinton is far behind with 869,676 total and 9,059 per
        month. All previous occupants of the White House going back to 1892 fell
        well short of the level of the three most recent presidents.”

        • Daniel_Greenfield

          http://www.westernfreepress.com/2014/03/24/barack-obamas-deportation-scam-homeland-security-cooks-the-books/

          The statistics are inflated by adding illegals arrested crossing the border by Customs and Border Protection – the Border Patrol – to ICE deportation figures. Such arrests are not deportations. Johnson admitted that Border Patrol arrests would not have been added to deportation figures in prior administrations.

          • kasandra

            MrUniteUs1 is a parrot. He’s not listening or reading (or learning). He just like most of his political ilk. Just think, it’s major news and very controversial, and not just on FPM, when a leftist comedian admits that there seems to be something amiss with Islam.

        • obamathemarxist

          Go away your too stupid to argue with

    • Daniel_Greenfield

      You’re quoting Vox? The site that claims there’s a giant invisible bridge over Israel no one has seen? Why not quote slightly more credible 9/11 Truther sites?

      • MrUniteUs1

        The 2 million deportations figure was widely reported.

        What do you think about what Bush said, and Reagan and granting amnesty.

        “There are jobs that just simply aren’t getting done because Americans
        won’t do them. And yet, if you’re making 50 cents an hour in Mexico, and
        you can make a lot more in America, and you’ve got mouths to feed,
        you’re going
        to come and try to find the work. It’s a big border, across which people
        are coming to provide for their families.”

        Ronald Reagan granted amenesty to illegals.

        • Daniel_Greenfield

          Bush was wrong about a lot of things. This was one of them.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    Obviously, the best way to fight the Nazis at their source In Poland and Austria was to let the Nazis in. That worked, didn’t it? The best way for Rome to fight the Huns, Visagoths, and Vandals at their source was to let them. That worked out well. Going back a bit in our own history, the best way for American revolutionaries to fight the British at their source was to let them in and ask them to tea.

    • I_Am_Me

      Well put. In the Left’s ceaseless power grab, they are importing cultural enemies as fast as they can for their temporary votes. Rome and the Visigoths is almost identical to what is going on now. We have uneducated, idealistic children making foreign policy and immigration decisions now.

      • MLCBLOG

        I vividly remember the day when a young Senator Ted Kennedy was pressing his immigration bill that would greatly reduce the tandards for entrance to our country. He earestly assured us that it would not change the demographics by much. That’s how they lie.

    • Daniel_Greenfield

      The Communists said that Isms, such as Fascism, couldn’t be defeated, back when they allied with Hitler.

  • wildjew

    In case you’ve not noticed, mocking of ‘Neanderthal’ anti-science conservatives is vicious, pervasive and sustained on the left.

    “Science Reporter Slams Fox’s Ebola Coverage: ‘Level of Ignorance We Shouldn’t Allow in Media’

    “NIH Doctor Takes Fox’s Chris Wallace to Science School over Ebola Panic”

    Unless this thing spreads, the mocking will continue. The Obama-supporting left is certain it will not spread.

    • Daniel_Greenfield

      The best way to convince the ignorant to stay that way is to convince them that they’re really smarter than the people who know the truth.

  • wildjew

    The Bible (Torah) on leprosy:

    Lev 13:4“But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body, and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the hair on it has not turned white, then the priest shall ISOLATE (emphasis mine) him who has the infection for seven days.

    Lev 13:5“The priest shall look at him on the seventh day, and if in his eyes the infection has not changed and the infection has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall ISOLATE him for seven more days.

    Lev 13:11 it is a chronic leprosy on the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he shall not ISOLATE him, for he is unclean.

    • Daniel_Greenfield

      Tzaras, the Biblical disease referred to as leprosy, isn’t the same disease, but the point about isolating him still holds.

      • MrUniteUs1

        Sounds like Vitiligo

        https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/nes263/student2007/ass43/exile.html

        Numbers 12 King James Version (KJV)

        12 And
        Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman
        whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

        2 And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the Lord heard it.

        9 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them; and he departed.

        10 And
        the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became
        leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she
        was leprous.

        11 And
        Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin
        upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.

    • MrUniteUs1

      ◄ Exodus 4:6 ►
      Parallel VersesNew International Version
      Then
      the LORD said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand
      into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous –it had
      become as white as snow.

  • http://www.apollospeaks.com/ ApolloSpeaks

    ON THE DAY THOMAS DUNCAN LANDED IN WASHINGTON

    a knife carrying Omar Gonzalez looking for Obama defeated the Secret Service in what was an unprecedented breach of White House security. Not every coincidence is fate. But this very same day ominously fell on the anniversaries of four major historical events linked to Islamic jihad and terror.

    Click http://www.apollospeaks.com for my chilling article on ISIS and biological 9/11 terror.

  • mtnhikerdude

    “President Ebola” , a brilliant description as how he will be referred to in history .
    The CDC is the center for deferment control . Seems everyone caves to the wishes of “President Ebola”. By 2016 there will be chaos . I am saddened . Keep the truth out there Daniel . We lost Andrew . You are the General Patton in the fight to salvage America from 3rd world status. We are being “Detroited ” !

  • kasandra

    Simply excellent!

  • SoCalMike

    When Obama’s policies get people killed, the mass media parasites and false prophets circle the wagons isolating and insulating Obama.
    Save a whale. Harpoon a journOlist.

  • kevinstroup

    There is more than just Ebola coming across that border. Dengue fever, TB, VD, Chikungunya fever, etc. But that’s okay, we have Obamacare to cover it. Face it. There is a war being brought upon the white majority of this country. The white majority is being replaced by a more compliant, Democrat leaning electorate. It is all by design. Cloward-Piven much?

  • Gee

    I believe that the White House has lots of spare rooms. Maybe the Ebola patients should be cared for there

  • Libslayer

    The deadliest virus in American history is the “Obama virus”, which destroys everything it touches. Cure that, and we have a fighting chance.

  • bob e

    well stated .. of course barry o’fraud, son of a kenyan goat herder, who was born in hawaii with a connecticut social security number bears no legal liability
    for anything ..

  • MrUniteUs1

    Dan presented no facts to support his open borders accusations against our President.

    Here are the facts.
    The Obama administration deported a record number of undocumented
    immigrants during the fiscal year 2013. According to a newly released
    report by the Department of Homeland Security, 438,421 deportations were
    carried out by the administration in 2013. Since taking office,
    President Barack Obama has presided over 2 million deportations.

    Deportations skyrocketed by more than 20,000 over 2012 figures and by
    more than 50,000 over 2011. The study was conducted by the department’s
    Office of Immigration Statistics, which is in charge of collecting the
    most accurate numbers on immigration enforcement.

    http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2014/10/06/us-deported-record-number-undocumented-immigrants-in-2013-dhs-says/

    • Daniel_Greenfield

      http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/24/Border-Patrol-Union-President-No-one-is-afraid-of-breaking-the-law

      The presidents of the unions representing Border Patrol agents and Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents will argue that current government policies have led to the massive influx of unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors and family units at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday.

      According to written testimony for the committee hearing, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News, Brandon Judd, President of the National Border Patrol Council, and Chris Crane, President of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, will lay out what they see are the factors contributing to the unprecedented surge in illegal migration by unaccompanied children.

      http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/illegals-taunt-border-patrol-agents-obamas-gonna-let-me-go/

      “The Border Patrol agent was loading one man up, and he told the officer in Spanish, ‘Obama’s gonna let me go’.”

      Border Patrol agents report that immigrants are crossing the border, and in some cases surrendering while asking, “Where do I go for my amnesty?”

    • kasandra

      The fact that you keep repeating that Obama has increased deportions doesn’t make it any truer. The Obama administration changed what they considered a “deportation” from the definition previously used and counted people turned away at the border as having been “deported” whereas previous administrations counted only true deportations as deportations.

    • oldironsides

      There have been a couple of stories in the news of illegals being deported multiple times and still coming back in. These stories are centered around the crimes they have committed. If you count the total number of deportations and divide that total by these people who have been deported more than once your figures are reduced.

  • nomoretraitors

    As I’ve said before and will say again:
    An absolute and utter disgrace to the office

  • Hard Little Machine

    Schools near the Mexican border have been quietly closing since this summer’s rush of illegalitos and the TB, scabies, rubella, measles, mumps and chickenpox they brought with them. In all of this discussion what’s been lost or ignored is that unchecked immigration from the third world brings with it third world problems. How long before cholera, yellow fever, tularemia make their appearance known. You don’t need a diseased to be transmissible from person to person for it to be a public heath nightmare.

  • Elisheva

    It is time to limit a President’s powers. He needs to be stopped and removed from making decisions. He has a disease of the mind that makes him dangerous.

  • laura r

    somehow diseases which originate w/black folks get 1st class treatment. connection here?

  • JERSEY FATMOUTH

    Lest we forget, the Beheadero-virus 57 which struck in Oklahoma last week needs to be isolated and dealt with, too.

  • MrUniteUs1

    Under reported. Congress denied the President’s latest request for border funds

    http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/09/10/congress-denies-obamas-latest-request-for-border-funds-for-now/

    • Daniel_Greenfield

      Because Obama isn’t securing the border. He’s using funds to transport more illegal aliens into America. Speeding up their processing so they can spread more disease in the US is not something Congress should fund.

  • bennyzr

    One can only hope that the lowlifes that are making it easier for these diseases to infect Americans get infected themselves. The individual states need to balk at this and call for a constitutional convention to squash the current federal dictatorship, or secede to protect it’s own citizens.

  • http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/ Edward Cline

    Now, who says Obama, the politically-owned CDC, and sundry “open borders” advocates aren’t altruist and brimming with good intention?. America and Americans are duty-bound to sacrifice themselves to Ebola, returning ISIS fighters, and swarms of disease-laden illegals. No one’s noticed that halo hovering over Obama’s head. It’s the “moral” duty of every otherwise healthy American to impoverish himself to support his killers and those of his children, and to pay for their care, sustenance, and peace of mind.

  • physicsnut

    some thinking out loud about detecting :
    since I don’t see any practical suggestions here, let me take a whack at it.
    In Dunnigan’s “Dirty little Secrets” on page 75 it mentions using laser based devices to detect poison gas at a distance. Bingo. That is the sort of thing we want for detecting and screening for Ebola. But we want to look for a different bunch of molecules and not at great distances – more like a few feet, so we don’t need powerful lasers. The gist is to get those who know laser detection together with those who know what kinds of molecules indicate an ebola infection, and figure out how to detect low levels of these molecules, and get ideas on how to make the least expensive device to do it – and hand it out to Doctors Without Borders – so they have something better than a simple infrared thermometer. Seems like the sort of thing Bill Gates might be
    interested in having developed – or maybe Hewlett Packard already knows how to do it. One wants an ‘ebola-intensity’ readout, like taking a temperature.
    Maybe some crowd sourcing/funding. Or maybe some folks with the relevant expertise. Or maybe something like StackExchange to refine things.
    if there is a general methodology – extend it to enterovirus … etc etc

    here is a link from ‘fideous’ at cns (thanks) re Marlan Orvil Scully
    who wrote ‘Quantum Optics’ and ‘Laser Physics’ – and got his PHD from Willis Lamb !!
    It does not get any better than that. Detects Anthrax in a TENTH OF A SECOND !

    http://www.princeton.edu/engineering/news/archive/?id=521

    and more details on detecting viruses:
    http://www.gizmag.com/princeton-laser-breakthrough-will-enable-sniffing-the-air-at-a-distance/17728/

    and about testing Ebola tests and problems with it.
    http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6204/1549.full

    remember this : Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering !!!
    and shrink this puppy down to a hand held size.

  • edlancey

    Obola can’t now curtail the flights since that would mean admitting he was wrong. So it won’t happen.

    • landshark123

      And ‘The One’ is never wrong…

      Ever

      • edlancey

        He’s just let down by people who aren’t as smart as he – which is everyone as far as he’s concerned.

  • truebearing

    Most leftist idiots fancy themselves to be intellectuals. They are deluded into believing “I think, therefore I’m smart.” As long as they regurgitate what their Marxist professor teaches, they are given good grades and told they are geniuses. What better way to indoctrinate stupid people who desperately want to be smart?

    • MLCBLOG

      Having lived through a deep decade-long identity as a leftist radical organizer, I say you are Right on here. I agree with you and think of Eric Hoffer in that the True Believer is desperately looking for validation and finds it in a cause so they then can have opinions that let them feel smart and important and can also experience some sense of belonging, some validation. Noticable to me was that most of us had severe lack in our family support and nurture systems.

  • TL2014

    So Daniel, how do I protect my two under two from these dangers? I live in Chicago. Any suggestions?

  • DVult

    Ebola is no more harmful than the religion of peace.

  • DontMessWithAmerica

    Like Rev. King, I have a dream and in that dream we have a new administration which enacts new, sensible laws, one of which prevents enemies of America from entering the country. My dream continues and I see the former president Obama coming from an overseas trip but when he gets to the border, he is refused entry for a list as long as his legs. And I’m taking bets that over half of America shares my dream.

  • Daniel_Greenfield

    Capitalism is responsible for everything. That’s why “feminists” are calling for fighting rape by smashing capitalism.

    The left indoctrinates its useful idiots with the idea that the root cause of everything is an oppressive system and selfish greed.

    Destroy those and instant utopia.

    • MLCBLOG

      Sad, when true free enterprise can be so rewarding and liberating and serve us so well.

  • NJK

    I really hope this starts infecting some in Washington, D.C., and their families. It’s about time they are personally touched by what they’ve done. I want this to make its way to Sidwell Friends, where his children go. I want them to get sick because he’s made other peoples children sick. What a rotting corpse D.C. is. If it becomes that way literally, all the better.

  • Dan Knight

    Daniel, another great piece. It’s frustrating. I would not believe any post-HIPAA government epidemiological study without thoroughly vetting it. …

  • Pericles

    The “Obama Doctrine”: The United States is no better or exceptional than any other country on the planet. Americans are no better or exceptional than any other people on the planet. Egyptians, Kenyans, Malaysians, etc., are no less part of the “world community” than Americans.

    Hence, there is no need for borders, border security, immigration laws, passports, visas, etc.

    The American Left has come very close to conquering America. 41% of Americans think that Obama’s presidency is a “success”. The Constitution has become irrelevant. Welfare has become rampant. The main purpose of tax laws is to effect income redistribution. Declines in labor force participation are embraced because they promote dependency on government. Etc., etc.

    So what if a “few” American lives are sacrificed in the process of eliminating national borders, if Nigerians are made equal to Americans, if Muslims are made equal to Christians and Jews, if the Collective eviscerates the Individual, if Atheism obliterates Theism, if Gay Marriage assumes equal status with Heterosexual Marriage, etc. ? There’s little difference between the American Left and Russian Bolshevism. Eventually the Obama regime will make this clear to many people presently in the Dark.

  • DinaRehn

    Rush Limbaugh – Amnesty Is The Reason Obama Won’t Stop Ebola Fights From Africa
    Rush Limbaugh – Amnesty Is The Reason Obama Won’t Stop Ebola Fights From Africa
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JkY4gzro4Uc
    http://noisyroom.net/blog/2014/10/06/rush-limbaugh-amnesty-is-the-reason-obama-wont-stop-ebola-fights-from-africa/

  • http://121314rainbow.blogspot.com/ Zed Power

    Obama is creating a stunning legacy. One might wonder if he isn’t destroying the US on purpose. Don’t progressives believe that we are too numerous and about 25 million or so useless eaters have to go one way or another?
    AIDS, Ebola, foreign criminals. Is he letting ISIS sneak across the border as well?

    • nomoretraitors

      I don’t wonder. I KNOW he is destroying the US on purpose. That’s the Alinsky way: infiltrate, dominate, then terminate

  • DinaRehn

    Some Ebola experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed
    Yet some scientists who have long studied Ebola say such assurances are premature — and they are concerned about what is not known about the strain now on the loose. It is an Ebola outbreak like none seen before, jumping from the bush to urban areas, giving the virus more opportunities to evolve as it passes through multiple human hosts.

    Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Virginia and who later led the CDC’s most far-reaching study of Ebola’s transmissibility in humans, said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the air in tight quarters.

    Dr. Philip K. Russell, a virologist who oversaw Ebola research while heading the U.S. Army’s Medical Research and Development Command, and who later led the government’s massive stockpiling of smallpox vaccine after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, also said much was still to be learned. “Being dogmatic is, I think, ill-advised, because there are too many unknowns here.”

    If Ebola were to mutate on its path from human to human, said Russell and other scientists, its virulence might wane — or it might spread in ways not observed during past outbreaks, which were stopped after transmission among just two to three people, before the virus had a greater chance to evolve. The present outbreak in West Africa has killed approximately 3,400 people, and there is no medical cure for Ebola.

    “I see the reasons to dampen down public fears,” Russell said. “But scientifically, we’re in the middle of the first experiment of multiple, serial passages of Ebola virus in man…. God knows what this virus is going to look like. I don’t.”
    http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-questions-20141007-story.html#page=1

  • EamonnDublin

    Surely, surely, SURELY, somebody in a position of influence in the United States can see clearly that Obama is trying to castrate the country? Why are all the wimps staying silent? Get the guy OUT. Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

  • bigjulie

    Daniel…WELL DONE!! If the “Tea Party” ever becomes a “Real Party” I nominate you to be its Chief Advisor!

  • nimbii

    Daniel, accidentally deleted a recent post by you regarding the unhappiness of liberals and the left. How do I access past articles?

  • physicsnut

    All the lib sites are blabbering about how obamacare would deal with it.
    How totally brainless.

    Gostin on c-span – not very reassuring.
    look – those getting on a plane in some “hot spot” need to get a PCR ebola test.
    The test strips are inexpensive, and put a lab at the airport – so get to the
    airport a few hours early or the day before. That is a lot better than just taking
    someone’s temperature – though they should do that also. But if people can
    take tylenol to avoid a fever reading, they would just as easily lie on a questionaire.
    What really irked me is Gostin saying that in Texas they did not follow protocol – hey – emergency rooms are like “one thing after another” environments, and it is no surprise that people drop the ball, or are unprepared – unless you get a phone call or email to alert you that someone might have ebola , with a list of do and don’t.
    for some info on testing see:
    http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6204/1549.full

    The main thing needed at clinics
    and airports is a handheld photonic device to quickly
    detect blood capillary damage of the sort
    caused by Ebola or Hanta – no need to
    detect viruses – just the symptom. Then
    the person can be sent to an isolation ward
    before infecting other people on planes or in the waiting room.
    It has to be as fast as an infrared thermometer.
    A receptionist would use it before one even gets to a nurse or
    doctor.
    Does such a detector already exist ?

  • USARetired

    Total disaster is exactly what Obama is striving for, It is hi Muslim doctrine to do so!

  • oldironsides

    Truebearing is right on.