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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; ebola</title>
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		<title>Now We Also Have an Ebola Amnesty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's no such a thing as too much amnesty]]></description>
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<p>There&#8217;s no such a thing as too much amnesty.<a href="http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/224827-dhs-gives-protected-status-to-people-from-ebola-stricken-countries"> Just ask Obama&#8230;</a></p>
<blockquote><p>The Obama administration is granting temporary protected status to roughly 8,000 people living in the United States whose home countries are stricken with Ebola.</p>
<p>The move by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is intended to protect people from being deported back to places experiencing disaster conditions.</p>
<p>The government will allow people from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone to apply for protection from deportation and for work permits that last 18 months, officials told Reuters.</p>
<p>Grants of protected status will be re-evaluated after that period based on the state of the Ebola epidemic.</p></blockquote>
<p>That might sound defensible, <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2014/11/21/the-truth-about-obamas-temporary-ebola-amnesty-n1921872">but as Michelle Malkin has pointed out, </a>Hotel Amnesty is like Hotel California.</p>
<p>Once you check in, you&#8217;re here for good.</p>
<blockquote><p>In October, the White House extended TPS status and employment permits for an estimated 90,000 illegal alien Hondurans and Nicaraguans &#8220;for an additional 18 months, effective Jan. 6, 2015, through July 5, 2016.&#8221; Who are these TPS winners? Well, they&#8217;ve been here since 1998 &#8212; when Hurricane Mitch hit their homeland. That was 16 years ago. Their &#8220;temporary&#8221; status has been renewed a dozen times since the Clinton administration first bestowed it.</p></blockquote>
<p>And they&#8217;ll have kids who are born here and be undeportable under Obama&#8217;s brand new amnesty.</p>
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		<title>California Nurses Union Jumps into Action Against Ebola, Goes on Strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2014 17:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These people don't care about patients or children]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_244860" style="width: 340px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NNU-rally-in-DC.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-244860" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NNU-rally-in-DC.jpg" alt="They're patient advocates like Ebola is an antibiotic" width="330" height="218" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">They&#8217;re patient advocates like Ebola is an antibiotic</p></div>
<p>California nurses unions, which are to affordable patient care what AIDS is to the immune system, are gearing up to deal with Ebola in the only way they know how.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-08/kaiser-nurses-in-california-plan-to-strike-over-ebola.html">By going on strike</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Some 18,000 nurses in Northern California are planning a two-day strike starting Nov. 11, partly over equipment and training standards for the Ebola virus.</p></blockquote>
<p>But&#8230; they&#8217;re doing it for the patients. Just like teachers&#8217; unions go on strike for the children. And politicians steal for the people.</p>
<blockquote><p>The union said in a Nov. 6 statement that Kaiser “continued to stonewall on dozens of proposals to improve patient care standards, as well as refusing to address the concern of Kaiser RNs about Ebola safety protocols and protective equipment, refusing to even answer questions by the RNs.”</p></blockquote>
<p>So is this actually about patient care and Ebola?</p>
<blockquote><p>He disputed the idea that health workers aren’t being trained to deal with Ebola.</p>
<p>“We are training our staff on how to use the right protective gear, to make sure they know how to use it,” Nelson said in the statement. “We have repeatedly asked union leadership to work with us on our Ebola strategy. They have refused. Instead, they continue to hold press conferences claiming hospitals are unprepared for Ebola.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It just happens that this sudden concern for Ebola and patient care overlaps with a union contract expiring.</p>
<blockquote><p>The union’s contract with nonprofit Kaiser expired in August and was extended until October, he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>So this is really about leverage in contract negotiations while using Ebola to scare people.</p>
<p>Another little reminder that teachers&#8217; unions and nurses&#8217; unions are run by unalloyed sociopaths who will literally do and say anything for more seniority protection and quadruple paid overtime.</p>
<p>These people don&#8217;t care about patients or children. They exploit them and abuse them to make education and hospitals even worse while lining their own pockets.</p>
<p>What has National Nurses United, one of the more aggressive nurses&#8217; unions been doing? It backed a ban on fracking, fought to allow schools to bill children for &#8220;services&#8221; provided to them by school RNs (Cha-Ching), fought to prevent community colleges from teaching nursing or to allow athletic trainers to work with patients. Because they just care so much.</p>
<p>The path to fixing education lies through ending the teachers&#8217; unions. The path to fixing health care lies through ending nurses&#8217; unions.</p>
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		<title>Quarreling with Quarantine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mallory Millett]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a survivor of Bulbar polio in my childhood, let me tell you what a real “civil rights” violation is. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/re.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-244508" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/re.jpg" alt="re" width="275" height="176" /></a>Now I&#8217;ve heard everything! Quarantines are a violation of civil rights?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the civil rights violation: Not quarantining people who have deadly diseases. One of the few mandated obligations of our government is to protect its citizens. Exactly when and how did the sense of this get lost?</p>
<p>It seems every other day there&#8217;s a national argument breaking out because people no longer realize that the government&#8217;s main purpose is to keep us safe from threats both within and without the country.</p>
<p>When I was twelve years old I was diagnosed with Infantile Paralysis. Polio. This struck directly after my graduation from elementary school at the start of what was to be a grand slope of a summer, culminating in the glorious start of high school. I vividly recall that week, which began on such a high note and then unraveled into what we assumed was flu— crushing for such an eager little beaver who was about to step out to conquer the world.</p>
<p>The doctor who delivered me into the world came for a house call and decided it was, indeed, the flu.  However, the next day, it alarmed my well-seasoned mother when the doctor called saying he wanted to come back and take another look.</p>
<p>I tiptoed out of my sickbed to spy while my mother whispered to my sisters, Sally and Katie: &#8220;This is frightening, girls! Never have I had a doctor call <em>me</em> to ask if he could come back to look at my child. Never!&#8221;</p>
<p>This turned out to be the last great summer epidemic of polio.  It was the end of May. Dr. Salk came out with his vaccine the following November. But at that moment people were contracting the disease in droves and dropping like insects on a dog-day August afternoon.</p>
<p>When Dr. Flannigan returned the following day, it was only moments before he called an ambulance to whisk me off to the city&#8217;s public hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota.</p>
<p>Ancker Hospital was the only possible option when one was diagnosed with the dreaded polio. No private hospital would take you. So, in fear and trembling, I was torn from the sanctuary of my childhood bedroom amid sirens blaring and with my traumatized mommy gripping my hands as if it were to be our last moments together on earth.</p>
<p>They took us to an isolated room, attached but separate from the hospital. Tests were performed. One was a spinal tap, which taught me for all time the true meaning of God-awful pain. I learned then and there I could never withstand torture by Nazis or the Japanese as I&#8217;d always fervently believed. My first experience with profound all-engulfing pain taught me well that I would do anything to make such agony stop.  Turn in my devoted mother. Beg them to do it to anyone else.  Just make it stop.</p>
<p>After several tormenting hours we learned that not only did I have polio but that I had the most vicious form of all: Bulbar polio &#8212; the type that lands you in an iron lung. It had a 97% fatality rate.</p>
<p>Here is where my story has true relevance to current history: this was the fifties, the last period in our country when people behaved as adults, acting reasonably and seeing to it that they responded to such crises with care and maturity in order to protect each other.</p>
<p>I was instantly quarantined. My mother and sisters were quarantined in our home. I was placed in the Bulbar polio ward along with everyone else who had the exact same thing as I did. I was tearfully torn away while clinging to my bewildered mother as we both realized it might be the last time we would ever see, smell or touch each other in this lifetime.</p>
<p>I was installed in an open ward with about twelve beds occupied by people of both sexes, all ages. The only segregation was with respect to our particular strain of this killer, crippling disease. We were the Bulbar people. Those with spinal polio were elsewhere.</p>
<p>My mother and sisters were confined to our home, which they could not leave under any circumstances. An enormous yellow poster declaring that the premises were under quarantine was plastered over the front door of our innocent white house and no one could enter or leave for what I believe was thirty days. The groceries were ordered by phone and left on the steps down by the public sidewalk.</p>
<p>Health officials stormed my bedroom and <em>every single thing</em> was removed and burned. My dolls and teddy bears; my desk, bed and radio. Everything was taken from my little-girl room and destroyed.</p>
<p>Meanwhile I plotted like a wily cat to stay alive. Lying in that fevered and terrifying illness my mind raced as to how I could escape the drift of death, which was moving throughout that room. Every night some one or two of my fellow inmates died.</p>
<p>They always died at night, it seemed, and they had the exact same illness as I had. I was twelve years old and my lot was to quietly wait until it was my turn to be wheeled out as a corpse covered in a white sheet. After about a week this became highly notable and so I concocted a scheme to survive.</p>
<p>A patient with Bulbar succumbs under the tsunami of phlegm their body produces. As there were only two suction machines on the floor and half-staff at night, people were drowning in their own mucous.</p>
<p>I figured the only thing that might possibly get me out of that room and back at home would be if I stayed awake all night, every night.  If I just piled high the pillows and sat up very straight maybe I wouldn&#8217;t suffocate in the never-abating ocean of snot.</p>
<p>Another thing which insured my alertness was the specter of the iron lung. There were only four of them in the hospital and they were strung up and down the sides of the hallways, as there wasn&#8217;t space in the rooms for such enormous contraptions. My two goals were to stay alive and then to elude that iron lung.</p>
<p>I stayed up all night every night doing crossword puzzles and reading, and then slept all day. Opening my dazed eyes from time to time I could contemplate the lung’s hideous form with some poor soul captured in its clutches just outside my doorway. Often there would be a heart-pounding stir as health workers suddenly burst into the room to perform an emergency tracheotomy with blood spurting everywhere and the pulsing of a life-and-death drama. This could happen at any time, during lunch or dinner; at midnight, upon whomever death had come to perch.</p>
<p>We were all perfect strangers locked in a sweaty struggle against death and atrophy, which oddly made us instant intimates.  Even as a preadolescent what struck me most profoundly in those days and nights in that desperate room was the unceasing passion, heroism, self-sacrifice, and committed devotion of every person who labored to keep us alive.</p>
<p>I was such a desperate child longing for my family and home, convinced that I would never again see the people I loved. No one was allowed to visit; not even my mother. I was fortunate enough to have a window and in those days you could open them. I think we were on the eighth floor or so. My family would gather on the street corner below and as they waved up at me, I hung out of my window pleading, &#8220;Get me out of here!!&#8221;</p>
<p>Many, many people died in that room with me. Each time someone expired they were replaced by another Bulbar victim. One was a four-year old girl named Bernadette, whom I had befriended and taken under my older wing. The blow of her death stung deeply and I was gripped with shock for weeks.</p>
<p>Nurse Kaci Hickox, who recently returned from treating patients in Ebola-stricken Sierra Leone, is &#8220;fighting for her freedom&#8221;? She says &#8220;no&#8221; to quarantine? Doctor Craig Spencer, who contracted Ebola, lied about his movements after returning to the US? We find out he was out and about all over New York City? What kind of dedicated doctors and nurses are these people? They&#8217;re scientists, no?  We deserve much better.</p>
<p>Nurse Hickox says quarantine is a violation of her civil rights.  No, it is, in fact, your civic duty to accept quarantine. Have we really become such unspeakably self-involved, narcissistic, immature, mindless citizens? What a sad country we have dwindled to. How can it be that it isn&#8217;t commonly understood that quarantine is a vitally important, adult, necessary action in these scenarios? I can hardly contain my outrage at these persons&#8217; indifference.</p>
<p>Back in the days of my childhood it never ever occurred to us to fight or resent or argue with the quarantine. For God&#8217;s sake, neither I at my callow age nor my family of various ages —nor anyone in that room with me— ever would have considered quarreling with the quarantine. On the contrary, I would have been horrified had I infected anyone else; nor did my mother and sisters bristle at their captive state.</p>
<p>They, we, waited it out, grateful to be surrounded by educated, thoughtful, concerned people who took care to confine us along with the disease. The plan worked and I got to walk out free and healed at the end of summer, just in time to attend the first day of high school.</p>
<p>These days I find myself consumed with a deep longing for that time in America when people actually grew into adults. We used to be quite wonderful people. Will we ever again be surrounded, nursed or even governed by caring grown-up fellow citizens?</p>
<p><em>Mallory Millett resides in New York City with her husband of over twenty years. CFO for several corporations, she is a long-standing member of The David Horowitz Freedom Center and sits on the Board of Regents for the Center for Security Policy. </em></p>
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		<title>ISIS May Team Up w/Obama for Ebola</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it Islamophobia or Ebolaphobia?]]></description>
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<p>The only question is will liberals suppress this news because of Islamophobia or Ebolaphobia. Lately the media has been more worked up about Ebolaphobia than even Islamophobia.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s<a href="http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2014/10/31/spain-isis-wants-to-spread-ebola-says-security-chief/"> all about the calculus of destructiveness</a>, both for Islam and the left.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Spanish government is taking seriously discussions in internet chat rooms on how terrorists could use biological weapons including Ebola in its war against the West, a top official said in parliament on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Spain’s state secretary for security, Francisco Martínez, has told Congress that jihadists with connections to the extremist force Isis have discussed on internet forums how they could use Ebola as a weapon against the United States and the West in general.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s simple.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s already mass immigration from the Middle East. Spread some Ebola through a few human suicide bombers. Get them inside the US while they&#8217;re still asymptomatic and let Obama&#8217;s love for spreading the Ebola by rejecting travel bans and quarantines do the rest.</p>
<p>If they can just manage to answer &#8220;No&#8221; to that Ebola questionnaire that doubles as our airport security, they&#8217;re in like Flynn.</p>
<p>Ebola, Obama and ISIS. That really is the dream team.</p>
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		<title>Hysterical Media Tell Us to Calm Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 04:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democrats now oppose the "politics of fear"?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Rachel-Maddow-on-Perry-indictment-081514-MSNBC-800x430.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244093" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Rachel-Maddow-on-Perry-indictment-081514-MSNBC-800x430-450x333.jpg" alt="Rachel-Maddow-on-Perry-indictment-081514-MSNBC-800x430" width="318" height="235" /></a>In the past week, The New York Times has ridiculed Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Gov. Chris Christie for having &#8220;fed panic&#8221; by ordering quarantines for health workers arriving from Ebola-plagued countries.</p>
<p>NBC News&#8217; Brian Williams opened his broadcast last Friday announcing that the Obama administration was trying &#8220;to restrain the Ebola panic.&#8221;</p>
<p>MSNBC&#8217;s Rachel Maddow complained that the &#8220;hysteria&#8221; over Ebola was getting &#8220;stupider.&#8221;</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t noticed any panic. If you want panic, review media coverage of the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. That hair-on-fire coverage was based entirely, it turns out, on the media&#8217;s gullibly swallowing inaccurate accounts of the incident.</p>
<p>For decades liberals have terrified soccer moms about a slew of imaginary terrors: global warming, Alar on apples, breast implants, heterosexual AIDS, nuclear war, and Republicans taking away their birth control.</p>
<p>Nannies rushed to grade schools to yank apples out of little children&#8217;s hands, elderly married couples got tested for AIDS, and students at Ivy League colleges demanded that their health departments stock cyanide pills in case of nuclear attack. (Because the Russkies were definitely hitting Ithaca, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island, first.)</p>
<p>And then, except for a few heterosexual AIDS victims &#8212; who also happened to be intravenous drug users &#8212; no American ever died from a single one of these liberal-hyped dangers. I do not recall, for example, ever hearing of a nurse acquiring AIDS from treating an AIDS patient, certainly not a nurse wearing a spacesuit, as the Ebola-infected nurses were.</p>
<p>Within the past few years, Rachel Maddow has been panicked about (among many, many other things):</p>
<p>&#8211; Right-wing hillbillies murdering census workers (the census worker committed suicide in an attempted insurance fraud);</p>
<p>&#8211; Republican budget cuts killing us when bridges collapse (the Minnesota bridge collapsed because of a design flaw, not budget cuts);</p>
<p>&#8211; Gun rights supporters plotting another Oklahoma City bombing (they had assembled on April 19, the anniversary of the bombing &#8212; which also happens to be the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord).</p>
<p>But now, the political party that specializes in hysteria has suddenly become too-cool-for-school about a deadly disease being brought to our country for no reason. Oh, you big pussy, you won&#8217;t get Ebola.</p>
<p>Let the record reflect, Democrats now oppose &#8220;the politics of fear&#8221; &#8212; as NBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd dubbed concerns about Ebola.</p>
<p>Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire accused her Republican opponent, Scott Brown, of &#8220;fear-mongering&#8221; about Ebola, but she sure didn&#8217;t mind fear-mongering on health care. In order to pass the widely unpopular Obamacare, Shaheen carried on about insurance companies&#8217; obscene profits and hectored, &#8220;We cannot wait!&#8221;</p>
<p>The New York Daily News&#8217; Denis Hamill wrote five hysterical columns on Ferguson. One was titled, &#8220;Is this Selma in 1965?&#8221; But when it comes to a disease that kills more than half of the people it infects, he says, &#8220;Take a chill pill.&#8221;</p>
<p>How about telling the deranged protesters in Ferguson to &#8220;take a chill pill&#8221;?</p>
<p>After years of Republican candidates having to assure voters that it would require several million policemen to take away every woman&#8217;s birth control kit &#8212; but that was an excellent question! &#8212; it&#8217;s too much to have to listen to liberals scoff at a disease with a 70 percent fatality rate.</p>
<p>Ebola is a lot more dangerous than any of the fears whipped up by liberals. Peter Piot, the Flemish scientist who discovered Ebola in 1976, recently told the British Guardian:</p>
<p>&#8220;I always thought that Ebola, in comparison to AIDS or malaria, didn&#8217;t present much of a problem because the outbreaks were always brief and local. Around June it became clear to me that there was something fundamentally different about this outbreak. &#8230; We Flemish tend to be rather unemotional, but it was at that point that I began to get really worried.&#8221;</p>
<p>A few days ago, Piot described the screening being done at arrival airports as &#8220;not that effective, to be honest,,&#8221; adding, &#8220;The most cost-effective method is to screen people before they take the plane.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Speaking of which, where did the CDC&#8217;s Tom Frieden go? Does he have Ebola?)</p>
<p>It&#8217;s beyond idiotic for the media to keep condescendingly instructing Americans that they are more likely to die in a car accident, from food poisoning, skin cancer or heart disease, than from Ebola.</p>
<p>We know that. We have rationally accepted the tradeoffs in order to get places quickly, dine in restaurants, walk on the beach and eat steak. Those are risks prudently taken in exchange for something we deem more valuable.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the upside of bringing Ebola here? And why on earth is the Obama administration preparing to import non-citizen Ebolees? It&#8217;s perfectly logical for Americans to ask, &#8220;What are we getting out of this?&#8221; But the only answer they get is: We can&#8217;t build a fence around the country!</p>
<p>We&#8217;re not seeing &#8220;panic.&#8221; What we&#8217;re seeing is rage that the country is having a deadly disease foist on it for no good reason.</p>
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		<title>Ebola Docs and Nurses Care About Africans, Don&#8217;t Care About Americans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city’s first Ebola patient initially lied to authorities ]]></description>
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<p>We&#8217;re told ad nauseam that the medical personnel who go to Africa are heroes. And that&#8217;s fine. I have no objection to them doing their humanitarian thing and then writing a bestselling book about it.</p>
<p>But now that Madam Ebola is in town, it&#8217;s hard to miss the fact that these people might care about Africans, but <a href="http://www.jammiewf.com/2014/heroic-ebola-doctor-lied-to-nypd-of-his-whereabouts/">they certainly don&#8217;t care about Americans</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The city’s first Ebola patient initially lied to authorities about his travels around the city following his return from treating disease victims in Africa, law-enforcement sources said.</p>
<p>Dr. Craig Spencer at first told officials that he isolated himself in his Harlem apartment — and didn’t admit he rode the subways, dined out and went bowling until cops looked at his MetroCard the sources said.</p>
<p>“He told the authorities that he self-quarantined. Detectives then reviewed his credit-card statement and MetroCard and found that he went over here, over there, up and down and all around,” a source said.</p>
<p>Spencer finally ’fessed up when a cop “got on the phone and had to relay questions to him through the Health Department,” a source said.</p></blockquote>
<p>So he lied. He couldn&#8217;t be trusted to self-quarantine which means none of them can be. Meanwhile Ebola nurse Kaci Hickox is<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/kaci-hickox-remains-defiant-won-follow-maine-ebola-quarantine-article-1.1991074"> continuing her public tantrum</a> and extinguishing whatever media manufactured sympathy the public had for her.</p>
<blockquote><p>Defiant nurse Kaci Hickox vowed to break a mandatory quarantine order that would keep her inside her Maine home for much of the next three weeks.</p>
<p>Hickox said more appropriate measures would include self-monitoring by taking her temperature twice a day and getting medical attention if she began to show symptoms of Ebola.</p>
<p>“I would go back,” said Hickox. “This has been a bit of a nightmare for me but my work in Sierra Leone for four weeks was amazing and I feel privileged to have been able to help fight this battle. I do plan on going back in fact, it’s not just ‘will I,’ it’s more of a when.”</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s a stench of egomania to Hickox&#8217;s language. She&#8217;s willing to compromise the public safety of Americans so she can have her fun while she&#8217;s stateside and then go back to Africa to feel &#8220;privileged&#8221;. For her being told to stay at home is a nightmare, but not the risk of creating an epidemic in this country.</p>
<p>Spencer has already proven that these people cannot be trusted. There&#8217;s no reason to trust Kaci Hickox after her obnoxious and thoughtless attitude.</p>
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		<title>Get Ready for Obama&#8217;s Ebola Refugees Coming to America</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 01:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope he lets them self-quarantine.]]></description>
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<p>I hope <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/28/lawmaker-claims-plans-may-be-in-pipeline-to-bring-non-citizens-to-us-for-ebola/">he lets them self-quarantine</a>. We wouldn&#8217;t want that mean Mr. Christie and mean Mr. Cuomo preventing them from riding the bus.</p>
<blockquote><p>A memo obtained by Fox News indicates the Obama administration has been considering allowing non-American Ebola patients into the U.S. for treatment – though a State Department official on Tuesday denied any such plans.</p>
<p>The “purpose” of the memo states: “Come to an agreed State Department position on the extent to which non-U.S. citizens will be admitted to the United States for treatment of Ebola Virus Disease.”</p>
<p>The document goes on to discuss – and advocate for &#8212; devising such a plan. The memo recommends that “State and DHS devise a system for expeditious parole of Ebola-infected non-citizens into the United States as long as they are otherwise eligible for medical evacuation from the Ebola affected countries and for entry into the United States.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh great. Ebola refugees.</p>
<blockquote><p> It says the U.S. “needs to show leadership and act as we are asking others to act by admitting certain non-citizens into the country for medical treatment for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) during the Ebola crisis.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Or we could just self-quarantine the entire State Department in Liberia. That would show even more leadership.</p>
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		<title>Government-Mandated Hysteria</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 04:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop panicking over Ebola. Start panicking over Global Warming.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cdc1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243876" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cdc1-450x251.jpg" alt="cdc" width="238" height="133" /></a>The media starts hysterical panics the way that Burger King makes burgers, but now it’s bemoaning “hysteria” and “panic” over Ebola. It’s silly for Americans to be worried about a lethal virus that has killed thousands, the self-proclaimed experts insist. It’s time to get over our irrational Ebolaphobic fear of a deadly epidemic.</p>
<p>Being concerned about Ebola is almost as silly as the other target of the media’s lectures about “hysteria” and “panic”… Islamic terrorism. Ebolaphobia and Islamophobia are the real threats.</p>
<p>Both Ebola and Jihad are transnational crises that can be stopped at the airport. That’s why the media swarm is breeding articles shrieking that you can’t stop Ebola from coming to America by preventing people with Ebola from coming to America. They tell us that it has to be stopped in Africa at the source.</p>
<p>Considering that Africa has hundreds of millions of Malaria cases, accounts for around half the cholera cases in the world and has seen the return of the Bubonic Plague; it’s safe to say that no disease can be stopped at the source in Africa. The White House claims that we shouldn’t protect America if we can’t save Africa. If we follow that transnational logic, how long until we’re starving ourselves to feed Africa?</p>
<p>It’s leftwing hysteria that is the major problem when it comes to Ebola. Instead of having a rational conversation about a travel ban, we’re forced to cope with shrieking leftists insisting that it can’t possibly work because it wouldn’t be perfect and therefore we shouldn’t do it at all.</p>
<p>And, they insist hysterically, we’re being hysterical by even worrying about Ebola.</p>
<p>The same diseased logic dictates their opposition to the War on Terror. We can either prevent Muslims from being radicalized or fight terrorism, they insist. If we fight terrorism, we’ll radicalize Muslims. The only thing to do is to stop fighting terrorism and hope that Muslims stop killing us.</p>
<p>If we fight Muslim terrorism, terrorism wins. If we quarantine Ebola, Ebola wins.</p>
<p>Today we’re getting lectured on how many more people die of the flu in America than of Ebola. After 9/11 we were told incessantly how many more people died in car accidents than in the World Trade Center. Both of these statistics have as much relevance as telling a drowning man that more people die in skiing accidents. But the panicking leftwing media can’t stop the distractions for even a minute.</p>
<p>Why should Americans be worried when their government waves ISIS Jihadists and Ebola patients through the airport? You have to be a hysterically panicking nut to be concerned about two deadly phenomena that have already killed thousands of people within recent memory entering the country.</p>
<p>The same talking heads shaking their heads over those wacky Americans worried that they’ll die just because the man sitting in the seat next to them is vomiting Ebola into a paper bag or reading the bloodiest parts of the Koran while adjusting a wire that leads to his shoe, are not immune to panic.</p>
<p>Throw something serious at them like Global Warming or Gamergate, the Redskins, Voter ID or children praying in school and they will hysterically panic so hard that the chyrons scrolling under their sweating faces will turn red. Forget silly old Ebola, somewhere a high school still has an Indian mascot. Terrorism? Don’t make me laugh. Not when a 5-year-old is biting his pop tart into the shape of an assault rifle. MSNBC spent more time on Christie’s bridge than on Ebola because he scares them more than Ebola.</p>
<p>Americans and Canadians concerned about Ebola or Jihad are accused of hysterically panicking, but that’s just because they’re not engaging in the approved government mandated forms of hysteria.</p>
<p>It’s silly to be worried about a deadly infectious disease. The sensible thing to do is dress up in a polar bear costume and stagger around in the People’s Climate March which claims that the Statue of Liberty will be underwater if we don’t all pay higher taxes in tribute to the Flying Global Warming Monster.</p>
<p>It’s ridiculous to panic over terrorism. The right thing to do is panic over a warming trend that statistically doesn’t actually exist while trying to ban everything from shopping bags to cars.</p>
<p>When Al Gore said that the North Pole’s ice cap would disappear by 2013, after claiming the year before that it might disappear in 2014, no one accused him of panic or hysteria. The media mocks televangelists who wrongly predict the end of the world, but doesn’t point the same smarmy smile at Warmists who keep getting the date when their Global Warming Monster is supposed to devour us all wrong.</p>
<p>You won’t find “Climate Change” and “Hysteria” in the same paragraph in the media because hysterics who are hysterically panicking over something silly never think that they’re the ones who need a good slap and a sizable dose of pills. They just wish everyone would stop wasting time worrying about planes flying into buildings, put on a costume and march with them while screaming that the sky is falling.</p>
<p>Unfortunately those same lunatics are not only running the media, they’re also running the country.</p>
<p>Instead of fighting Ebola, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) were focusing on Global Warming with a “Climate-Ready-States” program. None of this insane gibberish about tropical cyclones and rising seas accompanied by a picture of lightning striking the ocean had anything to do with infectious diseases.</p>
<p>It was government mandated hysteria.</p>
<p>The National Institutes of Health was also neglecting Ebola while focusing on the health effects of Global Warming. Meanwhile an Ebola vaccine was sitting on the shelf because it wasn’t nearly as exciting as preparing for an imaginary apocalypse.</p>
<p>The CDC had even found the time to roll out a Zombie preparedness site. It just couldn’t find the time to warn hospitals that there should be no skin contact with an Ebola patient. But Ebola isn’t nearly as interesting as zombies. It’s much less interesting than the Global Warming Monster.</p>
<p>You can’t expect a leftist government run by former campaign staffers with the attention span of fruit flies to care about a problem that only appeared in a Dustin Hoffman movie in 1995 back when they were in diapers. Not when there are so many new imaginary problems to lose their minds over.</p>
<p>Ideologues make good screamers and bad leaders. The media-government complex is dominated by ideologues whose only skill is telling crazy lies to paper over the gap between reality and ideology.</p>
<p>Leftists have already chosen Global Warming as their crisis because it serves their larger agenda of controlling every aspect of human behavior. Aside from claiming that Ebola and Islamic terrorism are caused by the Global Warming Monster, they refuse to address them in any meaningful way.</p>
<p>Ebola and Islamic terrorism are isolationist crises that can be defended against by closing our borders. And that’s exactly what the left does not want. Their preferred crises are transnational crises that require Americans to accept some part in a global infrastructure for an unworkable holistic solution.</p>
<p>When leftists are forced to address Ebola or Jihad, they do so through the transnational framework, exposing Americans to more risk while handing over more American rights and revenues to a global infrastructure. Anything other than the sacrifice of sovereignty, they deem hysteria and panic.</p>
<p>Government mandated hysteria occurs in the service of collectivist crises that require us to give up our freedom and autonomy. These are the crises that the media will blare through its billion screens. Real problems are deflated, their critics are ridiculed and the body count is blamed on someone else.</p>
<p>The problem isn’t public hysteria; it’s hysterical governments and their panicking propaganda operations that call their own people hysterics for noticing how badly their leaders have screwed up.</p>
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		<title>If Only Obama were as Determined to Take on Ebola, as He Was Christie and Cuomo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Setting that Ebola free is a matter of principle with Obama.]]></description>
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<p>Liberals finally have something to celebrate.</p>
<p>Obama took on Christie and Cuomo and won. No more Ebola quarantine because science, the new science, says that you don&#8217;t need to quarantine people with potentially deadly diseases. You can just let them wander around the place. Like Craig Spencer.</p>
<p>Obviously Obama took on Christie and Cuomo because their quarantine regs were making him look like the sloppy Ebola-friendly lefty that he was. But setting that Ebola free also seems to be a matter of principle with Obama.</p>
<p>After all this is the guy who dumped large numbers of disease-ridden illegals across America, distributing them across as much of the country as possible, leading to at least one epidemic.</p>
<p>Because&#8230; you know&#8230; science.</p>
<p>Obama has shown no desire to seriously deal with Ebola. His CDC was<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/cdc-had-time-to-set-up-site-about-zombies-no-time-for-ebola-protocols/"> churning out zombie comics</a> instead of legitimate guidelines on contact. The same buffoons screeching on television about science led to Ebola infections spreading with their &#8220;science&#8221;.</p>
<p>But when there was something that genuinely made him angry, like potential Ebola infectees being quarantined, he got right on it.</p>
<p>Sure Obama is lazy, but he&#8217;s also selectively lazy. When he doesn&#8217;t care about something, like the lives of millions of Americans, he&#8217;s out to lunch. But when he does care about something, his people will apply unrelenting pressure to two governors who were trying to protect their own people.</p>
<p>&#8230;while making him look bad.</p>
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		<title>CDC had Time to Set Up Site About Zombies, No Time for Ebola Protocols</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 01:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The Centers for Disease Control devoted far more effort to promoting Global Warming than addressing Ebola. The fun-loving guys and girls at the CDC even found the time to<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombies.htm"> set up a zombie preparedness site</a>.</p>
<p>Rear Admiral Ali S. Khan posted a blog about zombies.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a zombie graphic novel in which the CDC successfully grapples with a zombie epidemic. I&#8217;m not sure which is more plausible, zombies or a competent CDC which manages to get a zombie vaccine out in one week. Meanwhile in real life an Ebola vaccine lay on the shelf while the CDC was putting out zombie comic books.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cdc.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-243811" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cdc.jpg" alt="cdc" width="454" height="819" /></a></p>
<p>Does Ali Khan show up in this mess? What do you think?</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s like a whole other, better artist drew the Real Admiral. But when you&#8217;re the boss, they put in that extra time to draw you right. Don&#8217;t they, Khan?</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m certainly glad the CDC only managed to belatedly update its Ebola skin contact protocols, but it had the time to focus on vanity projects like this.</p>
<p>The comic turns out to have been a dream. Obviously. A competent CDC is someone&#8217;s dream all right. Just not anyone at the CDC.</p>
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		<title>Free Ebola: Obama Demands End to State Ebola Quarantines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let my Ebola go]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s bad enough that Obama rejects an Ebola travel ban because he thinks we need more Ebola,  but <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/nyregion/ebola-quarantine.html">he&#8217;s attacking</a> Democrats and Republicans who are doing the responsible thing by enacting quarantines.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Obama administration has been pushing the governors of New York and New Jersey to reverse their decision ordering all medical workers returning from West Africa who had contact with Ebola patients to be quarantined, an administration official said on Sunday.</p>
<p>But both governors, Andrew M. Cuomo of New York and Chris Christie of New Jersey, stood by their decision, saying that the federal guidelines did not go far enough.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s too serious a situation to leave it to the honor system of compliance,&#8221; Cuomo said of the decision.</p>
<p>Ever since Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, and Mr. Christie, a Republican, announced the plan at a hastily called news conference on Friday evening, top administration officials have been speaking with Mr. Cuomo daily and have also been in touch with Mr. Christie, trying to get them to rescind the order.</p>
<p>But in that time, two more states – Illinois and Florida – announced that they were instituting similar policies.</p>
<p>A senior administration official, who did not want to be identified in order to discuss private conversations with state officials on the issue, called the decision by the governors “uncoordinated, very hurried, an immediate reaction to the New York City case that doesn’t comport with science.”</p></blockquote>
<p>What exactly is that anonymous official&#8217;s background in science? Same as Joe Biden&#8217;s Chief of Staff/Obama&#8217;s Ebola Czar?</p>
<p>Quarantining people who are potentially infected doesn&#8217;t comport with science? Please tell me more, Guy Who Got This Job Because He&#8217;s the Brother in Law of a Campaign Donor.</p>
<blockquote><p>The decision to institute a mandatory quarantine came after a New York doctor, Craig Spencer, received a diagnosis of Ebola on Thursday, having contracted the virus while working in Guinea for Doctors Without Borders. He is being treated at Bellevue Hospital Center, where his condition has worsened, an expected development as the virus replicates and spreads through his body.</p></blockquote>
<p>But it wouldn&#8217;t be a media pile on without the usual idiot showing up to fight a travel ban.</p>
<blockquote><p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease, said it was vital not to do anything that might interfere with the flow of health workers to West Africa.</p>
<p>“The harm is that it is totally disruptive of their life. We want them to go because they are helping us to protect America to be over there,” Dr. Fauci said on CNN.</p></blockquote>
<p>No they&#8217;re not. They&#8217;re helping Africa. And that may be a noble thing, but it&#8217;s endangering America.</p>
<p>Obama doesn&#8217;t prioritize America over Africa. American leaders should.</p>
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		<title>Communist Dictator of Cholera-Ridden Country Offers US Help Fighting Ebola</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Michael Moore catches Ebola, we'll be sure to ship him your way]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_243382" style="width: 353px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cuba-hospital.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-243382" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cuba-hospital-343x350.jpg" alt="Pictured: Cuban Medicine" width="343" height="350" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Pictured: <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/humberto-fontova/cuba%E2%80%99s-healthcare-horror/">Cuban Medicine</a></p></div>
<p>Thanks but no thanks, Fidel.</p>
<p>If Michael Moore catches Ebola, we&#8217;ll be sure to ship him your way by media mail. He may arrive in 6-8 weeks. Then you can figure out how to suck the Ebola out of him.</p>
<blockquote><p>Fidel Castro has expressed Cuba’s readiness to cooperate with the US in the global fight against Ebola. Cuba has been on the frontline of international response to the worst outbreak in the disease&#8217;s history.</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s even a Cuban Ebola summit.</p>
<blockquote><p>The meeting in Cuba is aimed at keeping Ebola at bay and it brings together senior officials from the ALBA bloc of nations &#8212; Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia and Dominica.</p>
<p>&#8220;The best place to have this meeting without a doubt is Cuba because of its advances, its discipline, its solidarity,&#8221; Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said as he arrived in Havana on Sunday night.</p></blockquote>
<p>Maduro would be the dictator who turned an oil-rich country into a place where people have to wait on line for toilet paper. But it&#8217;s brave of him to put his faith in Cuban medicine since that&#8217;s what killed his predecessor, Hugo &#8220;Magic Bird&#8221; Chavez.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m just hoping that Maduro and the rest of the Ebola summiteers don&#8217;t catch Cholera, <a href="http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/watch/cholera-cuba">which is a real problem in Communist Cuba</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Cuban health authorities have reported more than 700 cases of cholera, including 3 deaths, since July 2012. The outbreak is ongoing, and cases have been reported from the provinces of Artemisa, Camagüey, Granma, Guantánamo, Havana, and Santiago de Cuba. Several cases were reported in travelers returning from Cuba, including travelers from the United States.</p></blockquote>
<p>If they reported 700 cases, then the real number is 7,000. Socialist medicine is notorious for spreading disease.</p>
<p>Maybe we should have a real travel ban on Cuba.</p>
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		<title>Jeanne Shaheen Will Fake Support Travel Ban She Opposes if it Fools Voters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 13:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The Democrats and their radical agenda are out of step with America. Most Americans support a travel ban on Ebola countries because it&#8217;s basic science. The left hates science and hates Americans.</p>
<p>Unfortunately they still need American votes to get elected because there&#8217;s only so many illegal aliens with Ebola who can be counted on to vote two hundred times in any given Chicago election.</p>
<p>No matter how much the media rants about Ebola fearmongering, the ordinary people still haven&#8217;t lost their common sense.</p>
<p>So some Dem senators are prepared to<a href="http://time.com/3525270/ebola-travel-ban-senate-election/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+(TIME%3A+Top+Stories)"> make the ultimate sacrifice of fake</a> pretending to support an Ebola travel ban. Because they love the perks of being a senator that much.</p>
<blockquote><p>Over the past several days, New Hampshire Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown has not let up hammering his Democratic opponent about Ebola.</p>
<p>On Thursday, he called on President Barack Obama to institute a travel ban from West Africa. On Friday, he said Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, is “rubber-stamping the President’s policy,” by opposing his position. He also told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade that if 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had won, Ebola wouldn’t be a problem. The next day he wrote a letter urging Shaheen to accept a travel ban, saying that the position goes “beyond partisan politics.”</p>
<p>By Monday, Shaheen could take no more. “Senator Shaheen has contacted New Hampshire officials about local preparedness,” her spokesman Harrell Kirstein said Monday afternoon, just days after Shaheen said a travel ban did not make sense. “She strongly supports any and all effective measures to keep Americans safe including travel bans if they would work.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Of course Shaheen doesn&#8217;t think they will work. She had already been quoted as saying that the travel ban makes no sense. Her statement is a conditional and she has already made it clear that she doesn&#8217;t believe in the condition.</p>
<p>Jeanne Shaheen&#8217;s lie is about as lazy as lies get. Aside from everything else it shows a basic contempt for the public. And she&#8217;s not alone.</p>
<blockquote><p>Shaheen joins an ever-growing cohort of vulnerable Democrats running for Senate that have moved on the issue. Over the past week, Colorado Sen. Mark Udall, Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor, and Georgia candidate Michelle Nunn, have announced they are in favor of some type of travel ban. On Friday, North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan even flip-flopped in favor of a ban, saying she supported it just days after saying it would not help.</p></blockquote>
<p>Of course they&#8217;re not actually going to do anything about it. They&#8217;re just creating a little imaginary distance between themselves and Obama&#8217;s radical politics in the hopes that the public won&#8217;t realize that their own politics are equally radical.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Capitalism is Responsible for Ebola&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2014 16:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That explains the massive Ebola epidemic in London]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/dumbest-woman-on-msnbc-blames-nra-for-ebola/">MSNBC told me that Ebola was caused by the NRA</a>. Now the Commies are telling me it was caused by Capitalism. I don&#8217;t know which bunch of insane left-wing ideologues to get my propaganda from.</p>
<p>The recent People&#8217;s Climate March <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/see-the-10-dumbest-idiots-from-the-peoples-climate-march/">featured numerous signs blaming Global Warming</a> on Capitalism. Now the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6603">Workers World Party</a>, a Marxist group best known for being behind the popular lefty anti-war<a href="http://weaselzippers.us/202974-communist-workers-world-party-blames-capitalism-for-ebola-outbreak/"> International ANSWER has the same message for Ebola</a>.</p>
<p>Unfortunately they have no details to back up this claim and their demand for emergency medical aid to Africa is&#8230;</p>
<p>1. Redundant</p>
<p>2. Depends on mobilizing medicines developed by filthy capitalist swine over the progressive medicines of Cuba which is experiencing yet another epidemic</p>
<p>The International Marxist Tendency, in a piece whose related articles include Karl Marx is the &#8220;Best Scientist of Them All&#8221; and Quantum physics, dialectics and society: from Marx and Engels to Khrennikov and Haven (For some folks, the USSR never fell&#8221; has an article which claims that &#8220;Ebola: an epidemic made in the capitals of Europe and America&#8221;.</p>
<p>That must explain the massive Ebola epidemic overrunning London.</p>
<p>&#8220;The labour movement must make clear, however, that the whole Ebola problem is not and has never been a medical or a scientific one. It is an issue of under-development and exploitation,&#8221; it states.</p>
<p>Well obviously. Marx was the best scientist of them all. And thanks to his wisdom, we know that disease isn&#8217;t a medical problem. It can only be solved when we put the Commies in charge.</p>
<p><a href="http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2014/06/chikungunya-outbreak-in-cuba.html">Just look at Cuba</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Doctors at the Vladimir Ilich Lenin University General Hospital, in the eastern province of Holguín, are reporting cases of chikungunya fever in several provinces.</p></blockquote>
<p>They Lenin doctors need to realize that chikungunya fever isn&#8217;t a medical problem. It&#8217;s an issue of exploitation.</p>
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		<title>CDC Gave $25 Mil in Bonuses, Had No Money for &#8220;No Exposed Skin&#8221; Ebola Guidelines</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will the Republican budget cutting madness never stop?]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s the fault of those mean Republican budget cuts. The CDC had the cash<a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=256362"> to pay out $25 million in bonuses</a>, but it just couldn&#8217;t put the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/cdcs-bold-new-guidelines-tell-nurses-treating-ebola-patients-to-cover-exposed-skin/">money together to write up guidelines telling hospitals</a> that nurses should have no exposed skin when treating Ebola patients.</p>
<p>Will the Republican budget cutting madness never stop?</p>
<blockquote><p>U.S. taxpayers gave $6 billion in salaries and $25 million in bonuses to an elite corps of health care specialists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 2007, according to data compiled by American Transparency’s OpenTheBooks.com, an online portal aggregating 1.3 billion lines of federal, state and local spending. The agency’s head count increased by 23 percent during that time, adding manpower and contributing to higher payrolls despite relatively flat funding.</p>
<p>From 2010 to 2013, all federal wages were frozen because of budgetary constraints, but CDC officials found a way to pay themselves through bonuses, overtime, within-grade increases and promotion pay raises.</p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe somebody there could have figured out how to write the kind of Ebola guidelines that any person with common sense would have come up with?</p>
<blockquote><p>Revised guidance for health care workers treating Ebola patients will include using protective gear “with no skin showing,” a top federal health official said Sunday.</p>
<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said those caring for an Ebola patient in Dallas were left vulnerable because some of their skin was exposed.</p>
<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working on revisions to safety protocols.</p></blockquote>
<p>I hope somebody gets a big bonus for that revision.</p>
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		<title>Bill Whittle: Fear of Ebola</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2014 04:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>A deadly epidemic is on the loose in America. It&#8217;s not an Ebola epidemic. It&#8217;s an epidemic of fear. In this must-see FIREWALL, Bill Whittle tells us not only that we should be optimistic, but WHY we should be optimistic, as well as what was done right, what was done wrong, and what needs to be done in the future. See the video and transcript below:</p>
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<p>Hi everybody. I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall.</p>
<p>There’s an epidemic breaking out in America – a deadly and destructive epidemic that can do catastrophic damage to our country and its people. It’s not an Ebola epidemic. It’s an epidemic of fear. It’s an epidemic of fear caused not only by the presence of a terrible disease, but by the sense that no one is in charge, no one is taking decisive action, and that the people charged with defending us against this kind of threat were asleep at the wheel and continue to flounder, lie to us, and cover their mistakes. When you get right down to it, this fear epidemic is caused by the belief that in this battle with Ebola, it’s the virus that has the initiative.</p>
<p>And it doesn’t have to be this way. All the American people need is a little honesty, and a little leadership, and if the Federal government cannot be counted on to tell you the politically incorrect truth, then that job falls to the states, or to the people themselves.</p>
<p>So let me try to tell you what there is to fear, why there is cause for optimism, and what actions need to be taken.</p>
<p>EVD, the Ebola Virus Disease, is a pretty simple, single strand of RNA that produces hemmoragic fever — in its later stages it destroys the walls of blood vessels and causes a host of horrific symptoms. The critical number — in terms of our ability to contain an outbreak — is the Basic Reproduction Number, R sub zero, usually spoken as “R Naught.” R naught is an estimate of how many people an infected person will pass the disease on to.</p>
<p>If R naught is less than one, the disease dies out over time. If greater than one, it will grow, and the bigger the number, the faster it will grow.</p>
<p>The deadly 1918 outbreak of influenza, spread easily by airborne droplets from sneezing, had an R naught of 2-3: every infected person infected two to three more. Measles, which is completely airborne, is extremely infections with an R naught of 12-18.</p>
<p>Ebola, in its present form, has an R naught of only 1-2. That number is very low, because Ebola is not transmitted either through the air or even through droplets, like measles or the flu. To contract Ebola, you need to be in direct physical contact, with a visibly symptomatic carrier, and even then the virus cannot pass through healthy skin but has to enter through the mouth, eyes, cuts, etc.</p>
<p>But that’s still a positive number, if a low one, and that means the disease spreads. But the one thing that we need to keep in mind is that the existing reproductive rate of 1-2 for Ebola is artificially much, much higher than it would be here in America, because it is derived from conditions in Central and now West Africa, where sanitary conditions are appalling and effective isolation virtually impossible. Ebola’s relatively low infection index is as high as it is almost exclusively because of burial customs in African culture, where tradition dictates that relatives wash the blood off the infected bodies by hand – blood that in the case of Ebola is extremely contagious, and there are not a lot a lot of rubber gloves or surgical masts in West Africa.</p>
<p>And there’s another factor: Ebola is not just spread by contact. It is also spread by fear. And in Africa that fear also drives these numbers much higher than they would normally be.</p>
<p>On September 18th, 2014 at least eight government health workers and journalists were found hacked to death in a latrine in Guinea, murdered in cold blood by villagers who thought they were in fact spreading the disease intentionally. There are reports of relatives breaking into hospitals in West Africa, assaulting the medical staff and removing, by force, extremely infectious individuals while shouting “There is no Ebola!” Riots broke out in the Guinean city of Neh-zeh Reh-KOH-ree, when health workers spraying disinfectant were thought to be spreading the disease. When a population attacks health workers, doctors and hospitals, instead of heeding them — well that R naught of 1-2 reflects all of that. We will not see that here.</p>
<p>Now despite these positive factors, this outbreak is in fact a very serious condition. Ebola, unlike most viruses, which can survive outside of a living body for only a few seconds or at most a few minutes, appears to be able to remain viable four up to three or fours days. So it’s a very persistent agent; hence the biohazard suits you so often see. And, of course, once contracted the disease is extremely lethal: fatality rates as high as 90% untreated and at least 50% under good conditions. So this is, in fact, a very serious problem but not an unmanageable one — especially if you live in the West. I suspect more people are going to die before we get this contained. But I do not see it breaking out into our population the way it has in Africa.</p>
<p>Now of course, that’s assuming we have a competent government. However: Federal authorities didn’t seem to give a second thought when large numbers of illegal aliens carrying various serious infections were simply tightly packed together and then distributed across the country. And, as usual, we seem to be critically short on test kits and anti-viral medications — especially vaccines. Why? We have known about this deadly disease since 1976. We have 11 carrier strike groups, fully armed and staffed, fully trained, with most of them operational at all times in order to defend the American people. Why are we so perpetually unprepared in the face of this serious and well-known threat? Is it because the present administration is so commited to the idea of open borders?</p>
<p>We’re also told that shutting off air travel to West Africa will hamper medical access and health care workers. Really? Really? You’re telling me that we can’t shut off civilian air traffic to these highly contagious areas without being smart enough to get medical personnel in and out of there, on military transports, with personnel who are presumably trained in chemical, biological and nuclear contamination protocols?</p>
<p>Some shameless Democrats are blaming budget cuts for this outbreak, but when the President spends $500 million of your tax dollars on Solyndra to make solar cells and then immediately goes bankrupt, taking that money with it; or when Obamacare is spending two thousand six hundred billion dollars in ten years, and they still can’t be prepared, then maybe the answer isn’t more money for the government. Maybe the answer is a government that gets its priorities straight when it comes to defending the American people.</p>
<p>And where’s the President on all this? Why does a private citizen have to stand here and make the case when this is in fact precisely the reason we have a chief executive in the first place?</p>
<p>Maybe he’s out fundraising. Maybe he’s playing golf. Maybe he just doesn’t care. But, as usual,  he sure as hell is not out in front of this issue – this one above all others &#8212; telling us why all we really have to fear is fear itself.</p>
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		<title>CDC&#8217;s Bold New Guidelines Tell Nurses Treating Ebola to Cover Exposed Skin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2014 15:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If only it wasn't for the Republican budget cuts, the CDC could have told them that months ago.]]></description>
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<p>If only it wasn&#8217;t for the Republican budget cuts,<a href="http://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf/2014/10/ebola_protocols_for_health-car.html"> the CDC could have told nurses to cover all exposed skin months ag</a>o. Also they wouldn&#8217;t have put a care worker showing symptoms on a plane.</p>
<blockquote><p>Revised guidance for health care workers treating Ebola patients will include using protective gear &#8220;with no skin showing,&#8221; a top federal health official said Sunday.</p>
<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said those caring for an Ebola patient in Dallas were left vulnerable because some of their skin was exposed.</p>
<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working on revisions to safety protocols.</p></blockquote>
<p>What exactly needed revising? Is this some new brilliant medical discovery or is the CDC just completely incompetent? Considering the events of the past month, all signs point to complete incompetence.</p>
<p>If we get an Ebola outbreak in this country, then the CDC may finally revise its guidelines to enable a travel ban on Ebolaites entering the US.</p>
<p>Now we have Joe Biden&#8217;s Chief of Staff playing Ebola Czar despite a complete lack of medical experience while our first line of defense at the airport is a questionnaire.</p>
<p>Maybe now that Joe Biden&#8217;s son got booted for cocaine use, we can plug him in as the new Ebola Czar.</p>
<p>Meanwhile the CDC has to keep sending mixed messages, assuring the public that there&#8217;s no need for a travel ban because you can&#8217;t catch Ebola from anything except having Ebola tainted blood injected into your veins while telling care workers that they have to be careful because, shockingly enough, Ebola is highly infectious.</p>
<p>This is what happens when politics trumps science and medicine.</p>
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		<title>Obama: &#8220;We Can&#8217;t Just Cut Ourselves Off from West Africa&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2014 15:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>A lot of people confuse &#8220;Can&#8217;t&#8221; and &#8220;Shouldn&#8217;t&#8221;. Usually <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/18/us-health-ebola-usa-idUSKCN0I61BO20141018">the confusion is deliberate</a>.</p>
<p>We can use a travel ban on Ebola countries to significantly lower our chances of importing Ebola. And affected West African countries are doing so.</p>
<p>What Obama means is that he doesn&#8217;t think we should because he puts a higher priority on open borders than preventing an epidemic. That&#8217;s how we ended up with the border crisis and its attendant infections and diseases. And Obama is staying true to his belief that West Africa matters at least as much, if not more, than America does.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a problem since his job is supposed to be running America, not West Africa.</p>
<blockquote><p>Obama made plain he is not currently planning to give in to demands from some lawmakers for a ban on travelers from the worst-hit countries.</p>
<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t just cut ourselves off from West Africa,&#8221; Obama said in his weekly radio address. &#8220;Trying to seal off an entire region of the world &#8211; if that were even possible &#8211; could actually make the situation worse,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed more than 4,500 people, most of them in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Obama Inc. argument is a strawman that any call for travel restrictions is a call to seal off West Africa. It&#8217;s the typical strawman &#8220;Some say X and some say Y&#8221; that Obama habitually deploys in his speeches.</p>
<blockquote><p>Obama sought to put the extent of the disease in the United States in perspective. &#8220;What we&#8217;re seeing now is not an &#8216;outbreak&#8217; or an &#8216;epidemic&#8217; of Ebola in America,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is a serious disease, but we can&#8217;t give in to hysteria or fear.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s another strawman. No one is saying that there is an Ebola epidemic in America. But there is one in some parts of Africa. And a sensible first step to preventing an Ebola epidemic in Africa is a travel ban.</p>
<p>But it certainly is presumptuous of an administration that goes into full hysterical mode when it suits it, such as with the sequester, now insisting that no one should give in to fear of Ebola.</p>
<p>Being afraid of Ebola is sensible. Pretending that fear of a deadly disease is hysteria is cynical politics.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s New Ebola Czar has No Medical Background</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2014 01:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Good news. Obama appointed an Ebola Czar. If he&#8217;s even half as effective as all our other Czars, the entire country will shortly have Ebola.</p>
<p>Despite already having a number of agencies with billion dollar budgets whose job it was to deal with things like Ebola, we&#8217;re now getting a Czar who will finally appear on television under the banner of the Ebola Czar to explain to everyone why we shouldn&#8217;t worry about Ebola or do crazy things like stop people with Ebola from coming to America.</p>
<p>Because if we stop Ebolaites from coming to America, the Ebola wins.</p>
<p>Maybe if the CDC hadn&#8217;t spent its time and budgets funding drag shows and if the NIH hadn&#8217;t been laser focused on lesbian obesity, they might have actually taken that experimental Ebola treatment at the Pentagon which seems to have saved a few lives and tested it and created a stockpile of it.</p>
<p>But they had more important things to do. Like putting snails on a treadmill. Or any other random stupid grant for some completely useless study.</p>
<p>So now we&#8217;ve got an Ebola czar and no travel ban on Ebola. The Ebola Czar would be far more useful if we stuck him at the airport with a sign telling people with Ebola to go back before entering the United States.</p>
<p>Medicine? Come on, who needs to know medicine to be the Ebola Czar? All you have to do is be <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2014/10/ebola_czar_knows_washington_but_not_medicine">Gore and Biden&#8217;s Chief of Staff.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Ron Klain, President Barack Obama&#8217;s new point man on Ebola, has no medical or public health background&#8230;</p>
<p>An attorney and longtime Democratic operative, Klain served as Vice President Al Gore&#8217;s chief of staff and was a key figure during the 2000 Florida presidential election recount, leading to his portrayal by Spacey in the HBO film &#8220;Recount.&#8221; He previously served under Attorney General Janet Reno in the Clinton administration and later as Biden&#8217;s chief of staff.</p>
<p>During Obama&#8217;s first term, Klain helped spearhead the roughly $800 billion stimulus package in 2009 in response to the financial crisis — a massive, cross-government project that Klain&#8217;s supporters say offers parallels to the challenge he is now undertaking with Ebola.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s a really great analogy. Though possibly Klain&#8217;s supporters don&#8217;t understand its full implications.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Deadly Ebola Lies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 04:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What drives the falsehoods: Ideology or incompetence?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/457317190.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243262" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/457317190.jpg" alt="US-HEALTH-EBOLA-PROTEST" width="260" height="230" /></a>President Obama&#8217;s lies about the communicability of the truly terrifying Ebola virus are recklessly putting American lives at risk.</p>
<p>And yesterday Obama did the unthinkable: he cancelled a precious campaign fundraiser to address an issue of intense interest to the American people. At a photo-opportunity disguised as an emergency cabinet meeting the president did what he always does: he lied and lied and lied.</p>
<p>&#8220;Here’s what we know about Ebola: That it is not like the flu,&#8221; Obama <a href="http://dcist.com/2014/10/video_president_obama_reminds_every.php">told his groupies</a> in government and the media in reassuring tones.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is not airborne. The only way that a person can contract Ebola is by coming into direct contact with the bodily fluids of somebody who is showing symptoms. In other words, if they don’t have symptoms, they’re not contagious.&#8221;</p>
<p>To demonstrate his fearlessness, Obama bragged about canoodling with health care professionals:</p>
<blockquote><p>I want to use myself as an example just so that people have a sense of the science here. I shook hands with, hugged, and kissed not the doctors, but a couple of the nurses at Emory [University Hospital, where Ebola patients are treated] because of the valiant work that they did in treating one of the patients. They followed the protocols, they knew what they were doing, and I felt perfectly safe doing so. And so this is not a situation in which, like a flu, the risks of a rapid spread of the disease are imminent. If we do these protocols properly, if we follow the steps, if we get the information out, then the likelihood of widespread Ebola outbreaks in this country are very, very low.</p></blockquote>
<p>The White House website <a href="http://m.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/10/15/president-obama-provides-update-our-response-ebola-us">repeats</a> Obama&#8217;s lies: &#8220;You can only get the Ebola virus by direct contact with: Body fluids of a person who is sick with or has died from Ebola; Objects contaminated with the virus; Infected animals.&#8221;</p>
<p>My <a href="http://capitalresearch.org">Capital Research Center</a> co-worker, Dr. Steven J. Allen, happens to be an expert on the Ebola virus and he says Obama is not telling the truth. Allen earned his Ph.D. in biodefense from George Mason University&#8217;s College of Science in 2007.</p>
<p>Although Ebola is indeed spread by means of body fluids there&#8217;s a catch.</p>
<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t how long it can last on surfaces or as droplets in the air so when President Obama said earlier this month you can&#8217;t get it from sitting beside someone on a bus that was a total lie,&#8221; Allen said. &#8220;You can get the disease from such a small number of viral particles that logic says you can get it from someone coughing in your vicinity.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, Ebola can spread through the air, contrary to Obama&#8217;s remarks. This helps to explain why health care professionals who value their lives wear hazmat suits that look like astronaut gear when dealing with Ebola-infected patients.</p>
<p>Allen offered a brief primer on Ebola. He explained that currently there are five main varieties of the Ebola virus, but not all five can infect humans. &#8220;What used to be called &#8216;Ebola Zaire&#8217; is now just called Ebola,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When Ebola is unqualified it means Ebola Zaire.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ebola causes patients to bleed throughout their bodies, particularly as it attacks organs such as the liver and spleen and causes them to fail. Even if you survive an encounter with Ebola you can still end up with infertility, arthritis, and other problems related to organ failure.</p>
<p>Some Obama critics like Allen characterize the president&#8217;s behavior as examples of incompetence.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is Obama&#8217;s ideology that makes him incompetent,&#8221; Allen said. &#8220;Public health is supposed to be about fighting infectious disease and protecting people from environmental dangers. We have the Environmental Protection Agency to cover the environment and the Centers for Disease Control is supposed to be for infectious disease.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The Obama people, continuing a long-developing trend, have reinvented public health to mean control over personal behavior such as what you eat, whether you have guns in the house, whether you drive drunk,&#8221; Allen explained.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some of these concerns may be legitimate but the CDC is supposed to be dealing with infectious disease, not personal behavior. Anything else is mission creep and getting away from protecting us as was intended when the CDC was created.&#8221;</p>
<p>Truth-averse left-wingers have been shrieking for days that Republican lawmakers in Congress are somehow to blame for Obama&#8217;s Ebola outbreak because they supposedly cut its budget. It&#8217;s another lie.</p>
<p>&#8220;At $7 billion, the Centers for Disease Control 2014 budget is nearly 200 percent bigger now than it was in 2000,&#8221; according to investigative journalist Michelle Malkin. &#8220;Those evil, stingy Republicans actually approved CDC funding increases in January larger than what President Obama requested.&#8221;</p>
<p>Despite its massive budget, the CDC is barely responding to Ebola and the polio-like enterovirus D68 that was likely brought into the U.S. by the illegal Central American immigrants who have been fast-tracked across the southern border under the administration&#8217;s Democratic voter importation program. An aggressive response to these lethal viruses is out of the question because it might stigmatize or offend members of certain ethnic groups, after all.</p>
<p>Malkin <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2014/10/14/the-centers-for-everything-but-disease-control/">aptly dubs</a> the worse-than-useless CDC as &#8220;The Centers for Everything But Disease Control.&#8221; In her words the CDC is a &#8220;power-hungry busybody brigade of politicized blame-mongers.&#8221; She&#8217;s right.</p>
<p>In the Obama era the CDC has pushed a dizzying array of social-engineering proposals that have nothing to do with disease. These nanny state initiatives include a federal universal motorcycle helmet law, a study of video games and television violence, a &#8220;national action plan&#8221; to prevent accidents in children&#8217;s playgrounds, and studies and campaigns “promoting positive community norms” and “safe, stable, nurturing relationships (SSNRs)” in homes and schools.</p>
<p>But actual success in the real world is of secondary importance to leftists. Only intentions count.</p>
<p>Obama praised several officials including Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco and his perpetually bungling CDC Director Tom Frieden, who has been busy more or less full-time in recent weeks issuing clarifications of his infelicitous, inaccurate statements from the previous day.</p>
<p>Obama said the officials have done an &#8220;outstanding job&#8221; so far, but that with flu season upon us and Department of Homeland Security officials also working on combatting ISIS, &#8220;they also are responsible for a whole bunch of other stuff.&#8221;</p>
<p>Despite all the fabulous work Frieden, who used to labor for then-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on vital projects like limiting the size of soda pop servings, Obama <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/16/politics/obama-ebola-czar/index.html">is warming</a> to the idea of appointing an &#8220;Ebola czar&#8221; to coordinate the government&#8217;s response to the crisis that his boneheaded policies have created.</p>
<p>Frieden has been coming under increasingly heavy political fire in recent days. It doesn&#8217;t help that he has no idea what he&#8217;s doing, Allen said.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The problem with Frieden is he is a prohibitionist zealot who is clueless about the threat we are currently facing. He has no expertise in public health as properly understood.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama may jettison Frieden to reduce the growing political heat he has been feeling as result of the Ebola crisis he has caused.</p>
<p>&#8220;It may make sense for us to have one person &#8230; so that after this initial surge of activity, we can have a more regular process just to make sure that we&#8217;re crossing all the T&#8217;s and dotting all the I&#8217;s going forward,&#8221; Obama said.</p>
<p>Although quarantining infectious patients has been practiced with impressive results ever since the invention of medical science, Obama refuses to halt travel to the U.S. from Ebola-afflicted parts of the world, even from Ebola-devastated Liberia, home of the patient who recently succumbed to the disease at a Texas hospital.</p>
<p>Defying common sense, Obama says a &#8220;flat-out travel ban is not the way to go.&#8221;</p>
<p>Critics point to Obama&#8217;s stubborn refusal to stop residents of Liberia and other affected countries from visiting the U.S. as incompetence or a lack of leadership.</p>
<p>This criticism may be unfair. Obama is more likely acting out of principle.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s neo-Marxist, identity politics-infused worldview holds that America is an imperial power that has victimized other nations merely by being wealthy and powerful. Meanwhile, Obama romanticizes backward countries like those former colonies in Ebola-rich West Africa and views imposing a travel ban on their citizens as adding insult to the grievous injuries that the perpetually guilty United States has inflicted on them.</p>
<div style="color: #222222;">The president has no compunction putting American lives at risk and subordinating their interests to those of West Africans.</div>
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<div>Obama seems to forget that his chief duty under the Constitution is to protect the American people.</div>
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