E-Bola

Here's Lisa from Oct 3rd briefing:

"Finally, I want to emphasize that the United States is prepared to deal with this crisis both at home and in the region. Every Ebola outbreak over the past 40 years has been stopped. We know how to do this and we will do it again. With America’s leadership, I am confident, and President Obama is confident, that this epidemic will also be stopped."

Also from same briefing - Sec Burwell of HHS:

"In Dallas, the public health system is now handling the case with the protocols that we know control this disease. We recognize the concern that even a single case of Ebola creates on our shores. But we have the public health systems and the public health providers in place to contain the spread of this disease."

 

We need them and not a surgeon general?

 

Of all the dumb-ass shit I've ever read on this message board, the carping (mostly from the left but a bit from the right) vis-a-vis a "confirmed" Surgeon General is right up there at the top. Do y'all have a clue as to what the Surgeon General actually does? Do y'all even know that we have an acting Surgeon General? And that having an "acting" Surgeon General for a substantial period of time is absolutely not a novel thing?

On edit: Sorry, SnarkShark ... that wasn't necessarily directed at you. Timing makes it look so, but that isn't the case.

 

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No worries. I don't think it's essential, but I think having a permanent surgeon general could help. I find it hypocritical for people to criticize the president, but not the congress for delaying this appointment for purely political reasons.

That being said, I am probably more on the liberal side, but I also didn't vote for any of these assholes in office. The people I vote for never win - usually Green, Libertarian or independents.

 

He's the one who brought up the surgeon general, doc.
All I have asked is the president exercise some executive authority.
The kind he likes to wield when he's -not- entitled to it, and then we get a crisis that warrants action and he sits on his bony ass (when he's not chasing a little white ball around).

 

Possible case admitted to Yale New Haven
http://www.courant.com/health/hc-yale-new-haven-hospital-1017-20141016-story.html

Research student who just returned from Liberia.

 

SEND THEM BACK

 

Clearly Obama needs to throw away the Ronald Reagan playbook after Ronnie was responsible for the 241 Marines murdered in Beirut in 1983. If Obama keeps this up we'll be selling arms to Venzuela to support the Mullahs in Iran.

 

Yeah, yeah, yeah ... keeping playing that tune. Adds about as much to the conversation as a dozen refrains of your sobriquet.

 

Would you say that Ebola is Obama's Katrina?

 

I'm going to feel like the little kid raising his hand in the back of the room, but I do have a non-responsibility question to ask.
At what point does this really start impacting our every day lives? I mean the day to day panic, and not just the raised eyebrow and the "Lord, I hope that doesn't make it HERE" concern.
Reason I ask is because I caught myself doing this yesterday. Southwest Airlines is having a super cheap airfare sale, and I was ready to jump on one of them for a trip to Florida in January. And then I started thinking about all this, and how far away that is, and decided to hold off based on the fear that the shit could really hit the fan in the next three months.
I felt like a bit of a fool for doing it, but it's still something in the back of my mind. I wonder how many other people are starting to make similar decisions -- and how the upcoming holiday travel season might ramp this thing up or be some sort of barometer for where we are on slowing its spread.