E-Bola

Noonan:



The administration’s handling of the Ebola crisis continues to be marked by double talk, runaround and gobbledygook. And its logic is worse than its language. In many of its actions, especially its public pronouncements, the government is functioning not as a soother of public anxiety but the cause of it.

An example this week came in the dialogue between Megyn Kelly of Fox News and Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control.

Their conversation focused largely on the government’s refusal to stop travel into the United States by citizens of plague nations. “Why not put a travel ban in place,” Ms. Kelly asked, while we shore up the U.S. public-health system?

Dr. Frieden replied that we now have screening at airports, and “we’ve already recommended that all nonessential travel to these countries be stopped for Americans.” He added: “We’re always looking at ways that we can better protect Americans.”

“But this is one,” Ms. Kelly responded.

Dr. Frieden implied a travel ban would be harmful: “If we do things that are going to make it harder to stop the epidemic there, it’s going to spread to other parts of—”

http://online.wSportsJournalists.com/articles/who-do-they-think-we-are-1413502475

 

Hopefully, Jay Farrar is not scratching his head, wondering why I'm quoting the guy from Caddy Shack.

 

And Frontier Airlines passengers.

 

Vibrations are telling Peggy Noonan that this is a huge threat.

 

Is there really anyone who cares what Peggy Noonan has to say about anything?

 

Honestly, the main reason I quoted her was because I knew I would get a laugh from Dick's response.

And, it didn't take long.

 

The cartoon was pretty sweet too.

 

I think the question that needs to be asked is this: A travel ban, as I understand it, means not one person is allowed to travel in or out of the countries in question.

So what do we do about health care workers who are trying to go to the countries to help affected people? Are there other people who absolutely need to go to these countries to be part of the effort to stop the spread of the virus?

My biggest issue with a travel ban is that comes off as "see how easy that is" approach. But as we've learned many times over, the problem with "see how easy that is" approaches is that they seldom work the way they are supposed to.

With that said, if officials aren't doing enough to explain the issues with a travel ban, they need to be more direct. If, for example, a travel ban means that not one exception can ever be made, then we have to ask ourselves if it's worth it to tell health care workers that they can't go to these West African countries to help affected people and reduce the spread of the virus there.

 

Or come back if they find a way. Or seek treatment here if they become infected while trying to help.

I saw an article saying that African tourism is down in general, things like safari travel. Kinda like not going to California on that wine country vacation because Ebola was reported in Dallas.

 

This is Obama's Benghazi.

 

I thought ISIS was his Benghazi.

 

One can only hope that you have an espresso machine install at Emory or that Dallas hospital's isolation ward. A nice frothy cup of ebola would do you some good.

In other panic news: A small-town Arkansas hospital was locked down over an ebola scare.

Seems a person who had traveled to West Africa was concerned and went to be tested.

http://www.katv.com/story/26805335/ark-hospital-locked-down-due-to-potential-ebola-case