Count the Lies: CDC’s Frieden, Obama, Still Lying About Ebola and Effective Public Health Practices; They Want to Spread Ebola All Over the Country

 

CDC Director Tom Frieden acts more like a PR man than a doctor 

oldtexgal Wrote: 1 hour ago (7:06 PM)

So tired of being BS-ed. I live probably 3 miles from Presbyterian here in Dallas. I'm not "panicked", but just want to see some competence and hear some truth.

It is reprehensible that the family of this poor man has been quarantined in their apartment with bags of the soiled, infected, linen. We pay hundreds of millions to the CDC, and there are not HAZMAT teams ready for such tasks? Really? The lame excuse was that it was hard to find local contractors to take the job? Really? It will be a miracle if his family does not come down with ebola!

First the honchos from the CDC and local health department said there were about 5 at risk, then went on to explain their widen circles of tracing contacts. Now there are nearly 100! FIVE of the children in that apartment went on to local schools! Really? One talking head says it is only communicable through contact with bodily fluids. Hello! Saliva is a bodily fluid. When asked about a sneeze, this idiot replied that ebola victims don't sneeze. STOP IT! Do your job and tell the truth! We can deal with it.

I'm far more concerned about the respiratory virus, killing and crippling children. It mysteriously appeared shortly after the influx of "uncompanied children" at our southern border. The CDC actually DID send up flags and concerns about these people not being health screened, but this stupid Administration packed 'em up, and bussed them all over the country to "relatives" and friends. Local schools had to admit them without paperwork, vaccination and health information, etc., and now the Endovirus, common in Honduras and San Salvador, is spreading rapidly HERE!

The CDC needs to stop funding studies on marriage, climate change, and hundreds of mission-creep studies, and focus resources on protecting the American people, who finance their efforts!
 

CDC Director Doubles Down on Lack of Flight Restrictions from Ebola Stricken Countries
By Katie Pavlich |
Oct 03, 2014
Town Hall

In light of the first case of Ebola in the United States emerging earlier this week after Thomas Duncan traveled to and from the country of Liberia to attend a funeral (and then knowing he was infected, lied on a medical form before hopping on a flight back), many people are asking why flight bans or restrictions to Ebola stricken countries have not been put in place.
On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest essentially argued that because America has the ability to treat the disease, that it is unnecessary to implement travel restrictions in order to prevent it from coming here.

Speaking from the White House Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest dodged questions about why flights from countries with Ebola outbreaks are still being accepted to the United States. He did not detail any future plans to stop flights from those countries, or to track connections through Europe to those countries, despite the first case of Ebola showing up in the U.S. after a Liberian man went to a funeral in West Africa and then returned home [sic] to Dallas.

In his justification of the administration continuing to allow flights, Earnest argued that because people carrying Ebola don't have symptoms when they get on planes, there isn't a need to limit travel.
 

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest 

Earnest said Ebola will be handled through "rigorously applying medical procedures recommended by the Centers for Disease Control."

Now, CDC Director Tom Frieden is doubling down on the Obama administration's refusal to implement travel restrictions, arguing shutting down borders to Ebola stricken countries could make the situation worse and won't necessarily stop the deadly disease from spreading. What?
"I wish we could get to zero risk by sealing off the border. But we can’t. [Lie.] The only way we are going to get to zero risk in this country is by controlling it in Africa. [Lie.] Until that happens, Americans may come back with Ebola. Other people who have a right to return or a visa to enter may come back. [Lie.] People will go to third countries and come from there. [Irrelevant—their passports will be stamped in Liberia. Besides, since when is it an argument against safeguarding the public that someone may game the system?] Sealing them off – first off won’t work. [Lie.] Second off, it will backfire. [Lie.] Because if we can’t get help in there, then we’re not going to be able to stop the outbreak [Lie.] and ultimately we will end up at higher risk, not lower risk," he said. [Lie.]
First, nobody is arguing flights carrying medical personnel should be banned in and out of West Africa. People who argue for flight restrictions are referring to flights that allow anyone from the U.S. to get on a plane and head to Liberia or other countries and then returning after filling out a less than effective medical screening form. The man with the case of Ebola in Dallas isn't a medical worker, he went over to attend a funeral and after helping a woman sick with the disease and [sic] came back to the U.S. anyway. Second, France, England and a slew of Africa [sic] countries have either restricted travel or sealed off borders to prevent the disease from spreading.
So how exactly is the CDC screening for Ebola before people leave West Africa for the U.S.? What preventative measures are being taken? As he said in the clip above, "We are doing very good temperature screening. [N.S.: That’s ridiculous. He has to know that unless someone is on his deathbed, he can fool the temperature screening with aspirin.] That is, where it is going to be the most efficient. That is where they have a few hundred people leaving. We're using approved devices [that reportedly don’t work, or are unreliable], trained staff [Who? Africans?] checking every person who is leaving each of the three countries to see if they have a fever. [If you] screen people here [You don’t “screen” people, you stop them in their tracks.], instead of a few hundred it would be a few hundred thousand [no, it would be zero.], it would be inaccurate [Lie.]. And this is the way that we think we're going to be most effective at keeping people who are having a fever from getting on planes."
There's just one huge problem with that. People can have Ebola and not show symptoms for days, just as the man in Dallas did. A reminder of the timeline.
According to the CDC, the patient being treated came back from Liberia after attending a funeral on September 19. The patient's symptoms started on September 24 and hospitalization began on September 28 in Dallas. Several family members to the patient may have been exposed. Because the patient did not get sick until four days after getting off the airplane, nobody who flew with the patient is at risk.
And finally, while the CDC says the other passengers on the same planes as Duncan were at no risk of catching the disease because he wasn't showing symptoms, the agency and airline are frantically trying to track down all of the passengers who were on those planes...for some reason.