Thursday, October 2, 2014

Obama Refuses to Implement Ebola Travel Restrictions

Obama Refuses to Implement Ebola Travel Restrictions

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/white-house-refuses-to-implement-ebola-travel-restrictions/

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.

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Sure why bother to stop people with a deadly contagious disease from entering the country? Obama trashed restrictions of entrees with AIDS. Why draw the line at Ebola?

Maybe if they were Republicans, he would have checkpoints in place.
The White House on Wednesday said stricter travel restrictions weren’t necessary in the wake of the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States.
“We are confident that the sophisticated medical infrastructure that exists in the United States can prevent the wide spread of Ebola,” said White House press secretary Josh Earnest.
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced that a man who flew from Liberia to Dallas had contracted the Ebola virus, which has killed more than 3,000 people in West Africa.
Republicans, in particular, have argued for tougher screening measures at ports of entry to ensure more Ebola victims don’t reach the United States.
Health officials in Texas said Wednesday that the Ebola patient, identified by the Associated Press as Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national, came in contact with between 12 and 18 people. Health officials are now monitoring schoolchildren they believe could have been exposed to the virus.
“It is our view that we have the medical infrastructure that is necessary to try to treat this individual that does have Ebola in a way that doesn’t pose a significant risk to other patients in the hospital, to the doctors and nurses who will be caring for that individual — and certainly doesn’t pose a significant risk to the broader community,” Earnest said.
Sure. Let’s wait for the epidemic to begin and then rely on ObamaCare to save us all.

And if that doesn’t work, he really will be known as President Ebola.
Up to 100 people were in contact with the Dallas Ebola patient at some point, Texas health officials said today, marking a significant jump from the 18 people that authorities had said may have been exposed to the deadly virus.
The health officials said around 100 people may have come into contact with Mr Duncan. Earlier, they had put the figure at up to 18, including five children.
Some parents have temporarily removed their children from Dallas schools after learning that the five students may have come into contact with the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S.
One senior at Conrad High School, Dante Gonzalez, told Dallas News: ‘Nobody is touching each other. Nobody is shaking hands. Everyone is saying, ”Get away from me; Ebola is going around the school.”
One neighbor, Mesud Osmanovic, told NBC that Mr Duncan was ‘throwing up all over the place’ outside the apartment block as he was helped into an ambulance while his hysterical family looked on.

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