How Many U.S. Cities Need An Ebola Case Before Preventative Measures Are Taken?
Brian Joondeph
TheDailyCaller.com
10/03/2014
Should we be worried about Ebola? That’s the question on the minds of many Americans given the first documented case on U.S. soil this week. And now there is a second possible case, someone having contact with Thomas Duncan, the first U.S. case of Ebola.
Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reassures us, “I have no doubt that we’ll stop this in its tracks in the U.S.” President Obama also told us two weeks ago that “the chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low.”
Tell that to the 100 Texans who had contact with Thomas Duncan and are now being monitored or held in isolation. Or to the panicked parents keeping their children home from school. Or to those living near Mr. Duncan. After showing disease symptoms, Mr. Duncan, “Was seen vomiting on the ground outside an apartment complex.” According to the CDC, “Under ideal conditions Ebola virus could remain active for up to six days.”
What’s more ideal than the streets and sewers of warm and humid Dallas, where the vomit was likely flushed?
As I wrote two months ago, the CDC has a history of downplaying risk, whether from anthrax or HIV/AIDS. So it’s no surprise that the natural inclination of Americans is to mistrust the promises of another agency. Don’t forget that there was, “not smidgen of corruption at the IRS” and that “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” The government and its mouthpieces frequently say what they think we the people want to hear, not what we need to hear.
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