Author: Hondo

More precisely: we have one today, courtesy of our    clueless DC clown krewe’s     wonderful Administration’s “we don’t need no steenkin’ public health” policies.

We already know the current     group of fools and tools calling the shots in DC     Administration doesn’t want to take effective measures to keep Ebola out of the US.  Logically, since Ebola seems to be about 70% fatal that means they’re apparently OK with letting Ebola come to the US and kill maybe 90 or so folks by the end of the year.  (Projections are for up to 130 additional cases of Ebola in the US by year’s end under the Administration’s current “don’t worry/be happy” Ebola control policies; 70% of 130 is 91.)

Well, that really should be no surprise – hell, we should have seen it coming. Because      those starry-eyed, “We Are the World”-singing, ideology-driven imbeciles     the current Administration is already responsible for the needless deaths via imported disease of several US children; the paralysis of dozens of others; and hundreds ending up seriously ill in hospital emergency rooms and/or ICUs due to their asinine policies.

We all know that the     Marxist morons running the Executive branch     current Administration has essentially run an open Southwestern border for months – “for the sake of the children”, allegedly. Well, along with the criminals and other illegals who took advantage . . . another thoroughly unwelcome import seems to have come along for the ride.

It’s called EV-D68. It’s an enterovirus that’s common in Central America, but which was previously quite rare in the US.

Because of recent Administration policy along our Southwestern border, however, today it’s no longer rare in the US. In fact, today the US appears to be smack-dab in the middle of a full-blown epidemic of EV-D68.

Wonder how that happened, and what it’s done? Here’s an excerpt from a DailyCaller article on the subject:

The deadly EV-D68 enterovirus epidemic, which struck thousands of kids this fall, was likely propelled through America by President Barack Obama’s decision to allow tens of thousands of Central Americans across the Texas border, according to a growing body of genetic and statistical evidence.

. . .

So far, that virus has been found in nine people — including at least three American kids — who died from illness. It has apparently inflicted unprecedented polio-like paralysis in roughly 50 kids, and it has put hundreds of young American kids into hospital emergency wards and intensive care units throughout more than 40 states. Most of the dead have not been publicly identified.

Yeah, you read that correctly: thousands sickened, hundreds seriously ill, about 50 paralyzed, and 9 dead – so far. In just a few months, the disease has already spread across more than 40 states (47, to be precise). And more cases are certain to appear in the future.

Sounds like a freaking epidemic to me.  Hell, it’s probably established and endemic in the US now.

And the “best” part? It was a completely preventable epidemic.  It was caused by a handful of politically-driven, manifestly stupid policy decisions – decisions that gave higher priority to helping non-citizens break US law than enforcing US law or protecting the nation.

You should go and read the full DailyCaller article.  It’s fairly long, so budget time accordingly.

I’m guessing the article will p!ss you off royally.  It damn well should.  And after reading it, perhaps the Administration’s seeming lack of concern about Ebola will make a bit more sense.

Why? Well, for what it’s worth: reading the DailyCaller article, it appears that the CDC seems to be doing it’s best to “stonewall” inquiries regarding technical data and analysis about the origins of current EV-D68 epidemic, and possibly also downplay its severity. They don’t seem to want to answer reasonable questions, and almost seem to be making difficult for 3rd parties to obtain much information about what’s going on. “Deliberately uncooperative” is the phrase that comes to mind.

To me, that kinda sounds quite familiar – and says much. But maybe that’s just me. Interpret the situation as you see fit personally; come to your own conclusions.

But here’s my take: after seeing how the Administration handled EV-D68 and is handling Ebola, there are really only two possibilities that come to mind that plausibly explain the “why” behind their actions in each case.  And, bluntly: both of those possibilities absolutely reek.

Best case, the Administration is acting as it has because they’re utterly incompetent and clueless – so incompetent and clueless that they literally don’t realize their policies are endangering the US public.  Or maybe they just are too stupid to believe reality when it smacks them in the face. Either works.

That’s the best case.

Worst case?  Worst case is that they know full well they’re endangering the public.  But in spite of that knowledge, they’re going ahead anyway – because they just don’t give a sh!t that their asinine, politically-driven policies which deny reality are needlessly costing US citizens their lives. To them, playing politics is far more important than protecting public health and safety – so it’s “full speed ahead”. A few unnecessary innocent corpses here and there are just “the cost of doing business”.

Previously, I could believe either of the “best case” options above.  But after now seeing two recent, similar examples of this Administration’s blatant disregard of public health and safety to push their political agenda, I can’t really say I can believe that any more.

Here ya go. Try not to blow a gasket at the utter stupidity.

• An idiot judge in Maine ruled against allowing the State of Maine to quarantine that Narcissistic Ditz and Special Little Snowflake of a nurse who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in West Africa.

• At the same time, it’s been reported that Ditzy’s roommate in Africa appears to have contracted Ebola.

• While in another example of Ditzy being Ditzy, that Narcissist Ditz and Special Little Snowflake nurse in Maine has now stated that she believes Ebola quarantines to be an “abundance of politics”.  (sigh)  You know, you’d think a nurse would know at least a little something about protecting the public from deadly and incurable diseases for which no vaccine exists.  Oh, wait – I forgot.  She’s “special”, so those measures simply don’t apply to her.  Her convenience is more important than protecting the public.

• As I previously wrote here at TAH: a few days ago, CDC admitted that droplets from a sneeze could spread Ebola.  However, not long afterwards they abruptly did an about-face and replaced that admission on their web site with a “don’t worry, be happy” version downplaying that fact – apparently in order to hide politically inconvenient truth from the general public.

(Don’t believe me? Look here for their original admission from 29 October – which has now vanished from their site. Look here for the watered-down version that replaced it, dated 1 November. The original version appears to have vanished from the CDC website sometime on or after 31 October, probably on 1 November  – but not before a copy was archived for posterity on 31 October. [smile]

And please, libidiots: spare me those transparently bogus “The document was revised to make it more accurate” claims.  IMO that claim’s very obviously bullsh!t, and anyone with even two working brain cells can see it’s bullsh!t. It was revised because the original version was obviously written by someone who actually cares more about protecting the public than playing politics – and thus contradicted the Administration’s desired “fairy tale with a happy ending” story now found in the new version.)

• However, at the same time WHO is recommending sneeze protection as appropriate for those around Ebola sufferers. You know, WHO has been directly managing the efforts to contain Ebola in West Africa for a while. Maybe they know a thing or two about how Ebola really spreads.  And they don’t seem interested in hiding the truth for political reasons, either.

• Of course the WHO isn’t exactly the poster child for accuracy and transparency concerning the West African Ebola Outbreak, either. Last Friday (31 October), it revised the outbreak fatality and total case figures from Guinea substantially downward – due ostensibly to removal of “suspected cases” from the totals.  Total casualty figures for the outbreak are now set at 4,951 dead and 13,567 total cases to date – which are estimated to be only 40% of the true total.  Now, while WHO doesn’t have any real reason to exclude suspected cases, the government of Guinea – who reports the totals – certainly might have an agenda here (make it appear as if things are under control, and thus ease travel and trade restrictions). Given that, plus the known massive degree of under-reporting of Ebola cases to date during this outbreak, pardon me if I take that “removal of suspected cases” rationale for lowering the numbers with a HUGE grain of salt.  Figuratively speaking, of course.

• FEMA also is currently conducting a pandemic exercise in NYC and northern NJ. Kinda makes one wonder, eh? Especially after that little incident with our “loose cannon” and self-appointed demigod doctor in NYC who apparently thought he was Superman – and found out the hard way he wasn’t.

• CDC has reportedly announced its intent to procure PPE – and other items, including body bags – for use during the current Ebola outbreak. And the Pentagon is funding preclinical trials of Ebola vaccine produced by Protectus Biosciences.  These last two were noted on Infowars.com here and here, of course with the typical Infowars breathless, conspiracy-oriented spin. But even blind squirrels occasionally find a walnut. (I’ve chosen to link here to the actual source announcements first.  Look at the latter two links if you want to see Infowars’ conspiracy-theory-laden take on them.)

• Remember those airport screenings the Administration said would protect us from importing Ebola without imposing a ban on travel to the US from the outbreak area? Studies of past similar efforts show exactly what many experts predicted before we even began the program:  they’re essentially worthless, “for show only” exercises when it comes to actually identifying people with latent infectious diseases having similar symptoms.  But “that’s our      story      policy and we’re sticking to it.”

• Canada’s leaders have proved they’re not utterly naive PC fools. They’ve followed Australia’s lead and suspended entry to Canada for people who’d been in a nation with widespread Ebola outbreaks during the past 3 months. I guess Canadian leaders still realize that their first responsibility is to, you know, protect their own public first.  Maybe some folks in the current Administration should take notes. (Predictably, folks in Sierra Leone aren’t pleased, calling the decision “discriminatory”.  No, dipsticks – it’s called “erring on the side of caution”.  Everyone should be doing the same.)

• Hell, even Emmental-Boi and Supreme Idiot ND:tBF and his moronic geriatric cronies in Norkland have the sense to know that you don’t take any chances whatsoever when it comes to Ebola. They’ve clamped down harder than Canada and Australia.

• Spanish intel reportedly has intercepted Jihadist electronic talk about using Ebola as a weapon. Well, OK.  However, given what I’ve seen regarding the competence of the vast majority of those goat- and/or donkey-fornicating “geniuses” I don’t plan on losing any sleep over this.  Provided here FYI, since YMMV.

• A major US nurses’ union apparently plans strikes to protest of the “lack of adequate protective gear” for nurses caring for Ebola patients. Well, that’s their stated reason. I suspect the real reason may be that the union in question is in the middle of acrimonious negotiations with Kaiser Permanente in California regarding a new contract, and that this stated rationale for striking is actually little more than a “timely justification of convenience” that the nurses’ union thinks will play well in the press.  But I could be wrong.

• The aide group MSF says that the Sierra Leone Ebola outbreak is much worse than is being reported. Yeah?  OK, now tell us something we didn’t already know. Even if MSF has an obvious agenda and is a group of freaking idiots who clearly must have more money than they can use (they actually turned down a donation of funds worth roughly $2M from the Australian government a few weeks ago for political reasons), here they’re simply telling us something that anyone who’s been following this situation closely already knows all too well.

And, lastly:

• Models predict up to 130 US Ebola cases in US by end of year if current policies remain unchanged. That’s the high-end, worst-case estimate; the best case estimates say we should expect one or two more.  Reality will likely be somewhere between the two – but could theoretically be better or worse if we get really lucky or unlucky.  Since this strain of Ebola’s fatality rate seems to be around 70%, I guess that means the current Administration is OK with seeing 90 people or so in the US die a horrible, eminently preventable death for no other reason than order to show our “solidarity with the people of West Africa” (or some other such      old-style Marxist      manifestly idiotic      outdated Communist       naive but Politically Correct      One World Propaganda      starry-eyed, nebulous, feelgood sound-bite claptrap).

Sheesh.  Looks to me like the late Robert A. Heinlein was a bit off in his estimated time-frame for the “Crazy Years”.  Obviously they’re still ongoing.

A final parting thought for today.  A TAH reader asked me in a private email if I’d noticed what follows.  Yeah, I had; I though it was pretty damn obvious, so I haven’t mentioned it in any articles here to date. But maybe it’s not as obvious as I thought.

It seems to me that the     clueless DC clown krewe      current Administration seems to be taking the position regarding the West African Ebola Outbreak that “it’s better to fight Ebola overseas so we don’t have to fight it here”.  Well, my leftist “brethren”, pray tell: why in the hell was fighting overseas rather than here in the US such a horrible idea when former President Bush adopted it as our strategy for fighting Islamic terrorism roughly a decade ago?

 . . .

I guess that’s all for today.  Might want to check your trouser legs again, though.  The weather looks to be fairly clear here, so if your trousers are wet . . . .

(Hat-tip to Drudge for bringing most of the above links to my attention.)