{"id":56207,"date":"2014-11-04T07:25:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T12:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56207"},"modified":"2014-11-04T06:08:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T11:08:40","slug":"worried-about-an-epidemic-caused-by-dumb-government-tricks-too-late-we-already-have-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56207","title":{"rendered":"Worried About an Epidemic Caused By \u201cDumb Government Tricks\u201d?  Too Late.  We Already Have One."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More precisely: we have one today, courtesy of our\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">clueless DC clown <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/krewe\">krewe<\/a><\/em>\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wonderful Administration\u2019s \u201cwe don&#8217;t need no steenkin&#8217; public health\u201d policies.<\/p>\n<p>We already know the current\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">group of fools and tools calling the shots in DC<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Administration doesn\u2019t want to take effective measures to keep Ebola out of the US.\u00a0 Logically, since Ebola seems to be about 70% fatal that means they\u2019re <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_EBOLA_HOW_BAD_CAN_IT_GET?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2014-11-01-10-25-24\">apparently OK with letting Ebola come to the US and kill maybe 90 or so folks by the end of the year<\/a>.\u00a0 (Projections are for up to 130 additional cases of Ebola in the US by year&#8217;s end under the Administration&#8217;s current &#8220;don&#8217;t worry\/be happy&#8221; Ebola control policies; 70% of 130 is 91.)<\/p>\n<p>Well, that really should be no surprise \u2013 hell, we should have seen it coming. Because\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">those starry-eyed, \u201cWe Are the World\u201d-singing, ideology-driven imbeciles<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0  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.<\/p>\n<p>We all know that\u00a0the \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Marxist morons running the Executive branch<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 current Administration has essentially run an open Southwestern border for months \u2013 \u201cfor the sake of the children\u201d, allegedly.  Well, along with the criminals and other illegals who took advantage . . . another thoroughly unwelcome import seems to have come along for the ride.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called EV-D68. It\u2019s an enterovirus that&#8217;s common in Central America, but which was previously quite rare in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Because of recent Administration policy along our Southwestern border, however, today it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder how that happened, and what it\u2019s done? Here\u2019s an excerpt from a <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/\">DailyCaller<\/a> article on the subject:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The deadly EV-D68 enterovirus epidemic, which struck thousands of kids this fall, was likely propelled through America by President Barack Obama\u2019s decision to allow tens of thousands of Central Americans across the Texas border, according to a growing body of genetic and statistical evidence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So far, that virus has been found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/non-polio-enterovirus\/outbreaks\/EV-D68-outbreaks.html\">nine people<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 including at least three American kids \u2014 who died from illness. It has\u00a0apparently inflicted unprecedented polio-like paralysis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/29\/us\/cause-of-childrens-paralysis-remains-unclear.html\">in roughly 50 kids<\/a>, 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, you read that correctly:  thousands sickened,  hundreds seriously ill, about <em><strong>50<\/strong><\/em> paralyzed, and <em><strong>9<\/strong><\/em> dead \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a freaking epidemic to me.\u00a0 Hell, it&#8217;s probably established and endemic in the US now.<\/p>\n<p>And the &#8220;best&#8221; part?  <em>It was a completely preventable epidemic<\/em>.\u00a0 It was caused by a handful of politically-driven, manifestly stupid policy decisions &#8211; decisions that gave higher priority to helping non-citizens break US law than enforcing US law or protecting the nation.<\/p>\n<p>You should go and read <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/10\/31\/obamas-border-policy-fueled-epidemic-evidence-shows\/\">the full DailyCaller article<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s fairly long, so budget time accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m guessing the article will p!ss you off royally.\u00a0 It damn well should.\u00a0 And after reading it, perhaps the Administration\u2019s seeming lack of concern about Ebola will make a bit more sense.<\/p>\n<p>Why?  Well, for what it&#8217;s worth:  reading the DailyCaller article, it appears that the CDC seems to be doing it&#8217;s best to &#8220;stonewall&#8221; inquiries regarding technical data and analysis about the origins of current EV-D68 epidemic, and possibly also downplay its severity.  They don&#8217;t seem to want to answer reasonable questions, and almost seem to be making difficult for 3rd parties to obtain much information about what&#8217;s going on.  &#8220;Deliberately uncooperative&#8221; is the phrase that comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p>To me, that kinda sounds quite familiar &#8211; and says much.  But maybe that&#8217;s just me.  Interpret the situation as you see fit personally; come to your own conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;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 &#8220;why&#8221; behind their actions in each case.\u00a0 And, bluntly:  both of those possibilities absolutely reek.<\/p>\n<p>Best case, the Administration is acting as it has because they&#8217;re utterly incompetent and clueless &#8211; so incompetent and clueless that they <em>literally don&#8217;t realize<\/em> their policies are endangering the US public.\u00a0 Or maybe they just are too stupid to believe reality when it smacks them in the face.  Either works.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the best case.  <\/p>\n<p>Worst case?\u00a0 Worst case is that they know full well they&#8217;re endangering the public.\u00a0 But in spite of that knowledge, they&#8217;re going ahead anyway &#8211; because they just don\u2019t 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 &#8211; so it&#8217;s  &#8220;full speed ahead&#8221;.  A few unnecessary innocent corpses here and there are just &#8220;the cost of doing business&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, I could believe either of the &#8220;best case&#8221; options above.\u00a0 But after now seeing two recent, similar examples of this Administration&#8217;s blatant disregard of public health and safety to push their political agenda, I can&#8217;t really say I can believe that any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More precisely: we have one today, courtesy of our\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0clueless DC clown krewe\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wonderful Administration\u2019s \u201cwe &hellip; <a title=\"Worried About an Epidemic Caused By \u201cDumb Government Tricks\u201d?  Too Late.  We Already Have One.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56207\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Worried About an Epidemic Caused By \u201cDumb Government Tricks\u201d?  Too Late.  We Already Have One.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220,213,46,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-barack-obama","category-government-incompetence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}