Ebola 2, Obama nothing

Good day all. News came out this morning that a second healthcare worker in Dallas has tested positive for the Ebola virus. This person is now in isolation and being treated. This is the second person to contract Ebola from the late Thomas Duncan.

With this second case, more and more information is coming out on just how badly the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control have utterly botched the protocols for dealing with someone who might have Ebola. Here are some of the details on this second case from ABC News:

A second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who tended to Thomas Eric Duncan as he died of Ebola has tested positive for the lethal virus, and a local official said this morning that additional cases among the hospital’s health care workers is a “very real possibility.”

“The fight against Ebola in Dallas is a two-front fight now,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said, speaking at a morning press conference.

Authorities said they are now tracking 75 people following the second hospital worker’s diagnosis. The unidentified health care worker reported a fever Tuesday and was isolated at the hospital, authorities said.

I hope this second patient a full and speedy recovery. Earlier this week, the first nurse to test positive for Ebola was given a blood transfusion from Dr. Kent Brantly, He contracted Ebola while working in Africa and was given some experimental treatments that worked. His blood has some antibodies that may help the first patient, (I do know her name but I wish to respect her privacy), fight off the virus. The only reason the good Dr. Brantly was able to provide this chance to the first patient is due to their having the same blood type. He has offered to donate more as needed. I don’t know if this will help the second patient through. Hopefully, it will.

What is troubling about all this is the stupefying incompetence of both Barack Obola Obama and the director of the CDC Thomas Frieden. First we have King Putt, taking a little time off from his new job as a golf pro, to remark that the chances of an Ebola outbreak in the United States was very low. (Note the weasel words) Here’s the quote from The Weekly Standard:

First and foremost, I want the American people to know that our experts, here at the CDC and across our government, agree that the chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low. We’ve been taking the necessary precautions, including working with countries in West Africa to increase screening at airports so that someone with the virus doesn’t get on a plane for the United States. In the unlikely event that someone with Ebola does reach our shores, we’ve taken new measures so that we’re prepared here at home. We’re working to help flight crews identify people who are sick, and more labs across our country now have the capacity to quickly test for the virus. We’re working with hospitals to make sure that they are prepared, and to ensure that our doctors, our nurses and our medical staff are trained, are ready, and are able to deal with a possible case safely.

We now know that this was yet another Obama lie. Instead of making sure that doctors, nurses and first responders had both the training and the equipment to handle a possible Ebola patient, we’re now finding out that almost no training has taken place. According to the Washington Post, the National Nurses United is saying that the United States is woefully unprepared.

National Nurses United, the largest union of registered nurses in the country, said that more than 80 percent of nurses the union surveyed report they have not been given adequate training on Ebola. Thirty-six percent say their hospitals do not have sufficient supplies — including face shields and fluid-resistant gowns — to care for an Ebola patient, according the report by National Nurses United, which surveyed more than 1,900 nurses in more than 750 facilities in 46 states. Seventy-six percent of nurses surveyed report their hospitals have not issued adequate policies on how to deal with patients who might be infected with Ebola.

“We are seeing that hospitals are not prepared,” said Bonnie Castillo, director of Registered Nurse Response Network, which is part of National Nurses United. “They are not doing active drilling and education they need to be doing.”

Now granted, this is a union talking and they live for hyperbole. However, they also appear to be correct about the state of preparedness, or lack there of, of hospitals in handling infectious patients, and not just Ebola. Now we have two people with Ebola and potentially dozens of other who might be infected.

Obama and the CDC have had months to prepare for the arrival of Ebola. They’ve also had a tool to either lower the chances of it getting here, or stopping it all together. That would have been to stop all travel between the United States and the hot zones in Africa. Instead we had this incredibly stupid remark from Dr. Frieden on instituting a travel ban. In an opinion piece on Fox News Frieden wrote:

We don’t want to isolate parts of the world, or people who aren’t sick, because that’s going to drive patients with Ebola underground, making it infinitely more difficult to address the outbreak.

That is absolute bovine droppings with a healthy dose of equine droppings thrown in for good measure.

A travel ban is not the right answer. It’s simply not feasible to build a wall – virtual or real – around a community, city, or country. A travel ban would essentially quarantine the more than 22 million people that make up the combined populations of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.

And what is wrong with quarantining anyone from the zones where Ebola is running rampant? That is the first thing you do to stop a plague. Keep people from spreading it, and you do that by keeping them from moving into areas that are clear of the disease. If there had been a travel ban, Thomas Duncan would not have been allowed to come to the United States and the two medical people now infected with Ebola would be at home with their families, not terrified that they could die a slow and very horrible death.

It isn’t just Ebola that’s now running amok in the United States. There are other diseases that haven’t been seen here in decades. Where are they coming from? Just take a look south of the border and you will see people who have these illnesses. Thanks to Il Douche’s throwing open the borders, along with criminals and others crossing the borders, we’re also seeing people who would have been stopped and turned around because they were sick. Barack Obola Obama and Thomas Frieden’s way of dealing with a potential pandemic is “Don’t Worry, Be Happy!

[youtuber youtube=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU’]

I wonder what Der Fubar’s response might be if one of his daughters catches one of these diseases? My guess is he’ll blame G.W. Bush and the Republicans. They’re already trying to do just that with regards to Ebola. Right there is the whole problem. The Republicans, useless as the current bunch are, won’t use this for political purposes, at least not right away. They will want to try and stop the disease first. The Democrats first thought, actually their only thought is “How can we use this to gain more power for ourselves?” The good news is their cunning plan to blame the GOP is failing miserably.

Thatisall

~The Angry Webmaster~

[yasr_visitor_votes size=”medium”]