I'm not worried about Ebola BUT...
(From a reply elsewhere wherein All-hail-Obama-NPR downplayed Ebola risk)
I'll set aside the increasing (though incredibly low) possibility of it going airborne (likely meaning unimaginable death tolls) with more victims.
I think NPR is being misleading (can't be!). And I remain concerned (not of getting it, but of Americans dying) for these reasons.
The CDC Director deliberately inserted propagandist slogans sympathetic to this administration in his press conference.
http://melvin-udall.livejournal.com/1611769.html
The CDC press conference failed to mention that the hospital received an African presenting with flu symptoms and sent him home - something that should be communicated as a cautionary tell at a press conference.
The Obama administration refuses to close flights from areas with Ebola despite having no problem doing so with Israel recently.
The CDC continues to imply it requires direct contact with a victim when their own site contradicts that.
The page on ebola. Note that they say low risk with a footnote, that then indicates low risk with ebola means some risk. Clarity!
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/case-definition.html
That footnote leads to this followup page where the options are high, some, or no risk.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/monitoring-and-movement-of-persons-with-exposure.html
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization says;
"Hand hygiene is essential and should be performed: [...]
after touching (even potentially) contaminated surfaces, items, or equipment ***in the patient’s surroundings***; and"
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/faq-ebola/en/
Back to CDC Director, Dr. 'Lean Forward", who says no risk unless touching and by touching he means three feet. (By that guideline think of all the women I've inappropriately 'touched'! We are in a "rape culture"!) Clarity! It's science!
http://twitchy.com/2014/10/01/bombshell-watch-cdc-director-deny-then-admit-that-ebola-can-be-spread-by-casual-contact-video/
On the one hand, I'm not particularly worried about an Ebola outbreak in the US. It is difficult to transmit.
On the other hand, the CDC Director is overtly partisan and either dangerously incompetent or dishonest, Ebola in the US serves a couple of leftist agendas (primarily pre-election distraction), and the administration (along with the CDC) seems to be working hard to screw this up or to encourage an outbreak.
I'll set aside the increasing (though incredibly low) possibility of it going airborne (likely meaning unimaginable death tolls) with more victims.
I think NPR is being misleading (can't be!). And I remain concerned (not of getting it, but of Americans dying) for these reasons.
The CDC Director deliberately inserted propagandist slogans sympathetic to this administration in his press conference.
http://melvin-udall.livejournal.com/1611769.html
The CDC press conference failed to mention that the hospital received an African presenting with flu symptoms and sent him home - something that should be communicated as a cautionary tell at a press conference.
The Obama administration refuses to close flights from areas with Ebola despite having no problem doing so with Israel recently.
The CDC continues to imply it requires direct contact with a victim when their own site contradicts that.
The page on ebola. Note that they say low risk with a footnote, that then indicates low risk with ebola means some risk. Clarity!
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/case-definition.html
That footnote leads to this followup page where the options are high, some, or no risk.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/monitoring-and-movement-of-persons-with-exposure.html
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization says;
"Hand hygiene is essential and should be performed: [...]
after touching (even potentially) contaminated surfaces, items, or equipment ***in the patient’s surroundings***; and"
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/faq-ebola/en/
Back to CDC Director, Dr. 'Lean Forward", who says no risk unless touching and by touching he means three feet. (By that guideline think of all the women I've inappropriately 'touched'! We are in a "rape culture"!) Clarity! It's science!
http://twitchy.com/2014/10/01/bombshell-watch-cdc-director-deny-then-admit-that-ebola-can-be-spread-by-casual-contact-video/
On the one hand, I'm not particularly worried about an Ebola outbreak in the US. It is difficult to transmit.
On the other hand, the CDC Director is overtly partisan and either dangerously incompetent or dishonest, Ebola in the US serves a couple of leftist agendas (primarily pre-election distraction), and the administration (along with the CDC) seems to be working hard to screw this up or to encourage an outbreak.