We must throw the CDC under the bus! The President has to go into the CDC and give them all a stern talking to! The sky is falling! Why isn't the President banning flights from west Africa?!? Why aren't people being put into 21 day detention! Why why why!

Well for starters the CDC made too many assumptions about this disease. The head of the CDCS first said no chance of ebola coming to u.s. , then it became slight chance, then it became unlikely, etc. the he said we would stop it in its tracks and that all hospitals can handle Ebola patients.
Putting people into isolation after become exposed to the virus is not a over reaction especially for people who are at high risk such as people treating them, look how may have been stricken by the disease.

This is too serious a disease that can not be allowed to gain traction into the regular population.

Obama and the CDC stumbled very badly on this one.

Mandatory isolation and suspending visas is not an overreaction , we need to slow the spread of the virus so we can fight it there.

How can we effectively fight it there if we are fighting the spread of it here?

The Ebola Zaire strain is one of the most lethal and virulent forms of the disease.

You can make light of it if you want too but this disease is a serious threat to the world.

If it enters into more third world countries such as India slums and South America, we will be in serious trouble until a vaccine or effective treatment is found on a large scale.

Obama has lead from behind on this issue and is still leading from behind.

and so I say you are.

You win Fear Post of the Morning........LOL.

Can't you do better than that?

Good post.

Those are RW talking points and they have no place on DU, being baldfaced LIES.

You know who stumbled?

TEXASS stumbled.
Dallass stumbled.
Texas Health Presbyterian stumbled.
Every person in a position of responsibility at THP stumbled.
Physicians and nurses at THP stumbled.

CDC can only provide guidance and information and advice. States are free to completely disregard everything CDC says, and Texass chose to do exactly that.

not telling us? Ever thought of that?

How dare a doctor or nurse show compassion and sacrifice to help the Ebola crisis in West Africa and then spread this plague to America. Who do they think they are, Cubans?

You see, I do not believe in the science, this one time, I do not believe the President, this one time, and although I am a liberal and support science and the President, on this one I am going with the TV talking heads and buying another bed to hide under.

But they are high risk group tha needs to be isolated until the incubation period is over. Why in the hell would they even want to take a chanceof exposing their family or friends or public at large? Self isolation has proven to be ineffective.

This is common sense stuff.

Not an OMG irrational over recation

Obama and the CDC have downplayed the risks and the threat of this disease.

do you believe that a lie?

Do you think the President is lying or somehow in error? What part of the science do you not believe in? Why do you think YOU will get Ebola, if it turns into an uncontrolled plague killing millions in this 365 million person nation?

The President has the best epidemiologist and viral experts in the world to advise him, who do you have?

You must all believe that to be so panicky...all righty then...free country...panic away....refuse the advise of your President....

Fearbola is the plague, and it has become airborne thanks to the media and liberal science deniers like you. Sir.

Nice post!

"the politicizing of Ebola" if President Obama reminded the nation that his choice for Surgeon General (America's "top doc&quot has been denied by obstructionists in the g.o.p.?
If this were not the case then the President could allow his Surgeon General to deal with this instead of himself.
There are so many domestic issues (disenfranchised voters,extreme wealth inequality, etc..) that Americans want and need our President to confront that, IMO, every opportunity to expose obstructionism should be brought to the public's attention.

Ten days before the November 4 election and Pres. Obama is not trumpeting an unemployment rate under six percent or federal deficits that have been cut in half or gasoline prices at new lows or a stock market at new highs.

He gave into the infotainment hypermedia culture of fear mongering and spent his weekly talk discussing the non-crisis of ebola.

Four minutes about ebola -- what a motivator for Democrats, liberals and progressives to get out and vote -- not.
Four minutes gone that could have been used to help persuade undecided and independent voters to support successful policies.

But it is a perceived crisis (especially given the response by Cuomo and Christie), so he has to address it with the facts.

Besides, it doesn't seem like he missed some critical pre-election political opportunity:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2014/07/06/president-obama-weekly-radio-address-anachronism-that-endures/2xtr0v07pKPHcuqk6QvckN/story.html?rss_id=Top-GNP

<<While historians and current White House officials fiercely defend this packaged political ritual, there is evidence that the address has faded into near-irrelevance. It generates far less news coverage than it did when it began three decades ago, and it is so under the radar that no one is tracking its listenership — or even which stations are carrying it.>>

Nonsense. It is a potential crisis if President Obama continues his laissez faire attitude toward travel from Ebola-infected countries. That doctor that came to NYC with Ebola should have been in quarantine.

They - like him - were told to self monitor and report any temperature. Just like them, he did this - and NYC actually responded very very well.

Are you actually ok with detaining these people for 3 weeks?

As to Obama, I have yet to see you post even one post on anything he has done that you approve of.

Like the doctor in NYC didn't.

As far as posting positive things about President Obama, are we all supposed to do that here? I wasn't aware of this.

Everyone who comes from the infected areas should be quarantined. That's what they are doing in NY, and they're right to do it.

and called the authorities as soon as he tested positive. That was the protocol at that point in time - just as it was for all the Dallas medical team.

Just because YOU think it should have been different, doesn't make it so.

As to Obama, it is rather odd, that someone new posts against Obama on everything from this, to acting against ISIS and relations with Putin. And those are just ones I have been on the same thread. Is there anything you have posted in favor of any Democrat?

I'm sorry he has the disease, but he should have put himself into quarantine for 21 days. Finally, New York is requiring this. It's about time.

And don't go all Joe McCarthy on me. I don't have to take a loyalty oath.

The protocol was not then to quarantine. The people who made it the policy are Christie and Cuomo - neither a doctor, both doing so for political reasons.

I did not ask for any "loyalty oath" -- just noted that I have yet to see a single positive comment from you on Obama on any topic. Nor any other Democrat. You could have easily proven that I simply saw a poor non representative sample of your output -- just by linking to one written before I asked.

As to Joe McCarthy was exactly did I accuse you of? Pretty defensive there. I was simply surprised that I was suddenly seeing negative comments from you - who I had never seen before - all over the place on many topics. Seems relatively unusual.

should be? Please tell us where you got your PhD in Epidemiology, what your dissertation was about, what year it was awarded, and what educational institution awarded it to you.

Otherwise I'm gonna say you're full of horse shit.

Alerting.

Obama isn't the one with the laissez faire attitude about Ebola, sweetcakes. That honor goes to the Republicans and Teabaggers who wouldn't support a single policy or plan or government department of Obama's if their very lives depended on it.

They've got their ignorant little pea brains buried so deep in their bibles and asses they'll have to be surgically removed.

Each and every state has the unfettered right to ignore everything CDC has ever said, and Texass chose to do so. and guess what? Doing so has shown them to be the incompetent partisan buffoons that some of us knew they were all along.

Too bad some random "mud person" from the Dark Continent had to pay the price for their buffoonery. Not that Texass gives a rat's ass about poor Mr. Duncan.

And if Christie wants to quarantine doctors returning from West Africa who aren't symptomatic and therefore pose no threat to anyone, he has a SACRED DUTY to quarantine each and every nurse and physician and freaking custodian who gets within 100 yards of an Ebola patient in NJ and he needs to put THEM in solitary confinement for 21 days.

Otherwise he shows himself to be merely playing political games at the expense of LIBERALS who give a shit about their fellow non-Amurkan humans.

"Laissez faire" attitude? I would call it a "scientific" or "reality-based" attitude. But don't despair. I'm pretty sure there will soon be a federal quarantine (rejecting the advice of those who know the most about the disease) because Cuomo and Christie have made truthiness bi-partisan, and the political pressure will be hard to overcome.

Rather than lead the fear, he is working to defeat BOTH the disease and the fear. Contrast that to Bush, who intentionally terrorize the country when he raised the terror codes whenever he felt politically threatened.

This was an act of a responsible President and it is courageous as there are those stirring up fear because they think it could help them. We don't need fear and ignorance.

Such faith is touching. I'll bet you would be proud of him no matter what. But actually, President Obama has been quite irresponsible in this matter, by permitting people from affected countries to come into the US without a quarantine. That doctor in NYC is a perfect example.

for a rare drug-resistant form of TB.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tb-patient-quarantine-conditions-insane/

That whole incident evolved into an absolute fiasco, but in that case, because of the fact of how TB can spread (strictly air-borne) vs ebola, this is what prompted use of the authority after so many decades. If you read the link I provided, you can see exactly what could happen in terms of evading the quarantine, if outright bans occurred.

The hysteria from the politically-motivated is breath-taking in this thread.

And BTW, do you know the root of the word "hysteria"? "Hystera" in Greek means "womb." Accusing concerned people of "hysteria" is a slur against women.

hysterical, and you are displaying your gross ignorance of virology, immunology, and epidemiology.

You are also displaying how much you hate anything and everything liberal, progressive, and democratic.

So one wonders why on earth you are here...................

You look a bit hysterical to me. Try using all caps next time.

:}

He's an American CITIZEN and he has every right to come into the US.

I realize, of course, that you and your teabagger compatriots want liberal medical personnel who travel abroad to help other nations' citizens to be stripped of their citizenship and abandoned to die there of untreated disease. But that's not how this country is run just yet.

I know. It's a tragedy for you. But you just have to suck up and deal with it.

Was up my usual early time on Saturday to hear it on the radio here in Philly.