US Ebola crisis proves feds are incapable, inefficient and corrupt

  I've been watching the details this week regarding the Ebola crisis with wonder, horror and incredulity at the incompetence of the government that is in charge of our well being. I keep getting shades of the Gulf oil spill when Obama spent more time on the golf course than trying to fix the problems.
  Skewed priorities have never been more apparent.  It has also been starkly obvious that federal authorities are more interested in guiding the narrative than preventing transmission of the disease.
  If ever there were a reason NOT to involve government in our health care, that reason arrived with the first Ebola patient, not to even mention Obamacare, which hasn't been fully implemented yet.
  From the beginning of the incidence of Duncan arriving in Dallas, it's been apparent that the feds haven't wanted to talk about the immigrant with Ebola, frequently referencing HIPAA to avoid any disclosure of information affecting public safety.
  It's obvious at this point that there are few if any safeguards to prevent people---most primarily immigrants--who've been exposed to Ebola from entering our country. Just lie at the airport, as the Dallas Ebola immigrant did and say, no, I haven't been exposed.
  Later when you race to the hospital exhibiting symptoms you can tell the health professionals you've been exposed pretty vigorously 4 days earlier.
  Except then we have the issue of the flawed electronic health records. 
  Electronic health records--unhackable, for sure---were supposed to bring equanimity and balance to our health care. Now we discover there could be problems with their execution and efficacy. 
  So the Ebola immigrant was sent home to spread the disease to others, as over 100 people (initially pooh poohed as 18) are now being watched for signs of the disease.
  What else went wrong?
  Rather than sending in a federal team to help local authorities, apparently we were unprepared.
  The exposed family was confined for days to the contaminated apartment after having taken a thoroughly contaminated blanket to the hospital where it sat on a waiting room seat for a few hours, next to the other folks who had been exposed to the disease through personal contact.
  To clean the vomit our Ebola victim had spread on the sidewalk outside the apartment complex, local personnel had difficulty finding a cleaner to clear it off, but when they did, here is the result:

 

  Yes, that's right. These gentlemen have no protective gear and they're using power washers to spread the vomitus into the sewers and around the hood.

  Which is exactly what happened to the EMS drivers who took the Ebola patient to the hospital, not to mention this food delivery guy, also unmasked and unsuited, as per CDC guidelines, who visited their apartment with food when they complained they had nothing to eat:

  But we know that Ebola is not communicable except through personal contact, a fact that we've repeatedly been told again and again, so why would we be fearful for the individuals pictured above?

  Except for the fact that the virus can still infect for several hours--and even days--through saliva and sweat:

Ebola is killed with hospital-grade disinfectants (such as household bleach). Ebola dried on surfaces such as doorknobs and countertops can survive for several hours; however, virus in body fluids (such as blood) can survive up to several days at room temperature …

  CDC keeps sending its drones--human, that is-- to drill into our heads that there's no cause for concern, that Obama (who 2 weeks ago said Ebola would never reach our shores) has "leaned forward" to prevent its arrival. 

  In case you didn't know it, lean forward is MSNBC's slogan, the network where its experts claim  the NRA caused Ebola to spread. And no one should play the Obama blame game for its spread, even if he's made it worse not just by doing nothing but blowing it off as, well, sorta JV to be concerned about it.

  And slavery. Through slavery, CNN's commenter says we caused Ebola through slavery. 

  The media has dutifully picked up the story that everything can be Bush's fault but nothing can be Obama's fault.

  Oddly, the CDC removed the following comments from the website on September 19, the day before Duncan arrived at DFW, regardless CDC director Friedan's constant reminders that everything is fine:

Because we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola, few primary prevention measures have been established and no vaccine exists.

When cases of the disease do appear, risk of transmission is increased within healthcare settings. Therefore, healthcare workers must be able to recognize a case of Ebola and be ready to use practical viral hemorrhagic fever isolation precautions or barrier nursing techniques. They should also have the capability to request diagnostic tests or prepare samples for shipping and testing elsewhere.

  So the CDC's Friedan has repeatedly appeared before the cameras eschewing banning flights to or from the most badly infected nations, such as Liberia. 
  Why can't or shouldn't flights be banned?
  Well, because it will make things worse by not letting health care workers into or out of the infected countries.
  Wait. What?
  We've sent 4000 American soldiers--not doctors, some of whom have become infected even though they knew medical procedures to avoid it--into harm's way to help with the disease. How did they get there?
  But for some reason, Delta and United, etc, need to keep flying in and out of Liberia with vomiting passengers because our government can't?
  Again, explain this to me, and while you're at it explain to me why global warming is causing these cold temperatures. (We hit a record low in Ohio today.)
  Yo, Obamabats and Democrats, private enterprise could have effectively handled this mess. Instead, we put the CDC in charge, a federal regulatory body mired in regulations and rationalizations, accountable essentially to no one. Indeed with an annual budget of over $10 billion, the CDC has spent millions--if not billions--of dollars studying video games and other essential projects, such as these, yet look absolutely inept in a real crisis:

CDC built a $200,000 fitness center (inside a $21-milllion CDC building) that has $30,000 saunas, zero-gravity chairs, and mood-enhancing light shows [SNIP]

• A "Men for Hire" event, with the featured speaker Joseph Itiel, who, according to the report it was advertised, "presents practical tips and covers the seven guidelines for safe and friendly relations with escorts."
• A two-hour workshop on how to "flirt with greater finesse."
• A four-part erotic writing workshop
• A magazine, which included such articles as "Party at BJ's," which explained how to have a "house party" and how much alcohol to serve
• A bar night for HIV-positive men. As the report pointed out, "To recap: a group that receives federal funds spends money to target not only a high-risk population, but one actually carrying the communicable disease HIV, and hosts the targeted event at a bar with alcohol, a known risk factor for spreading HIV."

  With increasing distrust (for good reason) of government entities who've proven to be arrogant, unaccountable, dishonest, lascivious and unjust, why would anyone trust a federal agency with not only our health and well being, but our lives?
  Peggy Noonan (who has won back my admiration) has an excellent column at the WSJ about our and her disillusionment with unaccountable government agencies.

We are locked in some loop where the public figure knows what he must pronounce to achieve his agenda, and the public knows what he must pronounce to achieve his agenda, and we all accept what is being said while at the same time everyone sees right through it. The public figure literally says, “Prepare my talking points,” and the public says, “He’s just reading talking points.” It leaves everyone feeling compromised. Public officials gripe they can’t break through the cynicism. They cause the cynicism.

  Time after time, the feds have deceived us, played us for fools, stolen from us, particularly Obama, who's been insulated by foolish and imprudent sycophants who say things like "he's been bored all his life," too talented for ordinary rubes like you and me:

“I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. . . . So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. . . . He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”

  One suspects the roots of Obama's refusal to deal with this situation effectively.  
1. He wants to push an immigration reform act through, illegally granting citizenship to illegals. He does not want to be stopped in this attempt to overwhelm the system with new voters and welfare payments. This has already begun. 
2.  He does not want to publicly admit government is too big.   
3.  He sees no flaws inherent in the system, choosing to believe government can solve all problems, or at least should be in charge because people are stupid. Besides, America's guilty of colonialism. How much more just for America to suffer the consequences of the effects of poverty and abuse by the colonialists? It has a righteous ring to the ears of a community organizer.
4. Then again, it's another embarrassment for his administration. He cannot admit guilt or take responsibility, in keeping with his background as a pampered, only child of doting Communist grandparents, even if it means pushing through public safety measures just to assure the public that he cares and that someone's in charge of the crisis.
  I suspect reason numbers 1 and 3 are the primary ones, although the others are also in keeping with Obama's philosophy of being better than everyone when doing anything.
  So the public be damned, when it comes to Ebola. Rahm's principle of never letting a good crisis go to waste has gone into effect.
  Because, you know, Democrats could use Ebola as a talking point against Republicans.