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More exponential growth - and hopium from Obama
As
Ebola Cases Top 10,000, Obama Says America Can "Beat" The
Deadly Virus
25
October, 2014
Following
the sad death of its first Ebola case, Mali's
President has said he will not close his nation's border with Guinea,
because "the incident showed it was impossible to completely
seal his country."
Mali's
neighbors, on the other hand, are shutting
borders, as Mauritania tries
not to become Africa's 7th Ebola-infected country. This
brings, according
to The WHO,
the number
of cases of Ebola to 10,141 with
4,922 dead (so far).
Americans
should not worry though, for the 2nd week in a row, President Obama
devoted his address to the subject of Ebola, explaining "basic
facts" of how difficult it is to catch (despite the need to
enforce mandatory quarantine for healthcare workers) and in
'USA USA USA'-esque language, explains how "Americans can beat"
the deadly virus.
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As
Reuters reports, the
death of Mali's first Ebola case will not prompt its to close its
borders...
Mali
will not close its border with neighbouring Guinea after a
two-year-old girl infected with Ebola was brought across the frontier
by her grandmother and died in Mali this week, President Ibrahim
Boubacar Keita said on Saturday.
The
girl travelled hundreds of kilometres through Mali - including a stop
in the capital Bamako - on public transport, potentially exposing
many people to the virus, before she died in the western town of
Kayes on Friday.
Malian
authorities have isolated 43 people, including 10 health care workers
who had contact with the child in the town of Kayes, where she was
taken for treatment, the W.H.O. said.
Keita
said that the incident
showed it was impossible to completely seal his country off from
Ebola in neighbouring Guinea but said he remained calm as the girl's
journey and potential contacts had already been traced.
"Guinea
is Mali's neighbour. We have a shared border that we did not close
and we will not close," he
told France's RFI radio station.
But
Mauritania closed its border with Mali...
(via Xinhua)
Mauritania
has closed its border with Mali, where an Ebola death was confirmed
in the border area this week, a local health official told Xinhua on
Saturday.
"The
authorities of Nouakchott gave instruction to conduct the closing of
the all terrestrial points of passage situated on the border," said
Dr Limam Deddeh, physician chief of the border city of Kobonni.
The
border closure, which came after the first confirmed Ebola death in
Mali, was meant to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus to the local
population, said the doctor.
But
Americans should not worry... President Obama (and his new Czar) are
"focused" on the fight against Ebola and
for the 2nd week in a row, makes his weekly address about the deadly
virus (which is not very contagious and nothing to be alarme
about - aside from the need to mandatorily quarantine any healthcare
worker entering the US)...
Having
explained the "basic facts" of how difficult it is to catch
(despite the need to enforce mandatory quarantine for healthcare
workers), dismissing
Rep. Peter King's warnings...
Rep.
Peter King believes Ebola may be more of a threat than doctors are
telling the public.
In
an interview with Long Island News Radio last week, the New York
Republican expressed his concern that the virus has mutated and
become airborne, according to BuzzFeed.
“You
know my attitude was it’s important not to create a panic and it’s
important not to overreact and the doctors were absolutely certain
that this can not be transmitted and it was not airborne and yet we
find out the people who have contracted it were wearing all
protective gear,”
King said.
King
used the two nurses who were stricken with Ebola after caring for
Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the
U.S., as a prime example of how doctors could be wrong about the way
the virus is spread.
“Listen, I
don’t blame doctors or the medical profession for not being up to
date on the latest mutation,”
King said.
“I
mean, they should try to be and they should work at it but less I
think they should be less definite when they make these
pronouncements. That there is absolutely nothing to worry about, this
can’t be transmitted airborne, that there’s nothing to worry
about.”
His
bottom line: Take
the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s warnings about
Ebola — that it is only transmitted through bodily fluids — with
a grain of salt.
...and in
'USA USA USA'-esque language, Obama explains how "Americans can
beat" the deadly virus.
Ebola
Crisis: NJ Gov. Christie predicts quarantine will soon become
‘national policy’
October
2014 – WASHINGTON – New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he has no second thoughts about
enacting a 21-day medical quarantine on medical workers returning
from treating Ebola patients in West Africa. “I think this is a
policy that will become a national policy sooner rather than later,”
the Republican governor said on “Fox News Sunday,” emphasizing
the population density of his state and the New York metropolitan
area. “The fact of the matter is that the CDC protocol, is as Dr.
[Anthony] Fauci admitted himself, had been a moving target,”
Christi added, referring to an earlier interview on the same show by
the director of the Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
“It
was my conclusion that we needed to do this to protect the public
health of the people of New Jersey,” Christie said.” [New York]
Gov. [Andrew] Cuomo agreed, and now [Chicago] Mayor [Rahm] Emanuel
agrees, and I think the CDC eventually will come around to our point
of view on this. This is government’s job,” Christie said. “We
have taken this action, and I have no second thoughts about it.”
Mauritania
closes border
with Mali over Ebola fears – W. Africa cases three
times higher than reported
with Mali over Ebola fears – W. Africa cases three times higher than reported
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