President Alfred E. Neuman | The American Spectator
– 10.6.14
On Saturday evening, a flight from Brussels landed at Newark carrying a man thought to be a Liberian who was vomiting and apparently showing other symptoms of Ebola, the disease that has broken out in epidemic proportions in West Africa. He was evacuated and later found not to be infected with the disease, which — if left untreated — can kill up to 90 percent of the people who are infected.
That’s a higher percentage than those killed by bubonic plague, which kills about 66 percent of those untreated.
Last week, a Wall Street Journal report gave us insight into President Obama’s desperate efforts to concede enough to Iran in his nuclear weapons negotiations that even the contumacious ayatollahs would have to give him a guarantee of peace in our time.
Still, America remains preternaturally cool. Nothing bothers us. We shouldn’t panic, but we can’t have faith that the government can handle this and has everything under control. Don’t just take the word of the head of the Centers for Disease Control because what he says is nonsensical.
Dr. Thomas Frieden told a Friday news conference, “Though we might wish we can seal ourselves off from the world, there are Americans who have the right of return and many other people that have the right to enter this country.” Frieden also said that a travel ban could make the problem worse by impeding health care workers and supplies from reaching the Ebola-riddled nations. What utter nonsense. A travel ban is precisely what is necessary to protect America’s population against one of the deadliest diseases.
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