One of your people: Fox News' Shepard Smith railed against the media's Ebola hysteria on Wednesday. "You should have no concerns about Ebola at all. None. I promise," stated Smith. He went on to tell viewers, "Do not listen to the hysterical voices on the radio and the television or read the fear-provoking words online. The people who say and write hysterical things are being very irresponsible." He explained: "We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two healthcare workers who contracted the disease from a dying man. They are isolated. There is no information to suggest that the virus has spread to anyone in the general population in America. Not one person in the general population in the United States." The Fox News host emphasized that political gamesmanship is skewing media coverage. "With midterm elections coming, the party in charge needs to appear to be effectively leading. The party out of power needs to show that there is a lack of leadership," said Smith. Smith stressed, "I report to you with certainty this afternoon that being afraid at all is the wrong thing to do." He called media-stoked Ebola panic "counterproductive", saying that it "lacks basis in fact or reason." He acknowledged that Ebola is a serious problem in West Africa, as well as for the victims and their families in Texas, but he pleaded with media outlets to stop fear-mongering about Ebola in the U.S. "Someday there may be a real panic. Someday, something may start spreading that they can't control. And then, do you know what we're gonna have to do? We're gonna have to relax and listen to leaders. We're not gonna panic when we're supposed to and we're certainly not gonna panic now. We have to stop it."
This administration has no more inclination to shut the airflow from Africa than it does to shut the border flow from Mexico. It's going to be every man for himself in this country before he's done.
No, I wouldn't. If Obama was the Constitutional Champion he promised, I'd be loving him right now. Bush was a complete twat. I'm a Libertarian. I hate both the mainstream right and left, equally. Now, to be fair, there are a few issues I don't agree with Ron Paul on. I think he's totally wrong about border security, for example.
Ebola Travel Bans Enacted by Nearly 30 Countries, but Not US http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/ebola-travel-ban/2014/10/16/id/601025/
LOS REYES LA PAZ, Mexico (AP) -- Only hours after the publication of an Associated Press story on his case Tuesday, the U.S. government issued a humanitarian visa enabling the return of a Harvard University student who broke immigration rules by taking his dying mother to Mexico. Dario Guerrero was born in Mexico and moved with his family to California when he was 2. The Obama administration granted him and hundreds of thousands of other young immigrants a reprieve from deportation two years ago. But these people can't leave the U.S. without government approval....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...6b484c-5890-11e4-8264-deed989ae9a2_story.html Homeland Security says four Dulles passengers were taken to a local hospital after Ebola screenings Four passengers who flew into Dulles International Airport recently were taken to a local hospital after enhanced airport screening alarmed the Centers for Disease Control, the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. The agency and the CDC provided no details on the hospital visits or whether the passengers were admitted to the hospital. Spokespeople for the two Northern Virginia hospitals closest to the airport said they did not receive the passengers. “We have no patients,” said Reston Hospital Center nursing supervisor Kim Wilfred. “I’m not aware of anything like that, and I would be aware,” said Tony Raker at Inova Fairfax Hospital. The CDC and DHS could not explain the discrepancy. ... A person familiar with the screening at Dulles said that a 13-year-old boy and his mother were taken to a hospital last Thursday after the CDC became concerned about their symptoms. The source, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity surrounding Ebola fears, said two other passengers also were taken to a hospital over the weekend. The person was unable to name the hospital, and said that all four passengers apparently were released after further testing at the hospital.