Those of you that like big government, take a good look around. WHO is in charge? Who is making these idiotic decisions? Ineptitude abounds. For the love of God, does it take a rocket scientist to set up a system where people exposed to ebola are NOT permitted to fly on airplanes and go on cruises? I cannot think of a single better way to SPREAD the disease then to put exposed people in contact with people from diverse geographic backgrounds. Good grief. We have morons appointing morons to positions that have high demand for doing their job correctly. Political appointees have no business running agencies.
Even in the middle ages, they knew enough to quarantine people.
When the Black Death spread through Italy in late 1347, some ports began turning away ships suspected of coming from infected areas. During March the following year, authorities in Venice became the first to formalise such protective actions against plague, closing the city’s waters to suspect vessels, and subjecting travellers and legitimate ships to 30 days’ isolation. This period was extended to 40 days some years later - hence the term quarantine
Isolation and quarantine are nothing new, and have been effective. However, the current liberal leadership at the CDC focuses not on the effectiveness of such measures, but on how they impact minorities (from the CDC):
"The use of segregation or isolation to separate persons suspected of being infected has frequently violated the liberty of outwardly healthy persons, most often from lower classes, and ethnic and marginalized minority groups have been stigmatized and have faced discrimination.
...these measures, by their nature, require vigilant attention to avoid causing prejudice and intolerance."
And the meme about mean old reps cutting spending is absolute crap. Check out this very impressive (and depressing) chart. Go to Dept of Health and Human Services, click on the "+" sign to open the agencies. Click on Centers for Disease Control. http://www.downsizin...ent.org/charts/
What are they spending the money on? Do a quick google search for CDC wasteful spending.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive" -- C.S. Lewis
If the only way to combat "global warming" was to lower taxes, we would never hear of the issue again. - Anonymous
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