Should We Be Panicking As Obama's Henchmen Declare Ebola Is Not A Problem?

WHO'S REALLY CREATING EBOLA HYSTERIA?

Exclusive: Joseph Farah figures when the statists say 'don't worry,' it's time to worry

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When it comes to Ebola, the greatest fear of the American statist, liberal establishment is not the deadly plague itself but rather what they describe as “hysteria” over its potential consequences.

Yet, in closely examining the very slow, lax and nonsensical official response to an outbreak that occurred many months ago, it’s clear a politically driven agenda rather than public health-driven action is stirring most of the well-grounded fear, anxiety and, yes, even hysteria in a frustrated citizenry that understand that the primary role of the federal government is to protect its people.

For instance, last week Tom Friedan, director of the Centers for Disease Control, ruled out without equivocation or hesitation any possibility of restricting travel between the U.S. and West Africa – claiming it would actually “backfire,” somehow placing more Americans at risk of contracting Ebola.

“Even if we tried to close the border, it wouldn’t work,” he claimed. People have a right to return. People transiting through could come in. And it would backfire, because by isolating these countries, it’ll make it harder to help them. It will spread more there and we’d be more likely to be exposed here.”

Now let’s analyze that claim. There are multiple issues involved:

• Thousands of West Africans are flying into the U.S. every week from countries experiencing the outbreak. How would prohibiting that travel increase the likelihood of exposure here? It makes no sense. It is simply following the standard, common-sense, well-established medical protocol for isolating deadly viruses. Such restrictions wouldn’t prohibit the U.S. from sending aid and medical help to those countries. Anyone involved in that kind of relief work would be identified and subject to screening upon re-entry. But it’s simply impossible to put in place the proper screening procedures for thousands of West Africans routinely traveling to America every week aboard airplanes.
• When the idea of simple travel restrictions was raised, Frieden immediately jumped to closure of the border. In other words, he changed the subject. He tipped his hand and revealed the political agenda behind the decision. It is well-known that the Obama administration doesn’t want any more border controls. In fact, it wants fewer. In fact, it seeks to place those who surreptitiously enter the country illegally at the head of the line for permanent residency and even a path to citizenship over those who sought residency and citizenship by following the law. With the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, along with other mysterious illnesses that have already broken out in the U.S. since illegal immigrants were welcomed into the U.S. and systematically spread across 49 of the 50 states, maintaining the open border policies of the Obama administration is deliberately placing the health and welfare of Americans at greater risk.
• There is another related national security threat taking place simultaneous to the Ebola epidemic. It’s called ISIS. ISIS is a large, well-funded Islamist terrorist army that would like nothing better than to weaponize Ebola by having its suicide machine bring it into the U.S. in a big way – utilizing the lax travel policies to its advantage. The ruthless killers could use the airlines or the border, thanks to Obama’s see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil policies.

Just as Barack Obama waited to deal with ISIS, he has waited to deal with Ebola. In both cases, his plan is too little, too late.

Now let’s compare the liberal response to Ebola with the liberal response to the phantom threat of “climate change.”

With Ebola, we shouldn’t panic. We shouldn’t take any drastic measures to protect ourselves from the disease. It would be somehow counterproductive – a notion that has not been rationally developed by any of those making this suggestion.

But with “climate change,” a fanciful, highly speculative threat that defied all evidence it even exists, liberals want to reorder the entire economic and political structure of the country and the world. In fact, officials use the most hysterical language imaginable to hype the threat it poses to the planet. End-of-the-world scenarios are constantly being spun. They tell us the time for drastic, even draconian, action is past. Alternate views are not even tolerated, only derided.

When I see such bad judgment made by our liberal, statist, political and cultural establishment, I worry. I think this kind of irrationality is inducing panic and hysteria. And the more the spokesmen for that liberal, statist, political and cultural establishment tell me there’s nothing to worry about, the more I worry.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/whos-really-creating-ebola-hysteria/#HIyvA6XmLqm8oCkk.99