Charles P Pierce- The Real Contagion

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As anyone who has known me for more than 11 seconds will tell you, I am far from an expert on time management. Nevertheless, I have to believe that, at this moment in time, when Shep Smith of Fox News and that Dr. Van Tulleken guy on CNN are the only people on TV making sense about the Ebola virus, which has killed one person here in America, that the head of the Centers for Disease Control and the head of the National Institute for Allergy And Infectious Disease ought to have better things to do today than appear before the geniuses of the House of Representatives so that they can be either dogs or ponies in an election year. (Colorado Congressman Cory Gardner, fresh off getting beaten like a drum by debate moderators in Colorado, is coming all the way back to Washington to explain why the Ebola virus is actually a Person.) But that's just me.

Before the President spoke about stepped up procedures, Pennsylvania Republican Rep Tim Murphy, who chairs the panel convening Thursday's hearing, indicated that he was concerned the plans in place to date were insufficient. "So far, traveler self-reported screening procedures and hospital infection control measures have been demonstrated failures. The public is anxious for the Administration to execute a domestic plan that covers all aspects of public health protection, and we stand ready to assist in accomplishing this critical goal," Murphy said in a written statement. Another Pennsylvania House Republican, Rep Tom Marino, called on Frieden to step down as CDC Director on Wednesday. Marino said the Ebola situation is "spiraling out of control" and added that "the information provided to the public has been cryptic and in some cases misleading. This has provided a false sense of security to many of our citizens."

(Tom is an old friend of the blog, as he was once a strong contender to replace Michele Bachmann as Royal Regent Of The Crazy People under the reign of Padishah Emperor For Life Louie Gohmert. So the person who wants the head of the CDC to resign over the response to a disease that began in Africa is a guy who once was unsure that Libya was even a part of Africa. Jesus, these people.)

In case you joined American democracy already in progress, this is the way it is going to work. The private, for-profit hospital in Texas completely screws the pooch. (They sent the tubes containing blood from the late Thomas Duncan through the hospital's general delivery system? This is moronic.) The CDC comes in -- admittedly, after it should have, but there are regulations, beloved of our private-sector fetishists, that got in the way -- and the privatizers and anti-government types set up the CDC to take the fall for the hospital.

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http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/A_Waste_Of_Time

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1. Nail hit on the head by Charlie

Wait fear fear fear Ebola fear fear fear
Obama doooooooooooooo something
Fear fear fear

[Tweedy]

2. Spot on!

And we are left with the incredible notion that a hospital has no duty to effectively and adequately treat a patient with a known disease using demonstrably effective protocols. It would be funny if I were an extraterrestrial.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Thank you, Charles, far too many panic stricken misinformed science deniers and propaganda-for-

ratings believers, even in the rarified environ of DU.

Mind if I quote you every chance I get?

CDC taking the fall for the incompetency and greed of the for profit medical hospital with the non unionized nurses.

And the media plays along because it is better to not look the ad buying gift horses in the mouth.

[hifiguy]

4. As a rhetorical sharpshooter

Charile Pierce can knock the wings off a bumblebee at 500 yards.