Cuomo Incoherent Re. Ebola Threat

[Smarmie Doofus]

Panic. Don't panic. Panic. Don't panic.

PANIC!

I'll take the Coldplay version, thanks.

Sheeezzz. He did better .... by comparison .... with the Moreland Commission. All over the map.... as usual.

Today's NY Times:

>>>>On Thursday night, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo sat beside Mayor Bill de Blasio at Bellevue Hospital Center as they offered soothing words to worried New Yorkers: New York City’s first case of Ebola, they said, was no reason for panic.

Less than 19 hours later, Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, joined the Republican governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, and struck a starkly different tone. The governors announced Friday that medical personnel returning to New York after treating Ebola patients in West Africa would be automatically subject to a 21-day quarantine.

The risk, Mr. Cuomo said, was grave. Offering an ominous hypothetical, he raised the precise situation that the mayor and the city’s health commissioner had tried to play down the night before: the danger of Ebola spreading through the subway system.

“In a region like this,” Mr. Cuomo said, “you go out one, two or three times, you ride the subway, you ride a bus, you could affect hundreds and hundreds of people.”

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. Best not to listen to anything Cuomo says...

since he'll change his mind 5 times a day depending on his mood.

Goddam-- I can't stand the sumbitch, but maybe it's good news he's taking the mike away from Schumer, our other grandstanding cheapshit Dem politician.

The good news is that the NY Governor isn't all that powerful and mainly has just a bully pulpit to work with. That's probably why his mouth is working overtime and he hogs the spotlight like Giuliani used to.

The other good news is Gillebrand and my Congressman, Tim Bishop, who are both doing the right thing most of the time.

[customerserviceguy]

2. Because unlike the President

he knows he needs to show voters that he actually cares about what they think, even if some experts label those thoughts irrational.

The authorities are sending mixed messages. One says, "You can't easily catch this disease, you have to have intimate contact with body fluids to do so," and the other says, "We're going to notify everyone who came within 100 feet of this individual, and we're going to decontaminate every cubic inch of the places where we can track where this person has been."

See why people get fearful?

[pnwmom]

3. What could make people panic would be if no one had learned from the stupid missteps

of Dallas Presby and the county and the CDC.

Sending an Ebola patient home with a prescription of antibiotics.

Claiming that he told no one about being from Liberia.

Then claiming that he only told a nurse.

Then blaming it on the computer system.

Then acknowledging that everyone in the system knew that he'd been in Liberia.

Saying his temp didn't meet CDC guidelines for Ebola.

Admitting that his temp had reached 103 before he left.

Letting him sit in the emergency room for 7 hours with other patients.

Having his dirty blanket on a chair in the E.R.

Not decontaminating the ambulance he rode in for two days.

Not decontaminating the apartment he was staying in for almost a week, and forcing his relatives to remain inside.

Putting those most exposed on "voluntary quarantine," then mandating it when they went back to school despite the quarantine.

Not having all the staff he encountered in the first day in protective gear (according to a nurse).

And on, and on, and on.

And what was the CDC saying? That hospitals were well prepared to deal with an Ebola outbreak. (They'd gotten lots of emails!) That any hospital with the capacity to isolate a patient in a private room was capable of taking care of an Ebola patient.

WRONG.

Mistakes like these were causing people to panic, because the "authorities" didn't appear to know what they were doing. And they didn't.

Taking strong measures like the 21 day quarantine for people who are KNOWN to have been exposed to Ebola will assure people, not create panic. And Doctors Without Borders already recommends to its staff that they not work for three weeks upon return. This quarantine mandates that recommendation and restricts them in their private activities as well. The quarantine is an inconvenience, but it threatens no lives, and it isn't unreasonable, given the public health threat we're dealing with.

Again, Doctors Without Borders already recommends that its returnees not work -- because of the need for "rest" -- for three weeks. Is it a mere coincidence that this rest period exactly coincides with the 21 day incubation period for Ebola? Get real.

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Doctors Without Borders does ask workers not to return to work for 21 days, however, both because they need to rest and because of the risk of contracting an illness that could generate symptoms easily mistaken for Ebola.