Yesterday, the first words out of Tom Frieden's mouth when the news emerged that the second sick nurse had flow to Ohio and back just before being diagnosed were that she should not have flown and she knew she should not have flown.
This morning Mika Brzezinski read the news that both before she flew to Ohio and before she flew back she called the CDC and asked what to do.
Before the flight back she told the CDC she had a fever and was concerned.
CDC gave her the green light to fly.
The guy seems more and more a bungling bureaucrat whose first concerns are to protect the reputation of his agency and his own job.
Nurse Who Contracted Ebola Called CDC Before Flight, Official Says
Recall he blamed the first nurse who got sick rather than allowing anyone to think the procedures he had put in place and said would make everyone safe were completely wrong-headed, though that is exactly what many doctors are saying and have been saying now for some time.
As for the government's credibility on the issue, see this.
President Obama, Ebola and the total collapse of credibility
Sure, it's a partisan hack job, but it's true and the White House has lost street cred every step of the way.
Less than two weeks ago, the government told us that the Ebola virus couldn’t spread here.
Also, the Internal Revenue Service isn’t targeting, the Islamic State is JV, Iraq is secure, the National Security Agency isn’t eavesdropping, Benghazi was about a video, the economy is getting better and you can keep your health plan.
The crisis of confidence in government has now reached epidemic levels, just in time for the government to bungle a possible actual epidemic.
. . . .
According to a recent Pew poll, only 20 percent of the country has a “great deal” of confidence that the federal government will be able to prevent a widespread Ebola outbreak on U.S. soil.
Frieden does not enjoy public confidence, nor even the confidence of the sharks in the White House press pool.
O should have announced his replacement yesterday with a "Czar" and also put in place a policy of mandatory quarantine for anybody coming here from West Africa.
He should have announced more aid for Africa where, apparently, his idea of the American role does not include a single American providing direct care for a single patient.
He did none of those things.
Care-givers are already in critically short supply in Africa and, in the face of spreading knowledge of the high mortality among them, are apt to become more scarce rather than less.
Just how is this supposed to be contained without doctors and nurses and trained medical staff?
Herd the sick twenty at a time into dungeons, toss in food and water, wait for them to die, hose out the cell, and repeat until all the sick are gone?
I well understand if O did not want to order Americans into direct contact with patients unnecessarily.
No doubt his thinking is that if our military help with training and logistics locals can concentrate on the care-giving.
And that makes you wonder.
How soon will those Cuban volunteer care-givers, doctors and nurses, be bringing the disease back to the island?
And what sort of mess will it make there before spreading to the mainland?
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