So, Who Is To Blame?
Excerpt "Don't blame Duncan; blame the US government for its policy of allowing passengers from Liberia to enter the US to begin with. Matthew Continetti asks a question that the government can't answer: "If the FAA can cancel flights to Israel, why can’t it cancel flights to and from the West African countries whence the outbreak originated?"
Nobody argued that cancelling flights to Israel would make the war worse. But that's just what CDC chief Tom Frieden is saying about closing the border toEbola-afflicted countries:
“The only way we’re going to get to zero risk is by stopping the outbreak at the source” in West Africa, Frieden said.
“Even if we tried to close the border, it wouldn’t work,” the top health official added. “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.”
Have you ever heard such bureaucratic doubletalk in your life? People do not have a "right" to return if they're sick with a deadly disease. That's a no brainer and Frieden is surely lying when he makes that point. Transiting passengers would pose a problem, but not an insurmountable one. And isolating countries that need to be isolated will make it no more difficult to fight the disease than it is now.
What's the real reason for refusing to cut off air travel to these countries? Continetti has an interesting theory:
Simple: because doing so would violate the sacred principles by which our bourgeois liberal elite operate. To deny an individual entry to the United States over fears of contamination would offend our elite’s sense of humanitarian cosmopolitanism. For them, “singling out” nations or cultures from which threats to the public health or safety of the United States originate is illegitimate. It “stigmatizes” those nations or cultures, it “shames” them, it makes them feel unequal. It’s judgmental. It suggests that America prefers her already existing citizens to others.
I'm sure at least some of that is on the money. Listen to Frieden and it appears to be a subtext to what he's saying. We can't appear to be acting in a beastly manner toward black Africans - even if it kills a lot of Americans.
When this is over, there is going to be a reckoning. And the administration's incompetence and myopia are going to be examined and exposed. All we can do now is hope that this stupidity costs as few lives as possible."
Excerpt "Don't blame Duncan; blame the US government for its policy of allowing passengers from Liberia to enter the US to begin with. Matthew Continetti asks a question that the government can't answer: "If the FAA can cancel flights to Israel, why can’t it cancel flights to and from the West African countries whence the outbreak originated?"
Nobody argued that cancelling flights to Israel would make the war worse. But that's just what CDC chief Tom Frieden is saying about closing the border toEbola-afflicted countries:
“The only way we’re going to get to zero risk is by stopping the outbreak at the source” in West Africa, Frieden said.“Even if we tried to close the border, it wouldn’t work,” the top health official added. “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.”
Have you ever heard such bureaucratic doubletalk in your life? People do not have a "right" to return if they're sick with a deadly disease. That's a no brainer and Frieden is surely lying when he makes that point. Transiting passengers would pose a problem, but not an insurmountable one. And isolating countries that need to be isolated will make it no more difficult to fight the disease than it is now.
What's the real reason for refusing to cut off air travel to these countries? Continetti has an interesting theory:
Simple: because doing so would violate the sacred principles by which our bourgeois liberal elite operate. To deny an individual entry to the United States over fears of contamination would offend our elite’s sense of humanitarian cosmopolitanism. For them, “singling out” nations or cultures from which threats to the public health or safety of the United States originate is illegitimate. It “stigmatizes” those nations or cultures, it “shames” them, it makes them feel unequal. It’s judgmental. It suggests that America prefers her already existing citizens to others.
I'm sure at least some of that is on the money. Listen to Frieden and it appears to be a subtext to what he's saying. We can't appear to be acting in a beastly manner toward black Africans - even if it kills a lot of Americans.
When this is over, there is going to be a reckoning. And the administration's incompetence and myopia are going to be examined and exposed. All we can do now is hope that this stupidity costs as few lives as possible."
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