Worried About an Epidemic Caused By “Dumb Government Tricks”? Too Late. We Already Have One.

More precisely: we have one today, courtesy of our    clueless DC clown krewe’s     wonderful Administration’s “we don’t need no steenkin’ public health” policies.

We already know the current     group of fools and tools calling the shots in DC     Administration doesn’t want to take effective measures to keep Ebola out of the US.  Logically, since Ebola seems to be about 70% fatal that means they’re apparently OK with letting Ebola come to the US and kill maybe 90 or so folks by the end of the year.  (Projections are for up to 130 additional cases of Ebola in the US by year’s end under the Administration’s current “don’t worry/be happy” Ebola control policies; 70% of 130 is 91.)

Well, that really should be no surprise – hell, we should have seen it coming. Because      those starry-eyed, “We Are the World”-singing, ideology-driven imbeciles     the current Administration is already responsible for the needless deaths via imported disease of several US children; the paralysis of dozens of others; and hundreds ending up seriously ill in hospital emergency rooms and/or ICUs due to their asinine policies.

We all know that the     Marxist morons running the Executive branch     current Administration has essentially run an open Southwestern border for months – “for the sake of the children”, allegedly. Well, along with the criminals and other illegals who took advantage . . . another thoroughly unwelcome import seems to have come along for the ride.

It’s called EV-D68. It’s an enterovirus that’s common in Central America, but which was previously quite rare in the US.

Because of recent Administration policy along our Southwestern border, however, today it’s no longer rare in the US. In fact, today the US appears to be smack-dab in the middle of a full-blown epidemic of EV-D68.

Wonder how that happened, and what it’s done? Here’s an excerpt from a DailyCaller article on the subject:

The deadly EV-D68 enterovirus epidemic, which struck thousands of kids this fall, was likely propelled through America by President Barack Obama’s decision to allow tens of thousands of Central Americans across the Texas border, according to a growing body of genetic and statistical evidence.

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So far, that virus has been found in nine people — including at least three American kids — who died from illness. It has apparently inflicted unprecedented polio-like paralysis in roughly 50 kids, and it has put hundreds of young American kids into hospital emergency wards and intensive care units throughout more than 40 states. Most of the dead have not been publicly identified.

Yeah, you read that correctly: thousands sickened, hundreds seriously ill, about 50 paralyzed, and 9 dead – so far. In just a few months, the disease has already spread across more than 40 states (47, to be precise). And more cases are certain to appear in the future.

Sounds like a freaking epidemic to me.  Hell, it’s probably established and endemic in the US now.

And the “best” part? It was a completely preventable epidemic.  It was caused by a handful of politically-driven, manifestly stupid policy decisions – decisions that gave higher priority to helping non-citizens break US law than enforcing US law or protecting the nation.

You should go and read the full DailyCaller article.  It’s fairly long, so budget time accordingly.

I’m guessing the article will p!ss you off royally.  It damn well should.  And after reading it, perhaps the Administration’s seeming lack of concern about Ebola will make a bit more sense.

Why? Well, for what it’s worth: reading the DailyCaller article, it appears that the CDC seems to be doing it’s best to “stonewall” inquiries regarding technical data and analysis about the origins of current EV-D68 epidemic, and possibly also downplay its severity. They don’t seem to want to answer reasonable questions, and almost seem to be making difficult for 3rd parties to obtain much information about what’s going on. “Deliberately uncooperative” is the phrase that comes to mind.

To me, that kinda sounds quite familiar – and says much. But maybe that’s just me. Interpret the situation as you see fit personally; come to your own conclusions.

But here’s my take: after seeing how the Administration handled EV-D68 and is handling Ebola, there are really only two possibilities that come to mind that plausibly explain the “why” behind their actions in each case.  And, bluntly: both of those possibilities absolutely reek.

Best case, the Administration is acting as it has because they’re utterly incompetent and clueless – so incompetent and clueless that they literally don’t realize their policies are endangering the US public.  Or maybe they just are too stupid to believe reality when it smacks them in the face. Either works.

That’s the best case.

Worst case?  Worst case is that they know full well they’re endangering the public.  But in spite of that knowledge, they’re going ahead anyway – because they just don’t give a sh!t that their asinine, politically-driven policies which deny reality are needlessly costing US citizens their lives. To them, playing politics is far more important than protecting public health and safety – so it’s “full speed ahead”. A few unnecessary innocent corpses here and there are just “the cost of doing business”.

Previously, I could believe either of the “best case” options above.  But after now seeing two recent, similar examples of this Administration’s blatant disregard of public health and safety to push their political agenda, I can’t really say I can believe that any more.

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