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Originally Posted by blueash
I appreciate the attempt to answer Janmcn's question which was a reply to Gomoho's accusation that the ebola scare was partly because the CDC has screwed up.
Your two citations don't support the position Gomoho took that CDC screw ups produced the Ebola scare. The story of the mishandled lab sample of course occurred well after the scare ended and involved no risk to anyone outside the lab. Your second reference with the title including CDC and mistakes when actually read simply says that the CDC :
"The agency now admits a mistake. Its rapid-response team should have been mobilized to Dallas right away to help train the staff caring for Duncan, something the agency said it will do from now on."
Thus the examples of screw ups by the CDC were
1. A mishandling of a lab sample internally which posed no risk to the public
2. Not sending a rapid response team quickly enough because they thought the local hospital would be able to manage the required isolation
Of course if the CDC is incompetent why would you want their team to come help? In fact the CDC gave advise on the proper handling of patients, the lack of need to isolate non-ill persons, the complete picture of how the disease spreads, when persons become contagious, how to monitor while both protecting the public and not stripping people of their rights.
And the lack of trust in government might have been engendered by people saying completely false things like immigrants and terrorists were being infected with Ebola and sent across our borders to get us.
Ebola fears spark backlash against Latino immigrants - CNN.com
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczyn...a-a#.xmXbqovmE
» Next Phase of the Ebola Crisis: Terrorism Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
And that Ebola was easy to catch,
Is the Ebola virus 'incredibly contagious' and 'easy to catch,' like Rand Paul says? | PolitiFact
So perhaps there were some who felt that making it appear that the CDC and the government in general is incompetent was all part of a political philosophy to create and benefit from the Ebola scare. And those who still feel that we only escaped a massive epidemic because we got lucky or "in spite" of the CDC and our response are unaware of how the CDC got it right, nearly completely right. |
The thread was about how good the CDC and others did......that was the thread. Nobody started a thread to demean the CDC or anyone.
My post that you are responding to was simply two links that fly in the face of the post asking for examples of CDC errors and nothing more than that.
Most of the thread was to mock anyone who had fear of the Ebola scare.
You and others sure are attempting to make this something is certainly isnt, although I cannot read the OP.s mind...obviously that is a skill you have mastered. My posts were to simply respond to posts that had NOTHING to do with the OP and to divert it from po.....cal discussion which so many seemed to want it to become.
I am not sure if those being mocked and made fun of for being afraid were all right or left and not sure how this becomes po.....al.
Gomoho's post was stating the obvious about the miscommunications at the beginnings and he ended up complimenting them so not sure what the lecture is all about.
SIMPLY SAID....GOMOHO never said what you claim he said. He did not say "CDC screw ups produced the Ebola scare" He actually simply referred to the "government" and the distrust which existed. So you have put words in his mouth that were never ever posted here.
Secondly.....I simply replied with no comment to JANMCN who asked this question..."What "screw ups" can be blamed on the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta or the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, MD ? It seems that these government institutions cleaned up errors made by the hospital in Dallas and saved lives in the process." I responded by linking TWO articles cited showing errors.
Pretty simple stuff to me but then again.....