10/16/14, "CDC Director Concerned About ‘Porous’ Borders…In Africa," Daily Caller, Alex Griswold
"In his remarks before a televised Congressional hearing, Director of the Center for Disease Control Tom Frieden told Michigan Representative Fred Upton that a major obstacle to implementing a travel ban is that “borders can be porous.”
"REP UPTON: Do we not have a record where they were before, i.e. a passport or travel status, as they travel from one country to the other?
FRIEDEN: Borders can be porous…especially in this part of the world. We won’t be able to check for fever when they leave, we won’t be able to check when they arrive. We won’t be able, as we do currently, to take a detailed history to see if they were exposed when they arrive. When they arrive, we wouldn’t be able to impose quarantine as we now can if they have high risk contact. We wouldn’t be able to obtain detailed locating information, which we do now, including not only name and date of birth, but e-mail addresses, cell phone numbers, address, addresses of friends, so that we can identify and locate them. We wouldn’t be able to provide all of that information as we do now to state and local health departments so that they monitor them under supervision."
But when Tennessee Representative Marsha Blackburn quizzed him on whether or not America’s porous border were a problem, he insisted he was only talking about borders in Africa.
"REP. BLACKBURN I want to be sure I heard you right. You just said to Chairman Upton that we cannot have flight restrictions because of a porous border. So do we need to worry about having an unsecure southern and northern border? Is that a big part of the problem?
FRIEDEN: I was referring to the border of the three countries in Africa."
REP. BLACKBURN: Oh, referring to that border, not our porous border."".
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Added: If you don't want to die from Ebola you're a "racist:"
10/16/14, "MSNBC Calls GOP Ebola Criticism ‘Not Even Thinly-Veiled Racism’," Daily Caller, Alex Griswold
"Want a selective travel ban? Think the Mexican border should be secured? Turns out you’re not concerned about the spread of Ebola, you’re actually a really horrible bigot. At least, that was the stance of MSNBC hosts Alex Wagner and Joy Reid. The host of “Now with Alex Wagner” played clips of Republican lawmakers and conservative commentators criticizing President Obama and the CDC’s handling of the Ebola crisis, accusing them of
“not even thinly-veiled racism.”
“That stuff is incredible,” Wagner said, referring to criticisms from Republican lawmakers, Glenn Beck, and Bill O’Reilly. “He is their president, Joy. I mean, it’s not even thinly veiled racism at this point.” (RELATED: Worried About Ebola? Then You’re A RACIST!)
Reid agreed: “No, and I’m glad you called it a racial stew because it is kinda like the perfect storm. You have an African, God forbid, flies into the United States, and you have all of these sort of issues of immigration sort of thrown into it.”"...
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"Ebola Gay" en route:
Aug. 6, 1945, Enola Gay dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Above image courtesy of Free Republic commenter, "posted on 10/16/2014, 3:05:50 PM by kik5150" on thread discussing Ebola news story.
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