Unpublished CDC Study Confirms over 2 Million Annual Defensive Gun Uses

Study by #CDC

NEVER RELEASED affirms previous estimates of 2.5 Million defensive gun uses per year‼️#LEFT has decided the ONLY way to win debates is to conceal information & censor conservative voices

Many of us on @Twitter have been censored 🤬 https://t.co/LdJFl99at7

— Scott Barbour (@drscott_atlanta) April 21, 2018

Calif's deadly flu season could be worst in decade

Calif's deadly flu season could be worst in decade https://t.co/5bsxu11p7Z pic.twitter.com/czQ1GFUxqs

— SFGate (@SFGate) January 10, 2018

FYI: CDC acknowledged that "nasal spray" flu vaccine didn’t work & should not be used during the 2016-2017 season

CDC acknowledged that "nasal spray" #flu vaccine didn’t work & should not be used during the 2016-2017 seasonhttps://t.co/1t2x1ngJAM pic.twitter.com/GguTUoIQsC

— Vera Burnayev (@LotusOak) December 14, 2016

CDC Official Calls Obama Worst President, Amateur, Marxist After Influx of Illegal Alien Minors

CDC Official Calls Obama Worst President, Amateur, Marxist After Influx of Illegal Alien Minors: Following the... http://t.co/m0NG1HkOAk

— Judicial Watch (@JudicialWatch) July 2, 2015

This year's flu shots look like poor match for circulating viruses

◼ Only 48% of the 85 samples of H3N2 influenza viruses that have been tested since Oct. 1 are closely related to the A/Texas/50/2012 strain that was picked for the flu vaccine distributed in North America, according to the agency. Most of the rest of the H3N2 samples were similar to a strain called A/Switzerland/9715293, which was picked for the flu vaccine for the Southern Hemisphere. - LA Times

◼ This season’s flu vaccine may not be as effective against new and possibly more virulent strains of the virus that could become the nation’s dominant form of influenza in the young flu season. - Charlotte Observer

The emergence of a mutated flu virus has caused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue a national health advisory urging caregivers to prescribe the antiviral medications Tamiflu and Relenza to suspected flu patients, even before they’ve been confirmed to have the virus.

...Antivirals are most effective when taken within 48 hours of the onset of flu symptoms. But fewer than one in six flu patients actually get the drugs, Frieden said.

“It’s very important that we do better. We need to get the message out that treating early with these drugs can make a difference between having a milder illness or a very severe illness,” Frieden said.

Many doctors don’t prescribe antivirals because they mistakenly believe that patients must first be tested for the virus. Others just aren’t familiar with using antivirals for flu treatment because they’re most effective in treating bacterial infections, Frieden said.

The drifted viruses were first detected in March. Frieden said their emergence could have resulted from their attempts to escape the immunity being developed by widespread vaccination. The drifted viruses became prominent in September when it was too late to include them in this year’s vaccine formula. It takes four months to make the vaccine....

Currently, four different strains of flu are circulating in the U.S., and “only time will tell which of them, if any, will predominate for the following weeks and months of this year’s flu season,” Frieden said....

BREAKING: Ebola Nurse’s Ties to CDC Scrubbed From Website

◼ Quarantined Ebola Nurse, Kaci Hickox is a card carrying Progressive and CDC EIS Officer. - Gateway Pundit

The Ebola nurse who attacked Governor Christie for putting her in quarantine after returning from Africa is a Progressive with ties to the CDC.

◼ Her LinkedIn profile was scrubbed this weekend: Profile Not Found

◼ UPDATED: Released Ebola Nurse Kaci Hickox Works For CDC…Her Lawyer Is A White House Visitor - Patrick Howley/Daily Caller

...Hickox was a Class of 2012 member of CDC’s two-year EIS officer training program, according to the official program for CDC’s 2014 EIS Conference (p. 98), which was held from April 28 to May 1, 2014.... “During the 2-year training program, EIS officers are employees of the CDC and receive a salary and benefits. Salaries range from $65,000 to 90,000 per year, based on qualifications and experience,” according to CDC’s website....

OOPS!!!!! MAINE DOESN'T WANT EBOLA NURSE: “Mainers against Kaci Hickox returning home to Fort Kent Maine.” http://t.co/Tg9tWklpvh #tcot

— slone (@slone) October 28, 2014

Govt. Researchers: Flu Shots Not Effective in Elderly, After All

Govt. Researchers: Flu Shots Not Effective in Elderly, After All http://t.co/CTrC9WgGsR

— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) October 27, 2014

One of the most instructive things at the time, for me, was when govt researchers told me that even though all the studies showed flu shots

— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) October 27, 2014

didn't work in the elderly, they figured the STUDIES were wrong because they "knew" flu shots worked! Kind of reminds me of today's CDC

— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) October 27, 2014

Ebola in New York: Feel O.K.?

◼ link - Nick Paumgarten/New Yorker Magazine

...But the Spencer scenario is a provocation. The germ trail, a sequence of familiar banalities, hits home. First, the apartment building: minds turn to door handles and elevator buttons. Next, the subway, including the L train, an essential interborough connector. Those of us fearless about gripping handrails might now think twice. Uber: the nifty new conveyance, abruptly associated with an alliterative plague. The High Line: the virus, like any tourist, hitting the hot spots on a tour of Bloombergian New York. Finally, the bowling: as a precaution, the parlor, called (evocatively) the Gutter, shut down, and a concert there was cancelled. You don’t have to be a germaphobe to have misgivings about the finger holes in bowling balls, but the mention of Ebola has the effect of a shark fin seen at the beach. Everybody out. The Ebowla jokes appeared early and often.

Did Spencer take the risk of infection too lightly, or was he acting rationally? Are we?

◼ CITY OFFICIALS IN DESPERATE SEARCH FOR EBOLA DRUG - NY Daily News

Hospital staffers call in 'sick'... http://t.co/iV1dpEGt1Q

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) October 25, 2014

Quarantined Nurse Criticizes Treatment at Newark... http://t.co/NEpMRHgERW

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) October 25, 2014

'Barked questions at me as if I was a criminal'... http://t.co/w24NSbTaOA

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) October 25, 2014

Tests Negative...

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) October 25, 2014

Rules cause civil-liberties concern...

FREAKOUT: Predictably American response... http://t.co/VG7AWPySC0

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) October 26, 2014

Ebola crisis rekindles concerns about secret research in Russian military labs... http://t.co/O0ePri4NNZ

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) October 25, 2014

De Blasio Not Notified of NY Quarantine By Cuomo Before Announcement: NEW YORK, New York -- New York City Mayo... http://t.co/iH8Ukdaj62

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 25, 2014

Who Do They Think We Are?

◼ The administration’s Ebola evasions reveal its disdain for the American people. - Peggy Noonan/Wall St.Journal

The administration’s handling of the Ebola crisis continues to be marked by double talk, runaround and gobbledygook. And its logic is worse than its language. In many of its actions, especially its public pronouncements, the government is functioning not as a soother of public anxiety but the cause of it.

An example this week came in the dialogue between Megyn Kelly of Fox News and Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control....

In testimony before Congress Thursday, Dr. Frieden was not much more straightforward. His answers often sound like filibusters: long, rolling paragraphs of benign assertion, advertising slogans—“We know how to stop Ebola,” “Our focus is protecting people”—occasionally extraneous data, and testimony to the excellence of our health-care professionals.

It is my impression that everyone who speaks for the government on this issue has been instructed to imagine his audience as anxious children. It feels like how the pediatrician talks to the child, not the parents. It’s as if they’ve been told: “Talk, talk, talk, but don’t say anything. Clarity is the enemy.”

The language of government now is word-spew....

All of which returns me to my thoughts the past few weeks. Back then I’d hear the official wordage that doesn’t amount to a logical thought, and the unspoken air of “We don’t want to panic you savages,” and I’d look at various public officials and muse: “Who do you think you are?”

Now I think, “Who do they think we are?”

Does the government think if America is made to feel safer, she will forget the needs of the Ebola nations? But Americans, more than anyone else, are the volunteers, altruists and in a few cases saints who go to the Ebola nations to help. And they were doing it long before the Western media was talking about the disease, and long before America was experiencing it.

◼ Could It Possibly Get Any Worse? - Roger L. Simon/PJM

BUCHANAN: "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS COULD KILL A LOT OF US"

DRUDGE HEADLINES:
◼ FRESH NIGHTMARE FOR THE LAND OF EBOLA: FOOD - Independent UK
◼ Dallas' Top Public Health Epidemiologist Being Monitored - CBS DFW
◼ Hospital Had Screening Machine Military Using in Africa - DefenseOne

The military is using an Ebola screening machine that could have diagnosed the Ebola cases in Texas far faster, but government guidelines prevent hospitals from using it to actually screen for Ebola.

◼ Officials Scramble to Find Shoppers at Bridal Store Visited by Ebola Patient - CBS Cleveland
◼ TX health workers receiving orders to stay home - AP
◼ Lab worker 'self-quarantined' -- on cruise ship in Caribbean? - CBS DC

The government of Belize reportedly released a statement on Thursday saying it had rejected a U.S. request to allow the cruise passenger to pass through the Philip S.W. Goldson International Airport, which services the Belizean capital.

◼ Texas-Based Carnival Magic Cruise Ship Stuck At Sea With 4,633 Passengers and Dallas Healthcare Worker With Ebola Symptoms – Belize Refuses Port Entry – Belizeans Saying “Sink Ship” – Armed Belize Coast Guard Keeping Ship At Sea… - The Conservative Treehouse
◼ CDC told Carnival about the Ebola threat on Oct. 15, but didn’t tell Congress at the Oct. 16 hearing? - Twitchy

@FoxNews ok, let's see, one on a plane, one on a cruise ship this time of year......does this sound like its precautionary measures??

— RJV (@fx454) October 17, 2014

At this point, somebody should ask Dr. Frieden if there is any health worker in Dallas who treated Duncan that didn’t travel someplace. What’s with these people?

Oh, and this problem only gets worse from here:

Houston a problem! How will @CarnivalCruise santize 14 deck #Ebolaship sea 5d ?..then @CDCgov contact trace 4633 ppl? http://t.co/Bx6xiSLeyL

— Elizabeth Goodale (@LizGoodale) October 17, 2014

And all the crew. And all the people she might have interacted with on a shore excursion. Etc., etc., etc.

◼ Solace in USA with Sanitizer, Prayer - Bloomberg
◼ First Video of Infected Nurse: 'Come party in Maryland' - The Blaze
◼ PAPER: Fears have cast suspicions on Africans - Washington Post
◼ Growing chorus for travel ban - The Hill
◼ CRUZ: CONGRESS SHOULD BE CALLED BACK - Bloomberg
◼ BUCHANAN: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS COULD KILL A LOT OF US... - World Net Daily

In dealing with contagious and deadly diseases, common sense says to err on the side of safety. Public safety must come before political correctness. Community and country come ahead of any obligation to the people of West Africa.

Indeed, is not the first duty of the government of the United States to protect the lives, liberty and property of the citizens of the United States?

◼ Protester In Mask, Hazmat Gear Stumps Outside White House - CBS DC
◼ Alarm after vomiting passenger dies on flight from Nigeria to JFK - NY Post
◼ MAG: Six Reasons to Panic - The Weekly Standard
◼ University disinvites Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist over Liberia travel - Washington Post
◼ POLL: CDC approval sags 23 points - Politico
◼ O taps Ebola 'czar' - CNN

◼ 8 People In Ohio Under Quarantine As Officials Looking For Shoppers At Bridal Store Nurse With Ebola Visited - CBS Clevland ◼ Via Lucianne

◼ Ebola and the Failure of the Administrative State - The Federalist ◼ Via Lucianne

When it comes to Ebola, it’s becoming clear that government “everywhere putting its hands to new undertakings” isn’t working out all that well.

◼ How the Feds block Ebola cures - NY Post ◼ Via Lucianne

The CDC maintains a quarantine station in Dallas, as well as in Houston; and yet they have not moved suspected Ebola patients to these facilities

◼ Texas Officials And Healthcare Workers: “Imminent Ebola Epidemic Is A Certainty” In America - WJ

Staff at Governor Perry’s office have told healthcare workers that, in congruence with federal law, the Centers for Disease Control is leading the effort to combat Ebola–but privately admit that the CDC has made hardly any effort to do so.

The CDC maintains a quarantine station in Dallas, as well as in Houston; and yet they have not moved suspected Ebola patients to these facilities.

Not only are hospitals and state agencies unable to afford hazmat suit for medical staff, but most suppliers are out of stock. This comes after the U.S. Department of State recently ordered 160,000 hazmat suits and 5,000 body bags.

◼ Ebola Has Killed More Than 200 Doctors, Nurses, And Other Healthcare Workers Since June - Forbes

The allegations that the Dallas nurses didn’t have sufficient protections against Ebola are disturbing — more on those in a second — but the infection pattern keeps with a sad trend: A disproportionate number of people who were sickened with Ebola in West Africa were health care workers, too.

Doctors Without Borders this week said that 16 of its staff had contracted Ebola in the current outbreak, and nine had died from the disease. Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, the doctor who heroically led Sierra Leone’s fight against Ebola, got sick and died in July; his colleagues opted not to give him the experimental ZMapp cocktail, which appears to have helped treat several Ebola patients....Around the globe, about 400 health care staff have contracted Ebola, and more than 230 have died....

According to Texas Health nurses, they had no clear understanding of the protocols to treat Ebola patients. As Sarah Kliff details at Vox, trying to follow a visual guide to don and remove gear designed to protect against Ebola requires 21 separate steps and is a long, intense process.

◼ Dr. Sanjay Gupta suits up & removes personal protective equipment that the CDC recommends when treating an Ebola patient - CNN

◼ It gets worse. - Ace Of Spades

EBOLA STRIKES SECOND DALLAS HOSPITAL WORKER

◼ The worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital was monitoring herself for symptoms, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said. The unidentified woman reported a fever Tuesday. She was in isolation within 90 minutes, Jenkins said. - Breitbart

Health officials said the worker was among those who took care of Thomas Eric Duncan, who was diagnosed with Ebola after coming to the U.S. from Liberia. Duncan died Oct. 8.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was conducting confirmatory testing of a preliminary Ebola test conducted late Tuesday at a state public health laboratory in Austin, Texas, which came back positive.

Emergency responders in hazardous materials suits began work before dawn Wednesday to decontaminate the Dallas apartment of the second hospital worker. Notices handed out to neighbors, advise them that "a health care worker who lives in your area has tested positive for Ebola."

It's not clear how the second health care worker contracted the virus, and authorities declined to say what position she holds at the hospital or the type of care she provided.

◼ DRUDGE:
NIGHTMARE: EBOLA PATIENT FLEW DAY BEFORE...
Nurses outraged: 'There was no protocol, there was no system'...
Hospital's workers learned how to control Ebola as they went along...
Blood, vomit and diarrhea-soaked hazardous materials piled to ceiling...
Frieden regrets slow response...
Dallas Mayor: 'It May Get Worse'...
Hospital Cafeteria Abandoned...
CDC watching 125...
Researchers say more in USA based on flight patterns...
TX College 'Not Accepting International Students From Countries With Confirmed Cases'...
Lab Developing Device to Identify Ebola Virus in 10 Minutes...
WHO predicts 10,000 new cases -- per week...
Outbreak Expanding Geographically...
Liberia health ministry requests 79,940 body bags...
Death rate reaches 70%...
UN WARNS: 60 DAYS TO BEAT...
West Africans in US struggle to help...

HALLOWEEN EBOLA COSTUMES CAUSE CONTROVERSY..
Knowingly Traveled With 'Low-Grade Fever'...
PLANE MADE 5 FLIGHTS BEFORE TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE...
Airline Stocks Nosediving...
Passenger Wears HAZMAT To Dulles Airport...
Panic Hits TV News Divisions...
CDC says it missed opportunities to contain...
Obama cancels fundraising trip...

OBAMA Planned To Cut CDC Budget For Public Health Preparedness And Response

◼ President Obama proposed to cut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) funding in his fiscal year 2012 budget proposal. - DAILY CALLER

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is currently blasting out ads accusing Republicans of voting to cut CDC’s Ebola-fighting capabilities in February 2011 by voting for a bill to cut $60 billion from the federal budget, including from the CDC, in anticipation of the fiscal year 2012 budget battle. The House passed the bill on Feb. 19, 2011, but the bill never passed the Senate.

But the Obama administration proposed to cut CDC funding, including for public health preparedness and response, in its very own budget proposal released the very same week as the House vote.

Obama’s original budget plan for fiscal year 2012 cut funding for a CDC public health emergency preparedness program by $72 million. The proposed cuts would have taken money away from municipal and state health departments to hire health workers and monitor for public health hazards and disease outbreaks.

NIGHTMARE: 70 STAFFERS CARED FOR DALLAS PATIENT...

◼ They drew his blood, put tubes down his throat and wiped up his diarrhea. They analyzed his urine and wiped saliva from his lips, even after he had lost consciousness. - AP

About 70 staff members at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital were involved in the care of Thomas Eric Duncan after he was hospitalized, including a nurse now being treated for the same Ebola virus that killed the Liberian man who was visiting Dallas, according to medical records his family provided to The Associated Press.

The size of the medical team reflects the hospital's intense effort to save Duncan's life, but it also suggests that many other people could have been exposed to the virus during Duncan's time in an isolation unit.

DRUDGE:
◼ 'MOST SEVERE HEALTH EMERGENCY IN MODERN TIMES' - AP
'EBOLA HOSPITAL' PLANNED FOR ALL 50 STATES...
◼ WHO predicts 10,000 new cases per week&
CDC: 'Think Ebola'...
Doctors Without Borders loses 9 medics to disease...
Death rate reaches 70 percent...
Officials warn of 'irrational' efforts to avoid virus...
Passenger on flight from JFK to LAX sparks scare...
COPS: Man In Surgical Mask Boards LA Bus, Tells Driver, 'Don't Mess With Me, I Have Ebola'...
Hazmats Board Flight in Boston...
Commander: 'Mass Migration' of Infected Would Cross Border in Outbreak...
UN worker dies in Germany...
Island vacation season spawns fears...
◼ SCHLAFLY: GOV'T HAS FAILED TO PROTECT

Texas nurse fighting Ebola receives blood transfusion from survivor Dr Kent Brantly

◼ Texas nurse fighting Ebola receives blood transfusion from survivor Dr Kent Brantly - who also matched blood types with two others struck by the deadly virus in the U.S.

Nina Pham, 26, has received blood transfusion from Dr Kent Brantly
Survivor Brantly also donated to Dr Nick Sacra and NBC's Ashoka Mukpo
Antibodies in his blood could help the patients fight the disease
Pham caught the Ebola virus while treating Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas
Miss Pham was raised in Vietnamese family in Fort Worth and graduated from Texas Christian University in 2010 with Bachelor of Science in Nursing
HazChem teams spent the weekend fumigating her Dallas apartment
Authorities have blamed a 'breach of protocol' - but nursing leaders have criticized the CDC for making her a scapegoat

Those who have survived Ebola have antibodies in their blood which can help new sufferers beat the disease.

Dr Kent Brantly was flown back from Liberia to the U.S. after contracting Ebola during his missionary work for Samaritan's Purse.

He survived after receiving a dose of the experimental serum Z-Mapp and round-the-clock care at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.

On September 10, Dr Brantly donated blood to a fellow doctor, Dr Rick Sacra, who also contracted Ebola during his work in West Africa and survived the disease.

Last Tuesday, he was on a road trip from Indiana to Texas when he received a call from Ashoka Mukpo's medical center in Nebraska telling him his blood type matched Mukpo’s.

He also offered his blood to Thomas Eric Duncan but their blood types didn't match.

◼ Boyfriend of Nurse With Ebola May Also Have Ebola - WJ

CDC and the federal employee who doesn’t actually work for a living. Jonathan Last pulls out “The Stand” reference.

◼ Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Fauci argued against shutting down international travel from Africa, saying it could actually do more harm than good. — - Truth & Common Sense

First of all, if the system “worked,” we wouldn’t have another case of Ebola. The protocols set up to prevent transmission of the disease failed. “Failed” is not the same as working. In fact, outside of Washington, “failed” means “not working,” so who is this jamoke trying to kid?

Yeah, what he said.

If you think the CDC is really there to help, look no further then the coverup concerning the illegal immigrant kids pushed into neighborhoods and schools this summer. You would think someone at the CDC would make the same connections between the unfiltered entry into the closed environments of schools by UAC’s and the almost simultaneous outbreak of Enterovirus ev D68 across the nation. Right now we have six kids dead, more paralyzed and the CDC is looking like a deer caught in the headlights, stuck between what they know to do true and their political bosses, who want to remain in power by recruiting the Hispanic vote....

You have to be careful with what the CDC is saying now. The strain may be common, but THIS particular strain is not. The outbreak pattern is not common. What is common is the strain being in Central and South America, not here. So how did a particular strain of this virus get from there to here.

Let me give you a hint....

Ebola Scare Sends Dallas Co Sheriff’s Deputy To Hospital

◼ Report: Man who may or may not have had contact with Dallas Ebola patient now exhibiting similar symptons; Update: Wasn’t being monitored - HotAir

◼ Update: Frisco officials say risk is low that sheriff’s deputy who visited Duncan’s apartment has Ebola - Dallas News

Frisco officials say the chances are small that the sheriff’s deputy who fell ill after visiting Thomas Eric Duncan’s apartment last week has Ebola.

“The risk is minimal,” said Frisco’s Mayor Maher Maso, but they are proceeding “with an abundance of caution.”

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also said that this does not appear to be a case of Ebola. He isn’t showing typical symptoms and never came in direct contact with Duncan.

Frisco Fire Chief Mark Piland says the deputy is not among the 48 direct and indirect contacts being monitored closely, and health officials are treating this “as a low-risk event.” He says the patient told workers at CareNow, the Frisco urgent care facility where he went Wednesday, that he had been in Duncan’s apartment.

Piland said the patient was “minus a few” symptoms of Ebola, but he exhibited enough to trigger the preliminary screening process. As a result, he’ll be monitored for 48 hours.

◼ “We were told by federal officials, county officials that you would have to come in direct contact with Duncan or direct contact with bodily fluids, and he did not,” said Monnig’s son, Logan, about the possibility of his dad contracting Ebola. Logan said it’s a very scary time for his family, but they do not expect that his dad will test positive for the virus. - CBS DFW
◼ Breaking: New Ebola patient near Dallas? Update: Patient says he had contact with ‘patient zero'; Update: Patient is ‘exhibiting signs and symptoms of Ebola'; Update: Patient is reportedly being transported to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas; Update: Urgent Care clinic spokesman says patient did NOT come into contact with Thomas Duncan; Update: Photo of patient exiting Urgent Care clinic; Update: Local news outlet says patient is a Dallas County sheriff’s deputy who went inside Duncan’s apartment - Twitchy

BREAKING: City of Frisco says the fire department is in the process of transporting patient. pic.twitter.com/xvh655002V

— Meagan Harris (@MeaganMHarris) October 8, 2014

◼ The deputy had been ordered to go inside the unit with officials to get a quarantine order signed on October 1. No one who entered the apartment that day wore protective gear. - ABC/wfaa

It will take up to 48 hours to get test results back to determine if Monnig tests positive for the Ebola virus.

The Scariest Thing About Ebola

◼ What's more alarming than the disease is what the crisis says about our lack of trust in U.S. institutions and leaders. - Ron Fournier/National Journal

...Steadily, over the past four decades, the nation has lost faith in virtually every American institution: banks, schools, colleges, charities, unions, police departments, organized religion, big businesses, small businesses and, of course, politics and government. A Pew Research Center survey in October 2013 found trust in government at a near-record low. While specific federal agencies received generally high marks (including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Americans continued to lose faith in the presidency, Congress, and the two major parties.


In short, the United States faces crises of leadership and trust. Which, to me, is the scariest thing about the Ebola outbreak. I'm far less worried about the disease striking me or my loved ones than I am about what this incident says about the nation's ability to survive a true cataclysm. Whether the next existential event is Ebola or ISIS or any of the countless 21st-century horrors, we are only as strong as our institutions—and our trust in them....

Trust. There's that word again. How much faith can the public summon toward an administration that used incompetence as a defense in scandals involving the IRS, Benghazi, and Obamacare; that lied about its surveillance of Americans; and that just recently acknowledged dangerous misjudgments regarding the Secret Service and ISIS?

...Ebola is a serious threat, but it's not the disease that scares me. What scares me is that fact that we can't trust the institutions that are supposed to deal with such threats, and we can't trust the men or women who lead them. Which means they can't help us.

@FreeBeacon @ron_fournier "We have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long as we remain honest..". Thomas Jefferson

— Ken Hoagland (@kenhoagland) October 6, 2014

Ron Fournier: Obama's favorite defense to scandals in his Administration: incompetence. He's right. http://t.co/IQ1ZmoGZyM

— Ken Gardner (@kesgardner) October 6, 2014

#LDTPoll Are you surprised that Pres Obama refuses to take any action to relieve the fears of Americans on #Ebola? http://t.co/xYLSQupixq…

— Lou Dobbs (@loudobbsnews) October 6, 2014

TAMMY BRUCE: Containing the facts about #Ebola http://t.co/fdAcAnqUsW

— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) October 6, 2014

‘You’re the head of the CDC – are YOU STUPID?!’ – Judge Jeanine RIPS our Ebola response

◼ I have a feeling we’re going to look back at this week and sorely regret our government’s actions. - The Right Scoop

Plane At Newark Airport Held As CDC Investigates Sick Passenger For Ebola

◼ A plane at Newark Liberty International Airport, just 30 minutes outside of New York City, has been sealed over fears that a passenger on board is carrying the Ebola virus, according to a report. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating United Airlines Flight 998 from Brussels, after reports that a passenger had begun vomiting on the plane, CBS reported. - Laura Ingraham
◼ Vomiting passenger cleared of Ebola after CDC investigation at Newark Airport - NY Daily News

The passengers of a United Airlines flight from Brussels were quarantined over fears of the deadly virus that has already killed thousands in West Africa. Two passengers were taken to a Newark hospital for an illness that was not Ebola.