Ebola In America: Day 9 And Prostitution Scandal in the White House
Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Day 9: Ebola in America - Obama Administration officials announced yesterday that five major U.S. airports will begin additional temperature screenings of passengers from West Africa. These screenings won't begin until Saturday at the earliest. Critics are already concluding that this is not a serious measure.
Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University, told the New York Times, "There's a sense that this is a be-all-and-end-all and that this will put up an iron curtain, but it won't."
Schaffner and others are referring to the fact that Ebola has a long incubation period. An individual could be infected for two weeks before symptoms, such as fever, show up. Such screening would not have prevented Thomas Duncan from entering the country.
Anyone looking to avoid detection could take readily available medications like Advil to mask the fever. Beyond that, officials are also questioning the effectiveness of the body temperature scanners. Consider this excerpt from The Guardian:
"In a guidance paper produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for airport and public health officials, the agency lists what it sees as problems with the devices, including cost, lack of precision, need for frequent calibration and maintenance and training requirements."
The new screening is not reassuring airport workers either. About 200 workers who clean airplanes at LaGuardia Airport have gone on strike, complaining about the potential exposure to Ebola (among other things). I sympathize with the cleaning crews since the Obama Administration is obviously unwilling to impose travel restrictions that would do more to protect these workers than ineffective body scans.
Meanwhile, we have learned that a Dallas County Sheriff's deputy was placed in isolation yesterday afternoon at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital for exhibiting possible symptoms of Ebola. A definitive blood test takes 48 hours.
Elsewhere around the world, the number of confirmed cases of Ebola in West Africa now exceeds 8,000. More than 3,800 people have died. Six more individuals are in isolation at a hospital in Madrid, Spain, while the condition of a nurse who contracted Ebola has deteriorated. A nurse in Australia who had been working in Sierra Leone is in isolation after developing a fever.
All these incidents can be contained, but public confidence in the government's ability to do so appears to be declining and the economic and political consequences are unknown.
White House Prostitution Scandal - The Washington Post has a major front page story today leveling accusations of corruption and cover-ups against the Obama White House over the Secret Service prostitution scandal in April 2012.
Nearly a dozen Secret Service agents and several members of the military were disciplined for "curfew violations" and procuring the services of prostitutes during a trip to South America. Some lost their jobs. Throughout the course of this scandal, the White House repeatedly denied that any of its staff members were involved in any way.
Now that appears to be a lie. Separate investigations at that time revealed that a member of the White House advance team (the son of a major Democrat donor) was in fact involved in the misconduct. This information was given to the White House on at least two occasions. And both times, it was swept under the rug.
Not only was the information ignored, but Obama's cronies punished the investigators.
David Nieland, an investigator for the Inspector General's office at the Department of Homeland Security, says he was pressured by superiors to "withhold and alter certain information in the report . . . because it was potentially embarrassing to the administration" and "to delay the report of the investigation until after the 2012 election."
The investigator said that he and two other staffers were put on administrative leave when they objected to changes in their report.
Benghazi. Operation Fast and Furious. The IRS Tea Party scandal. The VA scandal. Not protecting America from Ebola. Now a White House foreign prostitution scandal and cover-up.
Every Republican candidate should make Obama's culture of corruption and government reform a major part of their daily talking points!
By the way, you'll never guess what the philandering White House staffer is doing now. He's working at the State Department's Office on Global Women's Issues. And why not? After all, it seems his time at the White House gave him "hands on experience" with global women's issues.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families
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Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University, told the New York Times, "There's a sense that this is a be-all-and-end-all and that this will put up an iron curtain, but it won't."
Schaffner and others are referring to the fact that Ebola has a long incubation period. An individual could be infected for two weeks before symptoms, such as fever, show up. Such screening would not have prevented Thomas Duncan from entering the country.
Anyone looking to avoid detection could take readily available medications like Advil to mask the fever. Beyond that, officials are also questioning the effectiveness of the body temperature scanners. Consider this excerpt from The Guardian:
"In a guidance paper produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for airport and public health officials, the agency lists what it sees as problems with the devices, including cost, lack of precision, need for frequent calibration and maintenance and training requirements."
The new screening is not reassuring airport workers either. About 200 workers who clean airplanes at LaGuardia Airport have gone on strike, complaining about the potential exposure to Ebola (among other things). I sympathize with the cleaning crews since the Obama Administration is obviously unwilling to impose travel restrictions that would do more to protect these workers than ineffective body scans.
Meanwhile, we have learned that a Dallas County Sheriff's deputy was placed in isolation yesterday afternoon at Texas Health Presbyterian hospital for exhibiting possible symptoms of Ebola. A definitive blood test takes 48 hours.
Elsewhere around the world, the number of confirmed cases of Ebola in West Africa now exceeds 8,000. More than 3,800 people have died. Six more individuals are in isolation at a hospital in Madrid, Spain, while the condition of a nurse who contracted Ebola has deteriorated. A nurse in Australia who had been working in Sierra Leone is in isolation after developing a fever.
All these incidents can be contained, but public confidence in the government's ability to do so appears to be declining and the economic and political consequences are unknown.
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Nearly a dozen Secret Service agents and several members of the military were disciplined for "curfew violations" and procuring the services of prostitutes during a trip to South America. Some lost their jobs. Throughout the course of this scandal, the White House repeatedly denied that any of its staff members were involved in any way.
Now that appears to be a lie. Separate investigations at that time revealed that a member of the White House advance team (the son of a major Democrat donor) was in fact involved in the misconduct. This information was given to the White House on at least two occasions. And both times, it was swept under the rug.
Not only was the information ignored, but Obama's cronies punished the investigators.
David Nieland, an investigator for the Inspector General's office at the Department of Homeland Security, says he was pressured by superiors to "withhold and alter certain information in the report . . . because it was potentially embarrassing to the administration" and "to delay the report of the investigation until after the 2012 election."
The investigator said that he and two other staffers were put on administrative leave when they objected to changes in their report.
Benghazi. Operation Fast and Furious. The IRS Tea Party scandal. The VA scandal. Not protecting America from Ebola. Now a White House foreign prostitution scandal and cover-up.
Every Republican candidate should make Obama's culture of corruption and government reform a major part of their daily talking points!
By the way, you'll never guess what the philandering White House staffer is doing now. He's working at the State Department's Office on Global Women's Issues. And why not? After all, it seems his time at the White House gave him "hands on experience" with global women's issues.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families
Tags: Day 9, Ebola in America, Ebola, White House prostitution, scandal, Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
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