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2014-10-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Bobby 2014-10-05 10:16|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Duncan needs to go to jail for a long time. Sounds like criminal recklessness or something like that.

Posted by gorb 2014-10-05 11:03|| 2014-10-05 11:03|| Front Page Top

#2 There was talk a few days ago (in Dallas) about prosecuting him for reckless endangerment, or something like that.

Posted by Bobby 2014-10-05 11:05|| 2014-10-05 11:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Bobby - he could only be prosecuted if he lives long enough and unfortunately, that doesn't help anyone he may have infected.

Posted by warthogswife 2014-10-05 11:53|| 2014-10-05 11:53|| Front Page Top

#4 A plan is just a list of things that can go wrong.

Posted by RandomJD 2014-10-05 11:56|| 2014-10-05 11:56|| Front Page Top

#5 The people that should be 'prosecuted' sit in Washington D.C. This poor bastid's a deader.

Some possible Obama logic: Of course it wouldn't be fair if the only people to suffer from Ebola were folks on the continent of Africa. Real solutions will come only when Americans become infected and share in the burden and costs.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-10-05 12:01|| 2014-10-05 12:01|| Front Page Top

#6 What this shows is, there are plans , and then there's reality.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-10-05 12:21|| 2014-10-05 12:21|| Front Page Top

#7 In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.

Posted by Steve White 2014-10-05 12:29|| 2014-10-05 12:29|| Front Page Top

#8 and Dr. Steve - he had a visa, not a US passport. We have no reason to issue Visas to these countries right now

Posted by Frank G 2014-10-05 12:48|| 2014-10-05 12:48|| Front Page Top

#9 What this shows is, there are plans , and then there's reality.

We don't really know what President Passive Aggressive's plans were or are though.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-10-05 13:16|| 2014-10-05 13:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Actually, it's pretty simple. Any crisis that chews up the media cycle and camouflages his ineptness and misdeeds is good for the Champ.

Border closures for any reason is a non- sequitur for the Champ. He doesn't recognize international borders anyway, particularly our own.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-10-05 13:25|| 2014-10-05 13:25|| Front Page Top

#11 I expected Andromida Strain.
What I got was Airplane!

Snark aside, when the prez is going about saying come to America and I will give you citizenship (and all its wellfare) and health care, everyone listens; not just the latino vote bloc.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-10-05 13:59|| 2014-10-05 13:59|| Front Page Top

#12 The problem is there was no real plan. Duncan showed up, exposed people and died while our bureaucratic wheels barely moved.

More infected are coming and it seems we still have no plan except blame someone else.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-10-05 15:10|| 2014-10-05 15:10|| Front Page Top

#13 And then there's top men in positions of authority recklessly playing with fire:
"Liberal Judge Drives Ebola Exposed Family, Attends Presser Wearing Same Shirt"

With Ebola there are many unknowns. As far as the dynamics of a big, multi-regional Ebola outbreak are concerned virtually everything is unknown because it has never happened before.

The good news is that these are known unknowns.

The bad news is that gormless idiots like this judge are turning these known unknowns into unknown unknowns in their precious little minds in order to justify treating this threat like any given demented 'internet challenge.'

Sometimes good plans fail, sometimes they're sabotaged be reckless and irresponsible poseurs.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-10-05 15:33|| 2014-10-05 15:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Maybe they think this is like AIDS.

Posted by gorb 2014-10-05 16:03|| 2014-10-05 16:03|| Front Page Top

#15 Maybe they think this is like AIDS.
Posted by: gorb 2014-10-05 16:03

Gorb,

Good point - remember how the media kept insisting that eventually AIDS would 'break out'? Didn't happen. I'd bet that a LOT of people are thinking the same thing here.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2014-10-05 17:35|| 2014-10-05 17:35|| Front Page Top

#16 Yep, that too. My original idea was that they are unconsciously thinking that something that deadly could only be passed on by having sex with the person. Duncan probably thought he was safe.

Posted by gorb 2014-10-05 20:51|| 2014-10-05 20:51|| Front Page Top

#17 That judge is a well known idiot - he's the one that volunteered Dallas to take all those illegal alien "children".

FYI, Duncan is dead. Ebola works quickly.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-05 21:05|| 2014-10-05 21:05|| Front Page Top

#18 The death report is single source, so accord it skeptiicism until confirmed with at least one other credible source.

And I don't mean anything from Alex Jones and the infowars retards.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-05 21:10|| 2014-10-05 21:10|| Front Page Top

#19 You know he spent the first few days here banging his fiancee. At this point he is dead, and she is fucked.

Other than her, everyone else he exposed is going to turn up with symptoms in the next week. Based on what happened in Nigeria, probably at least two or three. The public health people need to swoop those people up and get them into isolation. Then they will infect no one and this event will end.

Posted by rammer 2014-10-05 21:22|| 2014-10-05 21:22|| Front Page Top

#20 Until the next importation, that is. Maybe one every few weeks - more? less? - for as long as the outbreak in Africa continues.

Posted by RandomJD 2014-10-05 22:47|| 2014-10-05 22:47|| Front Page Top

#21 yes, one or two every month until this subsides there. make sure you have food and water for 21 days, on the off chance it happens in your town.

Posted by rammer 2014-10-05 23:29|| 2014-10-05 23:29|| Front Page Top

#22 Can't desk check and rubber stamp Pandemic plans.

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