If You Want to Live, Ignore the CDC
Exclusive: Dr. Richard Amerling warns government incapable
of protecting citizenry
I almost feel sorry for Tom Frieden, director of the CDC
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). So many of his pronouncements
have been eviscerated by events within hours or days. He has become a punchline
and should resign for the good of the country.
Unfortunately, the Ebola crisis is no joke. Two Dallas
nurses (who are special people in my book) have now become infected after
taking care of an Ebola-infected patient who illegally flew to the U.S. when he
knew he had been heavily exposed to the deadly virus.
To maintain, as does Dr. Frieden,
that stopping travel to the U.S. from the few countries where Ebola is running
rampant would somehow harm us is illogical to the point of absurdity. And it is
now clear to every other sentient being that Ebola is far more contagious, and
deadly, than AIDS, to which Dr. Frieden compared Ebola. The latest nugget is
that Amber Vinson, the second Dallas nurse diagnosed with Ebola, called the CDC
numerous times before boarding her flight from Cleveland back to Dallas and was
told it was OK
for her to fly because her fever did not quite
reach the protocolized threshold!
Michelle Malkin describes how the
CDC has
been diverted from its original role into one of
political “transformation.” Rather than fight disease, the CDC now pushes for
mandatory motorcycle helmet laws, and studies playground accidents, video games
and violence, and “social norming” in schools! No wonder it can’t handle Ebola.
This perversion of an organization
is par for the Obama golf course. It resembles the transformation of NASA
into a Muslim outreach group,
or sending our military men and women to fight Ebola in Liberia. This latter is
an outrageous abuse
of our already beaten-down military.
There should be generals resigning over this suicide mission.
Last week, Dan Henninger wrote in
the Wall Street Journal about “Killer
Bureaucracies”: “Ebola, the Secret Service,
Veterans Affairs, Obamacare’s rollout, the Centers for Disease Control, the
World Health Organization, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Behind all
these names are federal bureaucracies that are supposed to protect people or
help them. Instead they have been putting individuals at risk, or worse.”
It should be clear to all by now that federal bureaucracies
are either too corrupt, politicized, or incompetent to fulfill their core
missions. I recently learned a new acronym: POSIWID. The Purpose of Something
Is What It Does. This is a useful heuristic to cut through the mission
statements, and so-called good intentions of people and organizations. The
purpose of bureaucracies is to continually expand their payroll, budgets, and
missions to the point of becoming massive, inefficient, and deadly. The federal
government is institutionally incapable of protecting the citizenry.
We will have to take care of
ourselves if we want to survive. Waiting for more CDC directives and guidelines
is worse than counterproductive. There were apparently many
lapses in “protocol” in Dallas, including
sending the infected patient’s blood samples to the lab through the hospital’s
pneumatic tube system.
Individual hospitals must act now to
train personnel to deal with Ebola patients. Specialized
referral hospitals can and will be set up, but all
hospitals must be prepared for an Ebola admission. Appropriate protective gear
and respirators must be on hand, and staff trained in how to use them. The
issue of waste disposal is critical and must be addressed now.
But we shouldn’t need to deal with Ebola in the U.S. The importation
of this dread disease must be stopped at the border.
In the absence of a federal ban on
travel from affected countries, airlines should independently refuse to fly
anyone who recently visited a region where the disease is endemic. Airlines can
and do perform separate screening prior to travel to the U.S. Failing to do
this places their crew and passengers at risk of infection. British
Airways and Air
France have already instituted travel
bans.
And we must insist on securing our southern border. This is
perhaps the greatest failure of the federal government and places the entire
country in jeopardy.
Richard
Amerling, M.D., is an
associate professor of clinical medicine and a renowned academic nephrologist
at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Amerling studied
medicine at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, graduating cum laude
in 1981. He completed a medical residency at the New York Hospital Queens and a
nephrology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He has
written and lectured extensively on health-care issues and is president-elect of
the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Amerling is the author
of the “Physicians’ Declaration of Independence” and is a seasoned speaker and
on-air contributor.
Source:
http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/if-you-want-to-live-ignore-the-cdc/
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