WHY WON’T OBAMA PROTECT US FROM EBOLA AND ILLEGAL ALIEN VIRUS CARRIERS

After a Liberian man brought the deadly disease to America last month, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, assured us: "We’ll stop Ebola in its tracks." CDC has protocols in place to protect against further spread of the disease, he said.

File that assurance alongside "you can keep your health plan it you want to," and "ISIS is a jayvee team."

There was a "breach of protocol," Dr. Frieden said last Sunday (10/12) when we learned nurse Nina Pham, 26, got Ebola despite wearing the waterproof gown, gloves, goggles and plastic face shield CDC said should have been enough to protect her.

More likely Ms. Pham’s protective gear was inadequate, said Bonnie Castillo, RN and disaster relief expert at National Nurses United. CDC’s safety instructions are "flawed and inaccurate," said Dr. Jonathan Reiner, laboratory director at George Washington University hospital.

After a second nurse who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan caught the deadly disease – and who CDC had permitted to fly despite having a fever — it was apparent Ebola spreads more easily than CDC said it could be; certain CDC’s assurance any hospital with an isolation ward can safely manage patients with Ebola was false.

Only four hospitals in the country are fully equipped to deal with Ebola victims. Eighty five percent of nurses surveyed by NNA said they hadn’t received Ebola training.

CDC will take steps to increase awareness of Ebola at the nation’s hospitals, Dr. Frieden said Monday.  Why didn’t CDC do this when the Ebola epidemic broke out in March?

"Now that the horse is some distance down the road, the government officials paid to prepare for emergencies, after being caught in their usual pants-around-their-ankles condition, are busily trying to find a lock for the barn door," an emergency room nurse posted on her blog.

Our unpreparedness for an Ebola epidemic makes it all the more imperative to bar entry to people from Ebola-ravaged countries. A quarantine is a must, experts say. But President Barack Hussein Obama won’t impose one.  Why not?

So far, just one person in America has died from Ebola. At least seven, mostly children, have died from Enterovirus D-68. There are more than 100 enteroviruses, ranging from the common cold to polio. EV D-68 has been very rare here. CDC has offered no explanation for this outbreak.

EV D-68 is common in Central America, from whence came the flood of illegal immigrant children. The outbreak was first reported in communities to which they were sent.  CDC refuses to connect the dots.  Why won’t it?

Illegals are bringing in diseases "we haven’t seen in decades," said Chris Cabrera, vice president of the Border Patrol Council. Border Patrolman Stu Harris said he called CDC to alert them, but officials blew him off. Inadequate health screening of the illegals threatens a public health crisis, Dr. Marc Siegel, who teaches medicine at New York University, warned in July.

The EV D-68 epidemic may be unrelated, but that’s not the way to bet.

There could be up to 10,000 new cases of Ebola per week by December, the World Health Organization estimated. If Ebola breaks out in Central America, it’ll trigger another mass migration into the United States, said the Marine general who heads U.S. Southern Command.

Only 19 percent in a Washington Post/ABC News poll Tuesday were "very" confident the government could prevent an Ebola outbreak; 64 percent said it should be doing more.

Spinning madly, ABC noted 43 percent were "somewhat" confident. But shouldn’t we be more than "somewhat confident" our government is doing all it can to protect us from an Ebola epidemic?

We can’t be, because it isn’t. His refusal to restrict entry of travelers from Ebola countries, and to secure the border from Central American illegal alien viruses make clear other things are more important to Mr. Obama than protecting Americans.

This clarity should thus bring into question Mr. Obama’s purpose for the government seizure of our health care system via Obamacare – for it cannot be an overriding determination to safeguard the health of American citizens.  What do you suppose that purpose could be?

Jack Kelly is a former Marine and Green Beret and a former deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force in the Reagan administration. He is national security writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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