A Very Useful Ebola Pandemic

by JASmius

Once again, I report, you decide:

As fears of the largest Ebola outbreak in recorded history continue to alarm an increasing number of Americans, many of the country's top health institutions are doing what they can to tamp down fears of widespread pestilence....

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of infectious diseases at National Institutes of Health, told CNN's New Day on Thursday that if by chance the deadly virus crosses the Atlantic Ocean and shows up in the United States, the nation will be ready.

“Certainly it’s conceivable that someone can get infected in West Africa and be without symptoms and get on a plane and come to the United States… but the spread of it would be highly, highly unlikely,” he said.

Well.  That's reassuring.  Especially with hundreds of thousands of disease-ridden illegals pouring across the southern border and being ferried all over the country to unsuspecting communities by the Obama Regime.  Including a not insignificant percentage from....west Africa.  But don't worry, "We'll be ready," says the same bunch that brought you the glitch-free ObamaCare rollout, and the experts on consulate security, and so very much more.  Yep, that's good enough for me. <cough>

Meanwhile, the royal scepter doesn't seem to have that same level of cover-confidence:

As the Ebola outbreak continues to cause concern, President Barack Obama has signed an amendment to an executive order that would allow him to order the apprehension and detention of Americans who merely show signs of “respiratory illness.”

The executive order, titled Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases, amendsexecutive order 13295, passed by George W. Bush in April 2003, which allows for the, “apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases.”

The amendment signed by Obama replaces subsection (b) of the original Bush executive order which referred only to SARS. Obama’s amendment allows for the detention of Americans who display, “Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled.”

Although Ebola was listed on the original executive order signed by Bush, Obama’s amendment ensures that Americans who merely show signs of respiratory illness, with the exception of influenza, can be forcibly detained by medical authorities. [emphasis added]

The party line?  "We've got it handled."  The reality?  "We've got YOU handled."  Or, in plain, non-Vulcan English, there is no crisis that Barack Hussein Obama will EVER be unprepared to tyrannically exploit.



I'd start stocking up on cough drops if I were y'all.