Posts by BizzyBee

As I recall there was a similar trajectory with AIDS - ignorance about transmission, fear of contagion, a high mortality rate, etc., and now AIDS patients freely walk among us.

President Reagan, representing the US gubmint at the time, dropped the ball big time:

"President Ronald Reagan’s record is forever tarnished by his lack of leadership on HIV/AIDS; he infamously refused to address it until 1987. By that time, the CDC reported that more than 40,000 Americans had contracted the disease and more than 23,000 of them had died. When the president did speak about AIDS prevention, he recused the government and alarmingly mingled science with ethics: “The federal role must be to give educators accurate information about the disease. How that information is used must be up to schools and parents, not government. But let’s be honest with ourselves — AIDS information cannot be what some call ‘value neutral.’ After all, when it comes to preventing AIDS, don’t medicine and morality teach the same lessons?”

"To his credit, Obama is displaying none of Reagan’s head-in-the-sand syndrome. As soon as it became clear that a second Dallas nurse had been infected with Ebola, Obama canceled campaign swings and hosted a high-level meeting at the White House to discuss the outbreak. On Friday, the president went a step further, tapping Ron Klain as his Ebola czar."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ebola-a-growing-epidemic-of-fear-eerily-like-the-early-years-of-the-age-of-aids/2014/10/15/5781f1fe-5479-11e4-809b-8cc0a295c773_story.html

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Does The State Have The Right To Quarantine Someone Because They Might Have Ebola?

by minimus in

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friends

no doubt you have heard about the nurse that thumbed her nose to the state and went out of the house in spite of being ordered to stay at home.

what is your opinion on this?.

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BizzyBee

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If you love conspiracy theories...

by Gregor in

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we are in the middle of a beauty.. this ebola thing is sooo being manipulated by the obola administration.

elections coming up in less than 3 weeks.... .

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BizzyBee

Let me just take this opportunity to say,

BENGHAZI!

Thank you.

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Well it look like AG Eric Holder is finally stepping down.

by tootired2care in

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/09/25/351363171/eric-holder-to-step-down-as-attorney-general.

happy day - our incompetent race baiting ag who refuses to actually do his job, and prosecute high crimes right under his down in the irs is finally stepping down.

good riddance!.

BizzyBee

Re: Al Sharpton

Update (3:17 p.m.): Sharpton sent a statement to Business Insider clarifying that he is not involved in the "decision making."

"We did not say we are in the decision making. We are in conversation to reach out to them to have meetings about what we want to see in a successor," said Sharpton. "I have personally spoken to Attorney General Eric Holder today to express my views that he was the best civil rights Attorney General in history."

I would imagine the POTUS gets a few thousand letters per day advising him what he should do. Doesn't mean they're "advising" him.

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Well it look like AG Eric Holder is finally stepping down.

by tootired2care in

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/09/25/351363171/eric-holder-to-step-down-as-attorney-general.

happy day - our incompetent race baiting ag who refuses to actually do his job, and prosecute high crimes right under his down in the irs is finally stepping down.

good riddance!.

BizzyBee

If only we could go back to the days of those paragons of virtue, John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales!

I guess not - they both resigned in disgrace.