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Obama Administration Seeks $58M To Put (Partly) Toward Fighting Ebola
The Associated Press reports (here, as carried by the Washington Times) that The White House is asking Congress for $58 million above current levels to speed the production of promising drugs to fight Ebola and additional flexibility for the Department of Homeland Security to cope with the thousands of unaccompanied Central American children still arriving at the southern border. ... [T]he $58 million request for the Centers for Disease Control would help the agency ramp up production and testing of the experimental drug called ZMapp, which has shown promise in fighting the Ebola epidemic in western Africa. It would also help keep the development and manufacturing of two Ebola vaccines on track. The White House request also seeks to use $10 million in unused balances at the Department of Health and Human Services to help with the Ebola outbreak in Africa. The scarcity of ZMapp, the most promising treatment known for Ebola, is such that the third U.S. doctor to have been returned after being infected by the disease will be treated without it.
With Ebola in the news, its the popular thing to do.
That he is not getting what works because he can't pay for it. What chance do 3rd worlders have? Zero. Or 10% if they are lucky.
Bring out your dead!
Why are we bringing people infected with a virulent disease that has no real cure back to this country? Send doctors in a cargo plane with the needed equipment and to the patients there. Then quarantine the personnel and the patients for a minimum time before releasing to be sure it hasn't spread.
Moving infected people around is a mistake.
The best way to fight Ebola is to isolate it. All travel in and out of Africa needs to be monitored. And anyone, anyone, entering into the United States who has been to Africa or has no proven point of origin needs to be screened. No exceptions.
Vacationing from Africa? Traveled there recently? Get screened at customs. Illegally crossing the border? Either get deported or get screened. Legally immigrating? Get screened.
"To Put (Partly) Toward Fighting Ebola...". The majority of it will go to buy votes.
Why spend more when we could simply allocate more effectively? Why isn't that ever the answer?
ZMapp is produced by a private firm. By effectively socializing its production, Obama can say "they didn't build that".
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I think the money for Ebola is a boondoggle, but heck, not as bad as most of those things.
But continued financing of the Export Import Bank is an outrage. Obama himself said it should be shut down when he was a candidate.
When you compare against all the other assinine things that $58 M have been spent on (to the tune of being merely a drop of the bucket in larger spending bills) within pork programs, we should be jumping to take advantage of helping in this situation. The level of waste in this kind of spending is close to zero.
Okay, lets go ahead and spend money for research on this horrible disease, this is a very noble effort.
BUT not one dime from this emergency expenditure should be spent on the Obama regime's human trafficking scam, Congress has already wisely chosen NOT to fund this criminal activity. Read the article, the CDC is only asking for $30 million, but the Obama regime is demanding $58 million so they can use this medical "must pass" emergency measure to divert half of these funds to one of Obama's questionable pet projects. The money should be more properly be spent on keeping the illegals OUT!
Will immediately be funneled to muslim terror groups, African warlords and strongmen. Is anyone so naive to think that something else will happen to the money?
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You people are horrible.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Why not use that? Tried, tested, and true..
The first black muslim traitor suspected homosexual president.
It's no wonder that America's haters immediately awarded him a Nobel prize.
The administration wants $58M more money (new debt) to fight Ebola AND pay for kids at the border... How much of the $58M is for Ebola and how much is for the kids crossing the border? Oh, and in addition, they want to reallocate another $10M in unspent money at HHSto fight Ebola.
Too bad they used up a dose on the foolish doctor that gave no credit to the doctors and scientists that formulated the treatment, instead giving all credit to the invisible man in the sky who happily lets thousands die of this disease.
ZMapp is not a mass-produced medication. It is an experimental treatment. Calling it "scarce" gives entirely the wrong impression -- it is amazing that it is available for clinical use at all.
It's certainly worth it to produce ZMapp in significant quantities -- people would rather take an untested drug than try to survive Ebola -- but there is no "scarcity" here. Perhaps if many people wish to try it we'll have a better idea if it actually works.
If 58 million dollars our taxes are going to a company that makes the vaccine, then do we own the patent? I'm tired of crony capitalism/corporate welfare for billionaires.
I'm not convinced that this ebola plague isn't being helped along on purpose by various elitist parties looking to exterminate their least favorite groups.
And, of course they would.
-The same psychopaths have been running the black world since forever. A plague? What a great way to decimate the population without being blamed of wrong doing. Also, the prospect of making a huge profit on the pending cure is a nice bonus. It's Win Win all the way around to the psychopathic mind!
"Disaster Capitalism" -Not just for earthquakes anymore!
However, because they are completely, utterly insane and thus incapable of real forward planning, these catastrophically mad bastards are basing their hopes of surviving the biological embers they're blowing into flame with some as yet undeveloped 'cure'. -And on the fact that they're insane; the psychopath really doesn't believe s/he is in any real danger of the universe not forever spinning around them. They cannot do anything about their condition other than to play it out. It's up to real humans to do something, and.., sadly, that doesn't appear likely.
The solution?
Well, there isn't one. People are too far gone. I'll probably get another negative mod for failing to get in line here, but should you perhaps not happen to have lost your brain to the media and the lemming rot, you might wish to look into what you can do to make the plague a survivable event in your life.
-Because you're going to be facing it soon enough. Ebola is just the beginning; history shows that when empires fall, a lot of other things, (space rocks, environmental shake ups, and plague) come along in unison. -The Black Plague was a stubborn problem which just kept on coming back during the dark ages, and we're entering the New Dark Ages right now. That's not hype.
So.., what do you do? Well, skip the gas masks and bug out tents and survival gear. Toys aren't going to save you. Community might, however.
So look instead into ketogenics, Vitamin C and cold therapies.
Absurdly enough, during the dark ages, old people who ate the disgusting bone broth left over after the good meat was gone, tended to have higher survival rates than the tough young folk. Healthy fat tissues make your cells harder to attack. And that means animal fats in the diet. And lots of all the nutrients life needs to be strong.
Good luck.
How did you get modded down for this? The corruption in Africa is world famous with many relief organizations complaining about how much charity funding the local governments and warlords divert to their own purposes in maintaining power.
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.
a fraction of a fighter jet for that!
Never let a lack of data get in the way of a good rant.
@"Despite what people think Ebola is not very contagious in the western world where personal hygiene is actually practised"
You are so ignorant its astounding. I guess you're never been on any public transport then in your entire life. Let alone any major public transport network in any major city during any regular working week rush hour!. Try to imagine all the mutual points of contact (e.g. points to hold on to) on packed public transport?
By the way, Ebola is known to be spread in mucus & saliva, so imagine people sneezing into their hand then holding onto the surfaces like public transport hand holds while they struggle to work with what they thing is the start of the flu. Then other people touch these points, then their pockets and money and phones etc.. and then get to work and clean their hands, then they pickup their phone out of their pocket at lunch time and text a friend whilst having a sandwich.
Oh yes, our western personal hygiene won't allow it to spread. What total absolute bullshit. Do you think the workers who have worked with Ebola for decades dress up in level 4 protective clothing for fun, because they have a clothes fetish!. My point is it spreads in subtle ways. Personal hygiene didn't save over 240 trained medical staff who know about personal hygiene (of which over 120 are already dead).
Imagine the potential for it to spread on surfaces. Public transport, freight boxes, money you get handed to you in a shop, its endless the points of personal contact.
So seriously, stop this insanely ignorant idea that personal hygiene will stop it spreading!.
If you're still not convinced, then try reading the following sections here:
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php
Look at sections headed by SURVIVAL OUTSIDE HOST and the whole of SECTION VII - EXPOSURE CONTROLS / PERSONAL PROTECTION.
Obama will call for a complete dismantling of all laws regarding border control. There's no better to destroy us all than right now.
I mean, is there a good place to PUT IT so that something good can be made to happen? (Instead of pure waste?)
I've regularly seen situations where throwing more money than a certain amount at something simply doesn't help. You can only ramp up programs so fast, bring equipment into operation so fast, get people in, trained, and working productively so fast.
It's quite possible that President Obama asked the people doing the work, "how much money can you absorb right now to accelerate things?" and got told "maybe $30M...?" So he got them $58M.
Adding any more money to their efforts would just be waste. I know that my organization could absorb maybe $20M in "surprise" funding productively in a single year, any more than that and we'd just sit on the money or send it back. (I would hope we wouldn't waste it.)
If we KNEW we were going to get a year-on-year increase, and were given carte blanche to hire people and support so we could write contracts as much as we wanted, we could ramp up over a year or two to use $200M or more productively, but in a single year? No way.
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--PeterM
Are you so helpless that you can't do anything on your own? You need your government to do it for you? If you want to help, send a check to the company working on the medications.
I learned from a blog entitled Vaccines and Therapies Targeting Ebola Virus May Meet Breakthroughs that the United States National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration are collaborating to speed up the clinical trials of vaccines. They announced that, in this September, an Ebola vaccine would be ready for clinical trials. Does anybody know the latest news about this vaccine?
has ran this entire psy-op, and your niggerface fell for it again, hook line and sinker
Maxine Waters.