Dave has already touched on it, but I just couldn’t resist. pResident Obama appoints a lawyer to head ebola response. Not a doctor or a nurse, not a public health specialist or a disease researcher. A lawyer. Normally when you want to solve a problem you bring on some one who has relevant training and experience. What is the relevance of a lawyer to a disease outbreak?
Now what does this tell me? Assuming it is a rational decision and not the product of a diseased mind: Obama does not want to solve or manage the problem. He wants it to get worse (on the ground) while providing spin coverage in Washington.
And just to get the conspiracists hopping I’ll throw in a link to Agenda 21/America 2050 – depopulation. Is any of that rational? Reasonable? Possible? Well appointing a lawyer to solve a disease problem kinda makes me wonder.
And then sending troops to areas with high infection rates makes me wonder. The purpose is what? Getting the troops infected? Because I have never seen in the military literature anything about deploying divisions against a virus.
I will add that I just got a State ID the other day and was informed that because I’m of a certain age it doesn’t expire until I do. I do not think government has my best interest at heart.
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What is the relevance of a lawyer to a disease outbreak?
Spin doctor.
It’s exactly the same reason that President Ebola’s first response to learning of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak was not to deploy the Coast Guard, or put government resources at the disposal of the locals to assist with cleanup, but to send lawyers.
Zendo Deb has something in mind, a revolutionary thought.
http://wheelgun.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/remember-remember-the-5th-of-november/
I think they may change the name of the disease soon.
As a lawyer, Ron Klain has been given the task of suing Ebola. If that doesn’t work the present administration will try other tactics such as teaching Ebola not to infect. As a last resort, we will fight this disease with hashtags: #BringBackOurBloodCells