Featured Per Obama, "Flu kills thousands each year ..."

The man is an idiot. :BangHead:

 

It would be nice if a published author such as yourself knew what quotation marks meant. Most reasonable people would expect them to mean that the words inside the quotes are actually a direct quote from someone. You obviously have a different definition, because what you have in quotes, the President never said.

Now, let's look at what he actually said. Then, if people want, we can debate the facts and not some made up quote.

 

No he is not. He is being rational and calm and stating the situation as it is. We have three people with the disease, one already dead and the other two accounted for and stabilized. He is simply providing perspective to stem the media sensationalism that has quite frankly been disgusting.

 

Exactly.

He has no sense of proportion about how to do so properly, so he appears to be doing what he always does...talking down to the rest of us mere mortals.

 

His point still stands true. One person in the US has died of Ebola. Many more will die of flue this year. You chance of being no longer with us because of flu is much higher than from Ebola.

And, your point about the elderly and young and weakened condition is mute. Same folk would die in higher numbers if they had Ebola.

 

Where is the shot we can take to prevent contracting ebola?

 

Yes but what is happening in a third world country without proper infrastructure, medical professionals and basic education is a far cry from the conditions we enjoy in the U.S. As much as I hear about the CDC bungling this thing it sounds like the two cases have been contained and stabilized. No doubt hospitals should update their protocols and their should be some basic education provided to the public that is in a potential zone but we do have the technology to care for, treat, and transport carriers of ebola to get the best medical care.

 

This is how reasonable people with perspective think. Solid post.

 

Comparing West Africa w/the U.S. is absolutely not comparing 'apples w/apples'.

And Obama is absolutely correct with his attempt to stifle Ebola hysteria with his example of influenza:

"The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.[1] It infected 500 million[2] people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them—three to five percent of the world's population[3]—making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.[2][4][5][6]

Most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill juvenile, elderly, or already weakened patients; in contrast the 1918 pandemic predominantly killed previously healthy young adults....."

 

Lets see how fast it spreads when it hits the "Big Apple"

 

It's a valid argument, but I'll give you 2 or 3 reasons why it may not help.

1. We're used to the flu. We see it every year. You don't bleed out of your eye sockets and mouth with the flu. That type of illness scares a lot of people.

2. There is no shot we can take to prevent it and The mortality rate is astronomical compared to the flu.

3. Probably most important...The well has gone dry. Too many people don't trust the president. He has told too many lies about too many things. From a leadership standpoint, we are bankrupt. The smell of incompetence is all over this administration. At a time like this, about something as serious as ebola, he needs to be credible. He's not.

 

He didn't intimate anything or downplay anything. Y'all just playing politics again as Matt showed what he DID say.

The longer this man is in office, the more irrational some of you become. Like Don said the other day

Some of you would do well to stop worrying about what you THINK he's trying to say and deal with what he actually says.

It seems to be the same way some deal with Scripture. Instead of dealing with what the words say on the page, we start saying stuff that we think is intimated.

PREACH THE WORD.

And deal with what the President ACTUALLY says. He actually SAYS enough wrong, crazy stuff that no one should have to make up new stuff.