Some questions from Allen Korwin

[tombogan03884]

The Uninvited Ombudsman List:

1- Ebola questions reporters need to ask:


Stop me when I get to a question that makes no sense or you've heard the media ask already:

Why didn't president Obama seek out a broad coalition of troops before sending our soldiers to fight the Ebola virus?

What was Obama's basis for seeking to fight it unilaterally, deploying troops without Congressional approval?

Why exactly did he need an extra 1,000 troops to fight the virus, so soon after the first deployment?

Are Russia or Communist China sending in troops to fight the virus?

Why do you send military troops to fight a virus?

When do our troops come home? Is there a rotation schedule?

Do they have to be quarantined for 21 days when they do come home?

What's the plan for troops who come back and have Ebola?

Has the Veterans Administration been prepared for handling Ebola cases?

Is your confidence in their ability to do so as high as your confidence in the CDC?


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What's the CDC procedure for cleaning vomit off a street where an Ebola patient has vomited?

Is it true a guy in shorts and a t-shirt hosed Ebola vomit into a Dallas sewer?

How long can Ebola virus survive in a Dallas sewer? (wrong question)

Does anyone know how long Ebola virus can survive in a Dallas sewer? (that's rhetorical: the answer is no; Can things living in the sewer transmit the virus?)

If the CDC is so well prepared why did they leave that patient's Ebola-tainted stuff sit for days in his apartment with his family members? Please don't duck this question.

Would it be fair to say that the CDC isn't as prepared as many spokespeople say they are?

Are all American cities as prepared as people say the CDC over in Atlanta, Georgia is?


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The Dallas mayor said on national TV all the people in the apartment complex were communicated with, yet the people there said on national TV no one told them anything, why didn't you question him about that?

Anderson Cooper on CNN said the apartment residents spoke many different languages, who translated for the mayor? Why didn't you ask him?

Why did so many people there sit outside mere feet away, with their kids, as we saw on TV, while the room was hosed out with the doors open and fumes sprayed out? Is this standard CDC procedure? Can we have a copy of those procedures?

The Dallas mayor said the tainted goods were treated with bleach, is bleach effective on the virus?

What treatments are available for Ebola patients, and why haven't you reported on that yet?

What's the actual medical test for Ebola virus?

How long does the test take, and who can conduct the test?

How do you dispose of all the gear that comes in contact with Ebola?

Why can't you get Ebola from someone who is pre-symptomatic?

Does that imply a blood transfusion from, or sex with, a pre-symptomatic person would be fine? Why not?

How many cities have a company that can properly quarantine an apartment complex?

Who issues the permits for that?

How did Dallas find the clean-up company it decided to use? Is there another one in town?

Who would you use in Phoenix (or pick a city)?


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Is measuring a person's temperature with an infrared thermometer, as we see airport staff in Liberia doing on TV, a positive test for Ebola?

If a person has no temperature but carries the virus, is it safe for them to board a flight to the U.S.?

If a person has no temperature does that mean it's safe to have sex with them?

How many people per hundred thousand have a non-Ebola fever (or diarrhea or vomiting) on an average day?

If a person has a fever (or diarrhea or vomiting) is that grounds for isolating them for 21 days? Is that legal?

How did the cameraman for NBC get the disease? Why hasn't this question been answered already? What treatment can he get in the U.S. that he can't get somewhere else?

Tell us about the U.S. patent on the Ebola virus. Why hasn't that been covered already?

How exactly does Ebola kill a person?

How long does it typically take from onset of Ebola symptoms for death to occur?

How long can the virus live in airborne droplets of bodily fluid, like from a sneeze?

Does the Ebola virus die instantaneously in air, or in a nanosecond, microsecond, seconds, and how do you know that?

Why isn't there any supply of the experimental drug ZMapp? Has ZMapp been proven effective?

Tell us about other drugs they're testing and how much supply there is.

How are you authorizing human testing of new drugs without clinical safety trials. Is this legal?

What's happening in Brussels, Belgium, where the first patient landed and changed planes?

Where is the ambulance the patient was transported in, how is that being disinfected?

I could keep asking questions like this but I suspect your patience is wearing thin.

Do you get the idea that reporters aren't asking relevant questions? Why is that? Didn't they go to journalism school? What do they teach them in there? Am I being to cynical for you?

Have a nice day. Namaste.

Alan Korwin
The Uninvited Ombudsman

[Solus]

Some of the Ebola questions are easy.

With a viscous virus that is spreading it's deadly effects so rapidly and complete, the only way to stop it is with boots on the ground and getting it at it's source.

Everyone knows that. 

Anyone who thinks air strikes will be effective in stopping or even slowing down a threat like this is either lying about wanting to stop it or completely ignorant about how these threats progress.

[tombogan03884]

Well Solus, all the other out breaks have been stopped by keeping people out of the effected area and letting it burn itself out.
Those who don't learn history are condemned to repeat it.
Those of us who DO study history are condemned to watch the dumb asses do it and tell the survivors, "We tried to tell you so".

[Solus]

actually, I wasn't commenting on the Ebola situation...

The statements I made were directed as a parody to the BO's response to ISIS

[crusader rabbit]

It has been somewhat apparent to many on this board that our dear leader is and has been dedicated to the end of America as the world's super power.  In action after action, a one-eyed man with macular degeneration could clearly see the outcome would not be of benefit to this country.

Odamna said going in that he wanted to fundamentally change this country.  And he is changing it. 

We are to be reduced to just another place on the globe.  Our concept of manifest destiny is just an egoists song. Our system of justice is and has been racist.  Our Reagan/Bush era employment of nearly 100% of the people who want to work has been laid to waste.  Income inequities will not be addressed by providing paths of upward mobility, but rather by redistributing the income earned by those not satisfied to work for minimum wage.

And if a plague like Ebola can hasten our trip to our collective knees, fighting it will be made impossible.  We won't close the borders, we won't check people from West Africa, we won't properly quarantine people exhibiting symptoms.  And that is exactly what is happening.

In short, we're hosed.

If we assume 100 is the average IQ (and the IQ test was designed so that 100 is average) then basic math tells us a full 1 out of 2 Americans fall on or below that mark and 1 out of 2 fall at or above that mark.  Plotting it on a Bell curve, we have equal numbers on both sides of the 100-mark at each level.  Smart side equals and balances out the dim side, with a few caveats. 

All that is then needed is for a few of the "smart" people to feel guilty about not having enough black friends, or actually buy into the socialist paradise philosophy, or to be simply anti-American and you get a criminal elected to the top job.  Twice.

The dim side will almost always vote for the idiot who promises something for nothing.  So it has always been.

Ebola is simply another fortuitous arrow in the quiver that will hasten our demise.

Crusader Rabbit

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[tombogan03884]

Three boxes, 2 have been proven failures, that only leaves #3.
If we tolerate it, we don't deserve any better.

[Solus]

Four boxes, but we are still left with the last one....

[tombogan03884]

4 ?

Soap box, Ballot box, and Ammo box. I count 3.

[Solus]

4 ?

Soap box, Ballot box, and Ammo box. I count 3.

Jury Box

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_boxes_of_liberty

[tombogan03884]

OK, Now I see, but it's still a vote.
Actually, the most important vote you get is on a Grand Jury, you can vote that even though the subject is guilty you will not enforce the law. A right only the citizens have regardless of what Obama thinks.