Just Plain Stupid: Obama Sending Troops to Ebola-Ravaged Africa

By Frosty Wooldridge

Continuing to allow airplane flights into America loaded with people streaming out of Ebola-ravaged Africa must be the dumbest act that Congress, the Center for Disease Control and Barack Obama could possibly perpetrate on the American people. 

To send 3,000 of our young men and women over to Ebola-ravaged Africa with some kind of insane idea that we could stop the epidemic, must be the second dumbest idea of Barack Obama and his band of incompetent advisors.  Anyone with a room-temperature IQ and an ounce of common sense would take logical action in the face of such a virulent virus.

As a superintendent of a school system, you wouldn’t invite sick students with chicken pox, small pox, mumps, measles and polio into your school.  You would mandate they stay home to protect the students and teachers in your school.  Why? Infectious diseases guaranteed to jump from student to student!

If I stood at the helm in the White House: I would immediately stop all flights into the United States from Africa.  I would not subject one single American to Ebola unnecessarily.

The president’s authorizing a call-up of the reserves or the National Guard to fight a virulent disease like Ebola in Africa with no idea of the outcome—must rank up there with the movie, “Dumb and Dumber.” Instead of saving Africa from itself, those 3,000 troops may well become disease vectors themselves that bring Ebola back to America in greater numbers, or, simply kill a bunch of our country’s finest soldiers.

“Africa’s biggest problem is not drought, disease, or dictators,” Dr. Don Boys.  “But drinking and defecation are the biggest problem! This is true of India, Asia, and areas of South America. Eighty per- cent of diseases in developing countries are caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation.  Africa, India, and some areas in South America are open cesspools where children play, parents wash clothes and get drinking water, workers irrigate crops, etc. In those areas, fresh water is unknown and open defecation (OD) is common.”

Very few Americans comprehend the gutter-level hygiene that encourages diseases like Ebola, cholera, dysentery, tuberculosis and other bugs that proliferate in third world countries.  Africa suffers incredibly contaminated water, food and soil.

“Now for the first time in human history most people live in cities, often in the slums,” said Boys.  “More than 70 percent of Africa’s urban population lives in slums! Around one-third of the urban population in developing countries, nearly one billion people, live in slums. There is one toilet for every 500 people in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.  However, the biggest problem is in rural areas where the problem can be more quickly solved but not without difficulty. Nearly 540 million people, more than 60 percent of Africa’s population, currently practice open defecation according to the African Development Bank Group.”

Americans stand no chance of changing African culture to leap into the 21^st century standards of sanitation.  You might as well ask a mosquito to fly to the moon.

The same stands true for countries like India where 1,000 children die 24/7 of diarrhea and dysentery.  Utter misery faces citizens of Pakistan, Nepal and Mexico every day of the year.

 The World Health Organization Public Health Director lamented, “What is shocking…is this picture of someone practicing open defecation and in the other hand having a mobile phone.”

I remember hiking in Asia when I saw water buffalo defecating along the trail. Women immediately grabbed the pile of dung in their hands to take it off to a drying rack for fuel.  When you see it firsthand, you gag, but then, you get used to it.  It’s sickening, but that’s how they operate in the third world.  Several billions of people around this planet don’t use a toilet, but do use the land as their latrine.

Is it any wonder that diseases like TB kill 2,000,000 (million) people annually?  That Chagas infects 14 million in South America?   That AIDES killed 25 million in 30 years in Africa? 

So, does it make sense to you that Obama, Congress and the CDC expect to import more and more Ebola patients back into the USA?  Are you excited that your kids or you could very well become the next victims?  Are you going to stand by to wait for it to happen in your community?

For this obviously incompetent man sitting in the White House to send our soldiers over to a hot zone of Ebola infections must rate with a madman thinking he can walk into an AIDS ward to have sex with all the victims and walk out untouched with the disease. 

But in this case, Obama sends our kids over to Ebola hot zones in Africa, not his kids. 

Right now, two innocent nurses in Texas face death because of the importation of Mr. Duncan from Liberia who later died.  Who allows this kind of insanity?

If nurses can’t fend off the disease in a hospital while wearing haz-mat suits, how in the name of common sense and rational thought will 3,000 soldiers fend off Ebola with M-16’s?  Somebody in high places shows criminal stupidity on a scale heretofore unimaginable.

You can see on the CDC website we find this unsettling phrase:

“No FDA-approved vaccine or medicine (e.g., antiviral drug) is available for Ebola.”

As with the Iraq War, few Americans protested the stupidity of invading that country under the lie of “Weapons of Mass Destruction.”  As with 9/11, our presidents and Congress failed to stop illegal immigration. 

Call your Congressman/woman; governor; senator; newspaper, radio and TV station to scream that you want all flights cancelled coming in from Africa.  Scream that you don’t want 3,000 of our kids to go over to Africa to be infected by Ebola. 

To sit silent and let the incompetent in the White House and incompetents in Congress invite America’s Ebola epidemic—makes no sense whatsoever.

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