Democrats blame ebola on gop

Davey Jones

Davey Jones

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That statement just made my day ...... ROFLMAOYSST....

Well we knew Congress was good for something..right?

The Agenda Project is a progressive non-profit political organization founded in 2010 by author Erica Payne. This ad, featuring clips of Mitch McConnell, Pat Roberts, and many other Republicans implies that austerity cuts to the CDC and NIH are responsible for the 2014 Ebola outbreak. This ad with run in Kentucky and other states leading up to the election.
 

I don't think that is the case DAVEY.... BUT it sure would be nice if we had a Surgeon General... which we DON'T... Oh wait... The nomination is being blocked by the GOP... Also... the cuts to the CDC may impair the ability to develop a viable vaccine...
 
No Surgeon General or no figure head to front policy to the public-omg. Any company/organization I've ever worked for frequently ran better when the boss was absent because you could focus on the job and not a lot of the administrative issues and politics management puts on the employees. The CDC and others are still working on a vaccine, updating or modifying procedures for the people actually doing the work. Heck if one of these candidate docs wants to pursue an Ebola treatment I'm sure they could do some research on their own or with the funding from the private sector.

Over time yes they need a surgeon general because you don't want a non elected/appointed official making policy.
 

It's a wonder we have time to be responsible for the Ebola outbreak, after greasing gramma's wheels on her wheel chairs so she zips off the cliff faster. :yes:
 
Vivjen said:
I seem to have missed a bit; who is blaming whom for Ebola?
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Supposedly Democrats..... by pointing out that Republicans made deep cuts into the funding for the CDC.. Somehow I guess they think we believe that started the outbreak in West Africa.. and enticed Duncan to board the plane to Texas... Makes perfect sense...
 
Although I DID see this from the Director or the National Institute of Health...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/12/ebola-vaccine_n_5974148.html

BETHESDA, Md. -- As the federal government frantically works to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and as it responds to a second diagnosis of the disease at home, one of the country's top health officials says a vaccine likely would have already been discovered were it not for budget cuts.
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Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, said that a decade of stagnant spending has "slowed down" research on all items, including vaccinations for infectious diseases. As a result, he said, the international community has been left playing catch-up on a potentially avoidable humanitarian catastrophe.
"NIH has been working on Ebola vaccines since 2001. It's not like we suddenly woke up and thought, 'Oh my gosh, we should have something ready here,'" Collins told The Huffington Post on Friday. "Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would've gone through clinical trials and would have been ready."
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It's not just the production of a vaccine that has been hampered by money shortfalls. Collins also said that some therapeutics to fight Ebola "were on a slower track than would've been ideal, or that would have happened if we had been on a stable research support trajectory."
"We would have been a year or two ahead of where we are, which would have made all the difference," he said.
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So I suppose, while Republicans cannot be blamed for the actual outbreak in West Africa... If we had not had such austerity cuts to research there may have been an available vaccine by now, and perhaps the outbreak would not be as severe...
 

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