Re: Obama: ‘I Felt Perfectly Safe’ Hugging, Kissing Hospital Workers Who Took Care Of
LOL. Now to satisfy you he's got to hug and KISS a bunch of male doctors? You're kidding I hope.
Your statement here is an obvious meaningless ludicrous diversion. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Obama has simply not appeared kissing and hugging
anyone, male or female, who have had high-risk exposure to Ebola.
My point stands.
He has kissed and hugged a person who
recovered from the disease, effectively saying, "see, nothing to worry about, so there's no need to quarantine anyone during their incubation period".
That's hypocritical.
And obviously so.
Here's the end of the press conference - notice how he's shaking hands with all those standing behind him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYs-0L-ew_Q
Notice how none of the people behind him have been identified as people who have had high risk exposure and are in the middle of their 21-day quarantine.
Behind him, the commentary stated, Obama appeared with healthcare workers "fighting the virus".
Lab technicians, administrators, maybe even people about to be deployed in conjunction with U.S. military personnel (there was a person in uniform behind him), all can be categorized as people "fighting the virus".
But nowhere, nowhere, does it specify that the people with whom he shook hands were people who had returned and were in the midst of their 21 (which should be 42-day!) quarantine.
Those behind him are simply a backdrop.
His speech itself, was all about bashing strawmen.
There was nothing relevantly real about his presentation or his speech.
The person who introduced Obama was Dr. Kent Brantly, one of the people who was infected with Ebola and flown here and cured. He's the safest person in the world for the President to "hug", which, of course, is meaningless.
This is a dog-and-pony show, nothing more.
It's meaningless.
If you have evidence of that, feel free to cite it. Otherwise I'll take the news reports, and there are many, that at least some of those with him were inside the 21 day period.
Reading for comprehension, it is clear that it says that "he met with them".
It doesn't say how close he got to them.
There were women in the group.
It doesn't say he hugged and kissed them as he hypocritically did with the woman who had recovered from the virus, who had been cured.
It doesn't say those were the people behind him in the video.
Nowhere does it say the people standing behind him in the video were in their 21-day quarantine.
Those standing behind him were simply standing there, likely people working here in the states in labs, or those getting ready to go for the first time, via the military effort.
My point stands as accurate.
It seems like he was sending a direct, 'don't panic' message by meeting with people personally who weren't in quarantine, but were inside the 21 day window. It would seem to reassure, rather than panic, people.
Not in the least.
He was criticizing in general anyone who .. and then there were several strawman references.
Criticism does not ease panic.
Considering that when
all the information is considered regarding Ebola, his meeting with people who are
not yet symptomatic (and I'm
sure they were all thoroughly examined before the Secret Service and the CDC let them into the meeting room) only underscores that the danger isn't while their non-symptomatic.
Again, he didn't hug or kiss any of them.
Again, his dog-and-pony show does
not address the intelligent real concerns of people being out and about during their 24 hours prior to experiencing definite symptoms.
Again, nothing here indicated he hugged or kissed anyone.
Again, nothing here presents
for a fact that the people standing behind him, with whom he shook hands, were indeed people who were in the midst of their 21-day incubation period.
Again, the people behind him were just referenced as "heathcare workers in the fight against Ebola", words to that effect. If they had been those returning from West Africa in the midst of their 21-day incubation period
the press report, the news media, and even the President himself would most certainly have specifically said so. But, they simply weren't.
This is a very dishonest presentation by the President. He's clearly wanting people to imagine he's shaking hands with such 21-day incubation people .. when he simply was not.
That's dishonest.
People see through the veil, and that causes them to be suspicious, and that increases their fear, and if their fear is increased enough, that can lead to panic.
The President would do well simply to drop the "don't panic" line theatrics, laced with false allusions, and simply say how important it is that we not spook Wall Street.
People would get that.
They'd still be concerned about Ebola until the flight restrictions and quarantines are enforced, however, and understandably so.
Indeed, though, if it does come out he was having close physical contact with high-risk people during their 21/42-day incubation period, that kind of terrible judgement would indeed cause people to panic that our leader isn't very smart.
Still, if he's going to make a non-hypocritical statement that we "shouldn't be afraid of people during their 21/42-day incubation period", his next flight should be to Maine, where he hugs and kisses Nurse Hickox, who is known by
everyone to have had high-risk exposure to Ebola.
Then that would remove all doubt about Obama .. either way.
