Don's Tuesday Column

THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   10/14/2014

PC disease approach still deadly

Tonight’s Tea Party Patriots meeting will include discussion and information-sharing on the November ballot propositions, Westside Grange, 6 PM.

Events, whether widely reported or not, have cast some doubt on whether the assurances by health officials, such as the CDC’s Dr. Frieden, can be taken at face value, or whether the entire narrative put forth by the media and politicians can withstand close scrutiny.

I strongly suggest visiting the Drudge Report, drudgereport.com, several times a day. It’s certainly going to provide more straight news reporting than you will find on the national broadcast networks or even in the pre-packaged segments aired locally. Liberals and partisan Democrats have a cynical attitude, lambasting Drudge for manipulative misrepresentation but that criticism falls apart upon finding that Matt Drudge performs little original reporting. Rather, he provides links to reported news as soon as it is available, often before politically motivated editorial decisions are made to scrub non-PC facts. At the very least you will be informed by all available information, not just the approved, sanitized, and limited-by-time network presentations. Even cable or satellite channels may be regurgitating acceptable, repetitive storylines.

See if you’re familiar with the Drudge Report headlines from last Friday: Obama Contradicts CDC on Avoiding Virus, US Personnel Will Have Direct Contact With Patients, Outbreak Reveals Flaws in Protective Gear, Ominous math of epidemic worries experts…Cases doubling every 3-4 weeks, False alarms mount as panic grows, CDC Ignoring Half of Potential Cases, and Conspiracy Theorists sent into Overdrive.

I bet you’ll be surprised to read that “Obama Nixed Bush-Era Quarantine Proposal,” as a recent piece at Powerlineblog.com by Paul Mirengoff, explained. That headline reflects the fact that “In 2010, the Obama Administration withdrew updated quarantine regulations drafted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and proposed by the Bush administration. The new rules would have required air passengers to submit more information to airlines and strengthened the government’s authority to detain travelers suspected of carrying disease.”

That sounds like it was the nonpartisan CDC using the best medical disease science to serve its core function of protecting Americans. Hence, President Bush took the side of science while, by withdrawing those science-based regulations, President Obama took another side. Did Obama actually elevate ideology and special interest pleading over science? Opponents included the “civil liberties” lobby (a blatantly ideological group) and the travel industry (by definition, a special interest, “big business” lobby).

Are our news reporters and sources fearless bulldogs, relentlessly pursuing truth no matter the resulting exposures? Or lapdogs, fearful of crossing the Obama-crat powers-that-be? Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson (sharylattkisson.com), formerly of CBS News until they tired of being the source of unflattering exposes of Obama Justice Department scandals, is still on the job and filed reports on October 4^th and 11^th on the polio-like illness that has claimed at least 6 child victims. According to the CDC, Enterovirus D-68 (EV-D68) has sickened at least 691 people as of October 10 in 46 states. “The outbreak is likely more widespread than reported since some states are not lab testing all respiratory illnesses to confirm.”

Attkisson has raised a question that occurred to me when it was first reported in August: “Is there a link to illegal immigrant children?” Absent facts supporting such speculation, it might be irresponsible to raise such a question. However, the CDC hasn’t identified any reasons for the current uptick in a disease present in small amounts for 50 years in America. Moreover, literally tens of thousands of Central American children have been placed throughout the U.S., in locations kept secret for the most part, but reportedly in significant numbers in the two cities where EV-D68 was first reported: Kansas City, MO, and Chicago. According to “Virology Journal,” a study “found EV-D68 among some of the 3,375 young, ill people tested in eight Latin American countries…in 2013.” Is politically correct disease reporting denying parents vital info?

Coincidentally, the biological warfare plot from Tom Clancy’s “Executive Orders” I mentioned last week did involve a nurse in Africa that contracted Ebola from a patient. The Iranian doctor working with her notified his superiors in Iran and they surreptitiously arranged for her to: 1) be diverted from transport to a European medical center, 2) in a jet they made to “disappear” from radar to land in Iran, 3) so that they could cruelly keep her alive to gather the maximum amount of Ebola and 4) cultivate the virus with monkey kidneys 5) from which they manufactured an airborne particulate Ebola in pressurized gas.

The Iranian Ebola WMD attack, intended to decimate America’s population with millions of deaths, failed to produce that spectacular result because: 1) the nurse did not become infected from an airborne virus but from a break in her rubber glove, and 2) American medical scientists eventually created a cure from the DNA of people who displayed a natural resistance to Ebola.

Finally, look up, at Foreignpolicy.com, “Found: The Islamic State’s Terror Laptop of Doom” (August 28). The subhead reads: “Buried in a Dell computer captured in Syria are lessons for making bubonic plague bombs and missives on using weapons of mass destruction.”