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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obama lied to you. He knew the risk was not extremely low:

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-administration-found-nearly-25-percent-chance-ebola-184611722.html[/quote]

Oh, please.

The study found there was a twenty-five percent chance that we would see a case here.  Despite this, the president said our overall Ebola vulnerability remains very low, which is true.  Importing a single case does not equal a U.S. epidemic, as evidenced by the fact that we have seen only two additional cases since Duncan and none outside the hospital setting.  The president was right.  We will contain it, just as Nigeria did.[/quote]

NP. [b]You're saying the vulnerability is acceptable, [/b]but I'm saying that it could--and should--be less. It could be less by refusing entry from the region, to prevent a second outbreak cluster, while fighting it at the source at the same time. I agree that we are [i]controlling[/i] this disease, likely monitoring it very closely, but we aren't preventing it very well are we? I did not like watching the ambulance take Pham to NIH.... I used to commute just that route for a couple of years. I certainly wish it Ebola had been contained prior to arriving inside the beltway.

My concern is that we won't end up closing the borders until after Ebola takes a toehold in someplace like India and a couple other underprepared nations. It is a shame. USA will likely do fine except for a few vulnerabilities, statistical matters you might say.[/quote]

Please indicate where I said it was "acceptable" for some to be infected.  
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