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Your Government: Welcoming Ebola and Enterovirus While Protecting You from Chocolate Easter Eggs

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Mark Steyn looks at the insane priorities of our progressive-run Federal Government, who will let infected people from Third World countries into the USA… no problem… but will seize bagpipes, chocolate Easter Eggs and nail clippers as a threat to society.

To function, institutions have to be able to prioritize – even big, bloated, money-no-object SWAT-teams-for-every-penpusher institutions like the US Government. You can’t crack down on Kinder eggs, bagpipes and Ebola: At a certain point, you have to choose. My line with the Homeland Security guys is a simple one: every 20 minutes you spend on me, or my kids’ chocolate eggs, or Cameron Webster’s bagpipe is 20 minutes you’re not spending on the guy with Ebola, or Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The price of bagpipe scrutiny is a big hole blown in the lives of American families attending the Boston Marathon, or a bunch of schoolkids in Dallas having to be quarantined for a vicious, ravaging disease with a high fatality rate.

They will use SWAT Teams to raid Amish dairy farmers for selling milk, while spreading children infected with Enterovirus all over the country.

Update and Bump:  George Will comments:

You asked “can we trust the government to do its job?” What isn’t its job these days? I’ve just made a list. It’s fine-tuning the curriculum of our students k-12, monitoring sex on campuses, deciding how much ethanol we should put in our gas tanks, it’s designed our lightbulbs, and it’s worried sick over the name of the Washington football team. Now this is a government that doesn’t know when to stop.”

Comments

  1. Between crises bureaucrats think up myriad things to regulate & disrupt, which have nothing to do with the original reason (the particular crisis) that an agency was created to originally solve. It’s from the top down in the WH cabinet that the lead is taken in these matters.

  2. If only our Republic was being run by the Ministry of Silly Walks. At-least there they had a clear laser-like focus on their appointed-duties. Instead we have Nigel and Sir Humphrey. No, that’s a slur against Nigel and Sir Humphrey…

    New bumper-sticker idea; Sir Humphrey for W.H. Chief of Staff !!

  3. The Ebola Man Was Sent Home Because of Bad Software according to the Dallas hospital statement concerning the initial release of Thomas Eric Duncan:

    Protocols were followed by both the physician and the nurses. However, we have identified a flaw in the way the physician and nursing portions of our electronic health records (EHR) interacted in this specific case.

    You remember EHR. It is the magic bullet in Obamacare that will streamline healthcare and make the brains run on time along the same track to identification, treatment and cure.

    OK. Mistakes were made. But only yesterday did the Haz-mat crews show up at the apartment where all the Ebola exposed friends and family were cooped up with his body fluid soaked detritus of Ebola man. In the days of yore they would have burned the place and the folks inside.

  4. The Raw milk thing is PC ultra as those that evolved in areas where drinking milk helped survive winters have the least problems with drinking milk.The queen of England drank it every day of her life but if a Nigerian prince took a sip it would cause him trouble. Something else east Asians can do better than other minorities. Leftists in CA would rather shoot people than admit evolution affects humans for something other than short distance run ability.

    Daniel Greenfield tore up the Heifer international as being a worse charity than Unicef which holds the record for poisoning the most children (luckily only 5% of its donations get spent on charity work)
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/a-liberal-and-someone-elses-money-are-swiftly-parted/

  7. Ebola scare in KC! Most likely nothing but we’ll honor our commitment to diversity unto death.

    The fact is that western culture has brought nothing but eeeevillll to the world… Miracle drugs, clean water, abolition of the slave trade, ability to produce enough food to feed the world, art, music, rule of law… None of that matters.

    Drudge reports that Marburg, a hemorrhagic fever not quite as virulent as Ebola has broken out in Uganda.

    http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2014-10/05/content_33686011.htm

  8. Steve – the fool judge in Dallas just goes to show how dangerous this situation is.

    If a proper quarantine were in place, the asshole would not have been allowed to enter.

    I’d wish for him to become ill with Ebola – with the hope that he’d see what a fool he is – but he’d likely then infect others.

    This jerk and his assistants should be arrested immediately and placed in quarantine. He has no right to endanger the public with his narcissistic posturing.

    We have reached a critical mass of stupidity in the world… A chain reaction is inevitable. Have a happy day.

  9. WH fool spokesgoat on Sunday Pundit TV announces 3800 US troops being sent to the Pesthole to “fight” Ebola at the source. That’s 3800 unwitting, involuntary plague-spreaders returning to their families — and their children. What a wonderful idea.

    Five-percent of Earth’s population DIED of the Spanish Flu within 2-years with only trains and steamships as a long-distance vector. And Ebola is 5-10 times as fatal — albeit less-communicable. It used to take 10-12 days to get from London to Los Angeles by the fastest-means-possible…now it can be done in 10-hrs. And Ebola can incubate for up to 21-days.

    No more shaking hands or hugs — or meals-out, or going to the movies.
    And time for gloves in-public to become fashionable again.

  10. For all the CDC’s assurances that there’s nothing to worry about, the response to the idea of an ebola outbreak here in the States has been rather lackadaisical.

    And can somebody explain to me why we are sending U.S. soldiers to West Africa when the supply of the ebola drug has run out? What are they supposed to do? Catch the disease and drop dead?

  12. What are they supposed to do? Catch the disease and drop dead?

    The horrifying and cynical answer is, “yes”.

    Preferably AFTER they brought the scourge home and inadvertently-infected their own children — and the children’s friends — as it spreads through the entire Jacksonian-American community.

  14. I partly agree with Ted B. Yes, the Administration wants soldiers and other military personnel to die. Cheaper, and removes the non-liberal voters from the electorate. (Look at how the military is being starved for funds, and there is another push to reduce, or at least increase by less than reasonable, pay and other compensation.)

    Not sure they want the families to go, though. They might be salvageable.