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highplainsdem

(49,060 posts)
Sat May 23, 2020, 07:40 PM May 2020

2014 Trump tweet slamming Obama for golfing during the Ebola outbreak







Two years before Trump announced that HE wouldn't have time to play golf if he were elected president.


Current Trump golf count on this website

https://trumpgolfcount.com/

is at 250 outings for an estimated cost to taxpayers of more than $130 million.
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2014 Trump tweet slamming Obama for golfing during the Ebola outbreak (Original Post) highplainsdem May 2020 OP
And remind me, please, how many people in the USA died of Ebola? fierywoman May 2020 #1
Only two people, out of nine who contracted the disease outside the US before coming here. highplainsdem May 2020 #3
There's a tweet for everything TheBlackAdder May 2020 #2
Let's go back and remember how a REAL president handled a pandemic Blue Owl May 2020 #4

highplainsdem

(49,060 posts)
3. Only two people, out of nine who contracted the disease outside the US before coming here.
Sat May 23, 2020, 08:41 PM
May 2020

Two other people contracted Ebola in the US, but they recovered, along with seven of the nine who'd caught it in another country.

Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_cases_in_the_United_States

Blue Owl

(50,535 posts)
4. Let's go back and remember how a REAL president handled a pandemic
Sat May 23, 2020, 11:02 PM
May 2020
https://www.facebook.com/david.furnish/posts/10221822441167061

When Ebola spread out of the Guinea borders into neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone in July 2014, President Obama activated the Emergency Operations Center at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The CDC immediately deployed CDC personnel to West Africa to coordinate a response that included vector tracing, testing, education, logistics, and communication.

Altogether, the CDC, under President Obama, trained 24,655 medical workers in West Africa, educating them on how to prevent and control the disease before a single case left Africa or reached the U.S.

Working with the U.N. and the World Health Organization President Obama ordered the re-routing of travelers heading to the U.S. through certain specific airports equipped to handle mass testing.

Back home in America, more than 6,500 people were trained through mock outbreaks and practice scenarios. That was done before a single case hit America.

Three months after President Obama activated this unprecedented response, on September 30, 2014, we detected our first case in the U.S.A. A man had traveled from West Africa to Dallas and somehow slipped through the testing protocol. He was immediately detected and isolated. He died a week later. Two nurses who tended to him contracted Ebola but later recovered. All the protocols had worked. It was contained.

The Ebola epidemic could have easily become a pandemic, but thanks to the actions of our government under President Obama, it never did. Those THREE EBOLA CONFIRMED CASES were the ONLY cases of Ebola in the U.S.A. because Obama did what needed to be done THREE MONTHS PRIOR TO THE FIRST CASE.
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