{"id":8153,"date":"2014-10-09T18:22:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T18:22:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-10-09T18:22:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T18:22:52","slug":"who_is_dr_thomas_frieden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/10\/09\/who_is_dr_thomas_frieden\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Dr. Thomas Frieden?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Even as I speak, there is a discussion on CNN right now that the US Ebola<\/a> patient didn\u2019t have to die. Apparently they\u2019re discussing a column written by somebody (I don\u2019t know who; they haven\u2019t named him that I\u2019ve seen) who claims that we let Thomas Duncan die because he\u2019s black (i.e., we\u2019re racist) and because he was poor and because he was from Africa and because we didn\u2019t care. Never mind the fact…<\/p>\n

You know, something that\u2019s not getting mention in all this? There is also a story about the NBC cameraman being treated for Ebola in Kansas. For all this talk about — and it\u2019s out there. I\u2019m sure that if you watch CNN, you\u2019ve heard it. This is not the first time they have brought up the subject here. I don\u2019t think people are stopping to take the time to reflect on the doctors and nurses that are coming in close contact with these patients to treat them. <\/p>\n

Given all the news that\u2019s out there about this disease, the death rate anywhere 50 to 90%, something like 7,500 cases worldwide, 3,500 deaths. So the death rate appears to be in the black of 50%, and yet an Ebola patient shows up — or even a suspected Ebola patient shows up — and the people in the hospital do not run away. They hang in there, and they won\u2019t be their best to protect themselves and they treat these people. <\/p>\n

For all this talk about all the racism and bigotry, and how this guy didn\u2019t get treated soon enough and the hospital sent him away, when he ended up coming back, he was attended to by people that come in close proximity. They\u2019re trained medical professionals, I understand that, but those people, in Africa, have died. Doctors in Africa have died treating patients. <\/line><\/p>\n

People who thought they were taking precautions — people that had been fully deck the out in full hazmat gear — have died. I think there\u2019s a lot being taken for granted here, particularly in the news media report throwing around here that there\u2019s racism to explain why this Ebola patient died. It\u2019s not as though he walked into the hospital and everybody left and said, “You\u2019re on your own, Buddy!” <\/p>\n

He was treated, eventually, and the NBC cameraman\u2019s being treated in Nebraska, and there are people within close proximity. There are people taking risks knowing what we know to treat the sick, and I think it\u2019s outrageous to hear pepole bandying about this typical left-wing drivel and bilge that this country is filled with racists and bigots who don\u2019t care if certain people get sick and die. <\/p>\n

Some columnist in the Dallas Morning News<\/a> says Thomas Duncan did not have to die. Claims be wasn\u2019t turned away, he would have been treated soon enough and would have lived, which is pure speculation! Nobody knows. I mean, we didn\u2019t have any serum to give the guy. We\u2019d given it all away to Africa. He got an experimental drug. He was treated twice by that Dallas hospital. <\/p>\n

The first time, he got the wrong treatment, but he was treated. I mean, Thomas Duncan died because he didn\u2019t tell the doctors the truth from front to back, nor did his family. But just, folks, the next time that you hear this being bandied about by your typical left-wing media type who just can\u2019t wait to rip into this country, just remember the next picture you see of medical personnel treating Ebola patients, up close and personal. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s how you just put to rest this baseless charge. <\/p>\n

Now, the French News Agency<\/a> is reporting: “The deadly spread of Ebola in West Africa is something unseen since the outbreak of AIDS, Thomas Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday. ‘I would say that in the 30 years I\u2019ve been working in public health, the only thing like this has been AIDS,\u2019 he told a top-level Ebola forum in Washington.<\/line><\/p>\n

“‘It\u2019s going to be a long fight,\u2019 he told [the usual suspects from] the United Nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund gathered in Washington. ‘We have to work now so that it is not the world\u2019s next AIDS.'” I don\u2019t know. This could be bigger than that, if — and that\u2019s the thing. You don\u2019t know what to believe, because there\u2019s seemingly so many contradictory things being said about how you contract it.<\/p>\n

“You\u2019re not gonna contract it. It\u2019s hard to get.”<\/p>\n

“No, it\u2019s not! It\u2019s easy to get!” <\/p>\n

But what in the world…? Of all people dying, why is the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and a bunch of doofuses at the United Nations there? What in the world do they have to do with stopping the spread of this? What\u2019s the World Bank do that I don\u2019t know? What\u2019s the IMF do that I don\u2019t know? These are money people. I know, I know. Follow the money; you get to the answer to everything. <\/p>\n

“Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell said that despite the best efforts of health officials, Americans have to prepare for the reality that there may be more cases of Ebola in the United States.” Wait! No! No! We were told that we handle on it. no. Didn\u2019t the president say that? Didn\u2019t he say that Ebola was not gonna get here, and that there was no reason to worry about this? <\/p>\n

When we flew those first those chair those missionary workers back and thereby brought people with the disease back into the country, that\u2019s when he said, “Don\u2019t worry about it,” and now his own Health and Human Services secretary says, “Well, you have to prepare for reality. There may be more cases.” She was “at a media breakfast hosted by the journal Health Affairs and held at the Washington, DC, offices of the Kaiser Family Foundation.”<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if anybody from the IMF, the World Bank, or the UN was there. <\/line><\/p>\n

She said, \u00c2\u201cWe had one case and I think there may be other cases, and I think we have to recognize that as a nation.” Her “comments come as screening of travelers from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa has been stepped up at U.S. airports. On Wednesday, the first patient diagnosed with the virus on US soil died in Texas. She expressed confidence in the screening process that has already been in place in travelers\u2019 departure cities, but acknowledged that no such system is 100%.”<\/p>\n

Then from the UK-based international market polling firm called YouGov… You\u2019ve heard of them, YouGov.com,<\/a> polls and so forth. They\u2019ve got a story: “As Ebola Comes to the US, Concern Rises.” This is a poll taken from YouGov and The Economist magazine. This poll proves just how racist the US is. <\/p>\n

You see, in a nutshell, this poll claims that Americans only began to care about Ebola once it hit the US, not when it was ravaging western Africa. We couldn\u2019t have cared less when it was only in Africa. The most appalling result is reported the bottom of the article. The poll found that 62% of Americans think, quote, “more would have been done” to combat Ebola if it had not originated in West Africa. <\/p>\n

Worse still, 95% of black Americans believe there would already be a cure for Ebola if it had originated in America or Europe. <\/p>\n

This is the economist, YouGov. This is a poll as we were discussing in the first hour. CBS suppressed their poll of bad news on Obama and the Democrats. It\u2019s a classic what polling has become. It\u2019s a news story. A poll is a news story. And since it\u2019s a news story, see, it proves the truth. We\u2019re a bunch of racists and the race-baiters have won. Yeah, we didn\u2019t care about this. We don\u2019t care about any world. We don\u2019t care about ourselves. All we care about is ourselves. When it was in West Africa, nobody here cared. And if it had been first discovered in Europe or America there would already be a cure. The white people would have taken care of themselves. That\u2019s what this poll claims to say a majority of Americans believe. <\/p>\n

See what racists we are? “Forty percent of African-Americans say they are very concerned about the possibility of an epidemic here.” It\u2019s confusing when you get down to it. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. We\u2019ve got Dr. Frieden here, and this is at the World Bank Forum. We just quoted him, but I want you to hear him. The World Bank Forum on the Ebola outbreak, attended by members of the Star Wars cantina from the United Nations, the World Bank and the IMF, Dr. Thomas Frieden.<\/p>\n

FRIEDEN: I will say that in the 30 years I\u2019ve been working in public health, the only thing like this has been AIDS. And we have to work now so that this is not the world\u2019s next AIDS.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, he\u2019s on the verge here of declaring that this is the world\u2019s next AIDS. We\u2019ve gotta do everything we can. It could be as bad. It\u2019s horrible. Remember that as context for the next bite, which is from yesterday afternoon in Atlanta at the CDC. Dr. Frieden held a press conference on the Ebola outbreak and a question he got from a reporter during the Q&A. “There\u2019s some critics out there, Doctor, who are saying that even with these enhanced efforts, that people are gonna fall through the seams, gonna fall through the cracks, and that your efforts won\u2019t be enough. People are still gonna get in the country. Will these efforts be enough to protect the country, to protect other people from Ebola?”<\/p>\n

FRIEDEN: As long as Ebola continues to spread in Africa, we can\u2019t make the risk zero here. We wish we could. We wish there were some way that they could make it zero here, and I understand there have been calls to ban all travel to West Africa. The problem with that approach is that it makes it extremely difficult to respond to the outbreak. It makes it hard to get health workers in because they can\u2019t get out. If we make it harder to response to the outbreak in West Africa, it will spread not only in those three countries, but to other parts of Africa and will ultimately increase the risk here. That\u2019s why the concept of “above all, doing no harm” is so important here.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know, folks. Look, I have no doubt, by the way, that this guy is trying. I am not gonna impugn this guy\u2019s motives, but I think what we have here is a typical intellectual theoretician. He lives in a in a philosophical theoretical world not really attached to reality. The reality is the theoretical, the what-if, the maybe, rather than the what is. Why couldn\u2019t we have special flights for aid workers? Why can\u2019t we charter one of those jets that we brought the people home and have those go in and out and still shut down general public air travel? What is this you can\u2019t get the aid workers in because then we couldn\u2019t get \u2019em out if we banned travel? That\u2019s just absurd. <\/p>\n

Look, as I say, I don\u2019t want to impugn the guy\u2019s motives. I think the guy\u2019s trying and he may be a fine scientist, but I don\u2019t know that he\u2019s equipped here, either… (interruption) Well, here\u2019s the problem he\u2019s got. Nobody in this administration can even come close to addressing the concept of tightening the border, much less close it. You can\u2019t because over here your president wants amnesty this year by executive order. If you\u2019re in this Regime you can\u2019t say or do anything that would raise the support level for shutting the border. <\/p>\n

So in order to stay away from that, you have to delve into inanities. You have to say, “Well, what we have to do is to contain this in Africa. But containing it in Africa is mean.” That\u2019s what he\u2019s saying, Mr. Snerdley. Snerdley is trying to figure out, “What did this guy just say?” What he\u2019s saying is our only hope is to contain it in Africa, but by doing that we\u2019re being racist or judgmental or mean-spirited or whatever. We can\u2019t just contain it in Africa, although that\u2019s what we have to do, but just keeping it in Africa is unfair to them. <\/p>\n

The guy\u2019s got shackles on him that are labeled political correctness. He\u2019s trying his best with the restraints or constraints that have been imposed on him by virtue of what he\u2019s been taught. I mean, he thinks it\u2019s mean to contain a disease where it is. It\u2019s mean to the people to whom you\u2019re containing it. It isn\u2019t fair. It\u2019s not fair that they have it and other people don\u2019t. And so shutting down the country, that\u2019s not fair, although that\u2019s what we should do, but we can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: It might be helpful, ladies and gentlemen, if you happen to know where Thomas Frieden came from, the director of the Centers for Disease Control. Did he come from the Joycelyn Elders school, for example, where she wanted to teach masturbation in all the public schools. Or does he come from the C. Everett Koop school? He was the Surgeon General. <\/p>\n

Well, here\u2019s who Dr. Thomas Frieden is. He was the health commissioner for Mayor Bloomberg in New York City. And Dr. Thomas Frieden, as the health commissioner in New York for Mayor Bloomberg worked with Bloomberg to increase tobacco taxes. He was right there banning smoking from workplaces, including restaurants and bars. Now, it\u2019s too bad that Dr. Frieden won\u2019t allow us to crack down on Ebola as hard as he\u2019s cracked down on cigarettes. <\/line><\/p>\n

But I was talking yesterday, AIDS was the first virus to ever have privacy rights. It was the first virus to have civil rights. And Ebola may not be far behind because the same guy who was willing to ban smoking from workplaces and enforce it to the max, send people in to find people smoking and fine \u2019em, first offense, and worse after that. He was the smoking nanny. He was the smoking nanny for Mayor Bloomberg. He worked with Bloomberg to raise tobacco taxes and ban smoking from the workplace. He succeeded. <\/p>\n

This is the point. Dr. Thomas Frieden succeeded, along with Mayor Bloomberg, in banning cigarette smoking in an entire city, the largest city in the country. But the same guy says you can\u2019t stop people from flying into the country from an Ebola country. Now, the last I checked, you don\u2019t need a visa to smoke. You do need a visa to get into the country. Frieden did not think it was mean to contain cigarette smoking in New York City. He thought that was responsible. Cigarette smoking is not proven to kill everybody who does it. We can\u2019t even calculate a smoking death rate, actually. There\u2019s no way of actually doing it. And even at that, smoking takes decades to make people sick. <\/p>\n

Not Ebola. So here\u2019s a guy who had no problem stigmatizing smokers. Here\u2019s a guy who had no problem banning them to the outer reaches of society because they smoked the evil tobacco weed. But with Ebola, well, you know, there\u2019s nothing really. It\u2019s bad, but, you know, it\u2019s just not fair, just can\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, in addition to the smoking ban and stigmatizing smokers as the filthiest, deadliest people in the city of New York, Dr. Thomas Frieden, who now runs the Centers for Disease Control, was the man behind the banning of trans fats in restaurants in New York City. His health department also required chain restaurants to post calorie information to raise consumer awareness of the caloric impact of fast food. That\u2019s who this guy is. You were asking me, “What is he saying?” This is who the guy is. <\/p>\n

Smokers are public enemy number one, and we will banish them and their activity to the far reaches of our society. And we\u2019ll do it with smiles, and we\u2019ll do it with punishment in mind. It takes decades to kill from smoking and there is no secondhand smoke death risk. That\u2019s another suppressed survey. The United Nations, the World Health Organization, they did research and they found it and they suppressed it. They did not report it, but we got the cached file from the website way back in the nineties. They studied it in country after country after, secondhand smoke might make people uncomfortable, but there\u2019s no illness attached to it. It\u2019s a big myth. Anyway, that\u2019s who the guy is. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Kyle in Sun City, Arizona. Hi, Kyle. I\u2019m glad you waited. Great to have you here. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thanks much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, do you remember back — I believe it was 2009 — when we had that H1N1 flu pandemic sweeping across Central America?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is H1? Is that a bird flu?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, that was the flu virus.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Flu virus, flu virus, H1. Yeah, vaguely I do, 2009, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, we had Kathleen Sebelius.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah! Oh! Oh!<\/p>\n

CALLER: She was out there doing those news conferences and sneezing into her sleeve.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now I remember, yes! She was everywhere. Oh, yeah. Oh, now I remember. Yes, yes, yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, we had all that fearmongering from the administration then, and then we had Joe Biden. He did an interview where he said he would not allow his family to travel in enclosed spaces, i.e., like an airplane. So what\u2019s different now?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What has Joe Biden said about Ebola?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, my question is, he wouldn\u2019t allow his family then to fly in an airplane.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I know. I know. But it\u2019s Biden. I mean, he was undercutting his… I have Sebelius in my mind, and there was fear. I mean, they were really trying to raise — I\u2019ll call it consciousness raising rather than fearmongering. They were trying to raise that and they\u2019re pushing the vaccine, right? I don\u2019t remember Biden. He always gets in on the act. He tries to put the exclamation point on everything, and ends up putting his foot in his mouth. So I get your point. It is, if the H1 virus, which didn\u2019t amount to anything, was enough to keep Biden and his family out of enclosed places like an airplane cabin…?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Of course, now they\u2019re telling us there\u2019s nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, if you don\u2019t see any symptoms. Nothing at all to worry about if you don\u2019t see any symptoms. If you don\u2019t see any symptoms, it\u2019s impossible for the disease to spread — they think. No, I get your point. These contradictions in the way things are being dealt with, they really are stark. But I tell you, do you know what my favorite one is that we\u2019ve learned today? I\u2019m serious. <\/p>\n

Here this guy at the CDC, this Frieden guy — who will not go out of his way to ban anybody with Ebola getting into this country — was the guy in New York who sends cigarette smokers as far away from the mainstream as he could get \u2019em. He banned smoking everywhere in public, in ballparks, in parks, because smoking kills? It may take 30 years to kill you, but it supposedly kills. Smoking? That\u2019s the guy running the CDC? There\u2019s no way cigarette smoking is anywhere near as life-threatening as this is, and he\u2019s treating it in an entirely different manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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