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RUSH: Here\u2019s Ryan in Grand Prairie, Texas. Glad you waited. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. It\u2019s an honor. I am actually a resident of Dallas County but I work for a large municipality in the Dallas\/Fort Worth area as a paramedic. I don\u2019t claim to be an expert in infectious disease, but I\u2019d like to give more of a boots on the ground situation to you. Most of the time people assume EMS is like what you see in Chicago Fire. But it doesn\u2019t work that way. When you get a call for a shortness of breath and you show up and they\u2019re coughing and you ask them, you know, the litany of questions and whatnot. They say they\u2019re fine. They say they\u2019re just a little sick. And then about two weeks later the supervisor comes to me and says, “You\u2019ve been exposed to tuberculosis.” This has happened to me four times seriously, and a fifth time I was wearing a respirator because, you know, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, exactly, right.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: And I think this can shed light on Ebola<\/a> here. Our health care system here — and I can speak about Presbyterian because I\u2019ve waited over an hour with patients on the cot there — it\u2019s overworked. And people don\u2019t understand how the divert status works. You could be in an accident, you could have a heart attack or stroke, but we\u2019re given updates throughout the day who\u2019s on divert. So even though this hospital may be a mile and a half from you, we go somewhere else \u2019cause they\u2019re not accepting anybody because they\u2019re so swamped.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ryan, hang on your thought. I gotta take a break here and we\u2019ll continue this when we get back. Don\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re back to Ryan, EMS in Grand Prairie, Texas, near Dallas. Ryan, I was just reading, the ambulance that transported Thomas Duncan supposedly was not scrubbed down immediately. And, in fact, the same ambulance picked up a homeless man who the hospital couldn\u2019t find for several hours after he wandered away from the hospital. I mean, nobody knew what they were dealing with at the time, including, I would assume, you guys, the guys on board that ambulance, the EMS people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct. Yeah, and that\u2019s the thing. How it works is you clean your ambulance on the threat level, so to speak. They could have ran three or four calls after that, you know, and then they went back to the station, they were there the rest of the evening. And Mr. Duncan, you know, he was waiting in that hospital room for so long, you know, they say — now, I\u2019m not an expert in infectious disease, obviously. But if he was sweating, just the evaporation of the sweat, you know, that could be enough to trigger a delayed response in someone else. He could have been —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that seems right to me. That\u2019s a precious bodily fluid, sweat. It does happen to evaporate. Yeah, yeah. That\u2019s an excellent point. Well, you guys are doing the Lord\u2019s work. And here\u2019s a question I\u2019ve got. I mean, hospitals are dealing with one patient here, one patient there. What happens if it becomes 10? What happens if it becomes 50? I don\u2019t know what the state of preparedness is. The CDC says: We got it handled, don\u2019t sweat it, We\u2019re not gonna bring anybody in the country that\u2019s got it. We\u2019re doing great screening procedures, don\u2019t worry. Yet in Europe they\u2019re telling everybody be on the lookout \u2019cause we think it\u2019s gonna spread throughout all of Europe. It\u2019s inevitable that that\u2019s gonna happen. Now, they\u2019re closer to Africa, obviously. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Chuck in Valhalla, New York. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello, Chuck.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Mega dittos. You know, I had one thing that I have not heard said about this Ebola thing<\/a>, and maybe it\u2019s a little out of line, but it seems to me that stopping immigration from these countries affected by Ebola should be done because if it saves one child, isn\u2019t it worth it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hmm.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think we have an obligation to keep our own kids safe.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes. Yes, I hear you, Chuck. In fact, now that you mention that, whatever happened to that? Whatever happened to, “If it saves just one child.” That is a marked difference. There is a really profound difference in the way public health officials are dealing with this versus other things. And whatever Draconian steps are necessary, if it saves the life of one child, we had to do it. Like raising taxes for welfare benefits or what have you. “For the children” used to be the way you put the final nail in the coffin to get anything you want. It was for the children. If it saves just one child\u2019s life. And we\u2019re not hearing anything approaching that here. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s all political, folks. I know some of you don\u2019t like hearing that, but this stuff is all political, and the way this is being politicized, and if you don\u2019t believe me, just be patient and wait, you\u2019ll see it on your own. All of this in the media is being couched in terms of how it will impact Obama and how it might help or hurt Democrat electoral chances in November. I\u2019m not being snarky, facetious, making it up. It\u2019s the aspect of this that interests the media. Is Obama gonna do well here? Are people gonna trust Obama? If it goes wrong, is it gonna hurt Obama? Is it gonna be a big attack on Obama\u2019s perceived leadership? These are the kind of questions that the Drive-Bys are very much concerned about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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