Sorry, but a guy who finds sodas and second-hand smoke to be a bigger threat to America than Ebola-
stricken travelers really has no business being the head of the CDC!
Idiot Alert: CDC Head Dr. Tom Frieden Behind NYC Smoking/Soda Bans
CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden opposes an outright travel ban on commercials flights to and from Ebola-stricken nations on the basis that “if people are barred from flying here from West Africa, they may end up finding other ways to enter the U.S. without proper screening to detect the virus.” Based on that logic, I might as well avoid locking my front door ar night, since criminals could end up finding other ways to enter my home.
According to the LA Times, during Dr. Tom Frieden’s seven-year-long tenure as commissioner of the New York City Health Department, he “helped ban public smoking in bars and restaurants.” He “also worked alongside [Mayor Michael] Bloomberg to promote a soda tax, arguing that it would help to lower obesity rates.”
Some also allege that he’s the architect behind Bloomberg’s very annoying and much aligned big soda ban.
Regardless, I find it exasperating how the same brilliant doctor who so vociferously opposes an Ebola travel ban sees no problem with banning big sodas and public smoking.
You want to know who else finds it exasperating? Fox News superstar Bill O’Reilly, who wrote the following in his latest piece, titled, “Incompetence, Going Viral“:
Dr. Thomas Frieden is the very personification of the politically correct nanny state when it comes to soda, free condoms, cigarettes, and trans fats, but he risks American lives out of concern for “fledgling” West African nations. Perhaps he would be more diligent if Liberians were drinking Big Gulp sodas as they were boarding in Monrovia.
. . . Let’s be clear. There is absolutely, positively no reason that citizens from Ebola-stricken nations should be allowed into the United States right now. And there is no reason for Dr. Thomas Frieden to keep his job.
He may have been ideally suited to fight a war on those dastardly big sodas, but he is intellectually unarmed when we are at war with a deadly disease.
President Obama is urging hospitals across the country to protect Americans by learning and following the proper protocols. Well, Mr. President, how about protecting us from Dr. Frieden?
Hear, hear!
Sorry, but a guy who finds sodas and second-hand smoke to be a bigger threat to America than Ebola-stricken travelers really has no business being the head of the CDC!
Originally written By: V. Saxena
