Flashback April 2010: Obama Kills Bush Quarantine Rules

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From an April 2010 archives of the USA Today:

Obama administration scraps quarantine regulations

By Alison Young, USA TODAY | 4/1/2010

The Obama administration has quietly scrapped plans to enact sweeping new federal quarantine regulations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention touted four years ago as critical to protecting Americans from dangerous diseases spread by travelers.

Sadly, this was not an April Fool’s joke.

The regulations, proposed in 2005 during the Bush administration amid fears of avian flu, would have given the federal government additional powers to detain sick airline passengers and those exposed to certain diseases. They also would have expanded requirements for airlines to report ill passengers to the CDC and mandated that airlines collect and maintain contact information for fliers in case they later needed to be traced as part of an investigation into an outbreak

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If you didn’t live through the Avian Flu in CA you have little idea how expensive it was.
A Mexican national LIED about his background working with Mexican poultry so he could get a job in a chicken/egg ranch in northern CA.
He got the job.
He infected all those birds, and through breeding programs and prize rooster-sharing, he also infected nearly 2/3rds of all CA’s egg and poultry birds.
The price of eggs and poultry jumped.
These animals had to be killed…..not for food.
ALL zoo and animal park birds had to go into quarantine for over a year.
Duck and goose hunting was curtailed, hunting tags were very hard to get.
Birds literally fell out of the sky into people’s yards.

All because of one man lying to get a job.

It makes you wonder what Obama’s end game is in this……
No condoms are covered, so STDs spread under O’Care.
Older folks are being conditioned to not bother with medical care, simply taking the painkillers instead.
Diseases are flying into this country from foreign lands.
4 children have died on the enterovirus 68.
It is spreading like wildfire in public schools.
People are keeping their children out of schools.
Now ebola.

It’s simple, really. Obama couldn’t destroy the US through politics, so he is doing it through deliberate inaction against a virus with a 50% mortality rate. It is bad enough that he just sent 3,000 people into harms’ way to “assist” the outbreak countries- someone is sure to get Ebola. But by not closing the borders to people who have come from outbreak countries, and by not quarantining them for 21 days, he virtually guaranteed that Ebola would insinuate here in the US. And so it has.
Remember when immigrants came to the US through Ellis Island and the sick ones were quarantined? That save a world of hurt for US citizens. If anyone out here can give me a rational and logical reason that we don’t do this now for known killer viruses, I would like to hear it.

Beside dereliction, this is also called criminal intent.