Stasi: CDC boss — ex-health comissioner in NYC — is a screw-up
bryan smith for new york day after day news CDC head Dr. Thomas Frieden is the former NYC shape commissioner. If Amber Vinson had just had a 16-ounce soda or some brackish potato chips in her hand instead of a fever on her brow, she would never have been allowed on that plane.Soda kills. Ebola, eh?
In case you forgot, the head of the CDC, Dr. Thomas Frieden — who has screwed up and screwed us royally in this Ebola quandary — was Mayor Bloomberg’s self-righteous, dictatorial Commissioner of Shape and Mental Hygiene before he got this gig.
Yeah, that’s right, he’s the large sugary soda, salt, trans-stout and smoking ban guy; the you-aren’t-smart-enough -to-reckon-for-yourselves guy.
How then did this genius issue Ebola protocols that allowed a woman with a fever who had cared for Thomas Duncan to board a passenger flight?
Large, sugary soda? Call the cops! Exposed to Ebola, with a 99.5-degree fever? Welcome on the teach!
Worse, instead of taking the hit himself and manning up about the CDC protocols, he said that in hindsight the CDC could have been more hands-on. You reckon?
Not that the dread-mongering media is making this quandary any better. No, we do not have an Ebola epidemic here, but an outbreak – and a full-blown panic fueled by the media’s need to feed the hungry 24/7 news machines.
TV news in particular has turned the two cases of Ebola — those related to Duncan — into the equivalent of the black plague in the 14th century.
Cool down! The United States 2014 is not some tiny West Africa village without original water, food, doctors or medicine, for God’s sake.
Meantime, you don’t see the usual TV anchors – who can’t wait to report from disaster areas in their dashing flak jackets – fleeting into Ebola-infected villages so quick. Can you blame them? I mean, unknown looks dashing in hazmat.
Still, boots-on-this ground know-it-all newscasters are making an environment of dread and full hazmat for everyone else.
The other day on “Morning Joe” for example, “The View’s” Nicolle Wallace really told a doctor: “I saw the movie ‘Outbreak’ nearly two decades ago and this is exactly how Ebola spread and became a very dramatic national catastrophe. Why weren’t there things in place because you can’t say we couldn’t imagine this — it was in a Hollywood movie!’”
So was Godzilla, but we still don’t have protocols in place to protect us from giant monsters from Japan knocking down Las Vegas either.
PacificCoastNews.com Chris Noth called Sarah Jessica Parker’s ‘Sex and the City’ character ‘such a whore.’ Yes, Ebola is a quandary, but the panic is as fabricated as any other Hollywood monster.
Tragically, we still don’t have protocols in place to stop the epidemic of TV Talking Head syndrome either.
HE’S ‘BIG’ MOUTH NOTH-ING
Sex and the City Oilskin: Chris Noth told an interviewer that Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw character was “such a whore,” apparently forgetting that this show was a hit at the turn of this century, not the last one .
Brand Name Twits: Maybe the Donald should get off Twitter long enough to tend to his empire instead of zealously tweeting all day. His latest tweet rant was a spill of unconsciousness about Russell Brand’s appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.” And it would have been valid if Brand had really appeared on that show. Talk about an apprentice go!
Carlos Alvarez/Redferns via Getty Images After Bono’s news, what’s the reason behind Mick Jagger’s moves? Oh No, Bono! What’s the point of living now that Bono announced that he wears sunglasses not because he’s cool, but because he has glaucoma? What’s next? Will Mick say that the reason he moves like Jagger is because of incontinence?
NEW NEST EGGS
First came freeze-dried eggs, then women started freezing their eggs, and now we have Apple and Facebook, the Huge Brothers for our time, allegedly encouraging female employees to delay pregnancy by adding coverage for egg-freezing procedures.
Wait a minute here! Despite all the knee-jerk reactions, the truth is that Facebook offers this coverage not just to the female employees, but also to spouses and domestic partners. They also cover sperm donation, adoption reimbursement expenses and four months paid parenthood/paternity leave. Apple is set to start offering similar coverage next year.
Theodore Parisienne City Hall aide Rachel Noerdlinger’s boyfriend racked up several parking tickets — with her car. Bingo.
Even though Apple’s horrid IOS8 downgrade has really hurt my life and foisted upon us miserable masses new slow-as-dancing-dead-men downloads, their fertility benefit isn’t a disreputable female snare, it’s really an upgrade. One that might work this time.
CITY HALL CRAZY LOVE
On Friday, the Day after day News reported that ex-con/killer boyfriend of City Hall’s Rachel Noerdlinger, Hassaun McFarlan, told a judge the only reason he gets parking tickets is because he’s a black man with a nice car. Just to be clear here? Really, he’s a black man whose girlfriend has a nice car. Anyway, acting as his own lawyer, he added: “Is it evidence into consideration that the police be lying?” Right. Who can fight with that logic?
Axl Goode via Facebook
Axl Goode, male stripper and model from Texas, is in self-quarantine after possible exposure to Ebola.
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Axl Goode via Instagram
Axl Goode (left) and Taylor Cole (right) sat at near Ebola patient Amber Vinson on a plane.
Xposure/AKM-GSI Bruce Jenner is reportedly dating the best friend of his soon-to-be ex.
Here’s better information: Call the stripper, not the CDC. He’s got a valid defense to do nothing.
BRUCE ON THE LOOSE
Bruce Jenner took time out from having plastic surgery to look more like a woman to date one. And as a real “screw you” to his ex-wife Kris, the woman he dated is her former supporter/best friend, Rhonda Kamihira. Kris is said to be heartbroken. She was hoping he’d start dating himself.
