This afternoon, officials held a press conference on Ebola at the White House. It was about as reassuring as you’d expect from any White House presser. Which is to say, not really very reassuring at all:<\/p>\n\n\n
WH Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco says US using "whole govt response" to control Ebola epidemic at its source. pic.twitter.com\/sXaRT9kZnx<\/a><\/p>\n — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n Whole government? Oh, thank goodness!<\/p>\n\n\n At WH briefing on Ebola, HHS Secy Burwell says US has the health care system "to contain this disease." pic.twitter.com\/hSpLtJJ2Fd<\/a><\/p>\n — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n Is that so?<\/p>\n\n\n MT @markknoller<\/a> WH briefing on Ebola, HHS Secy Burwell says US has the health care system "to contain this disease." https:\/\/t.co\/MwSYvFH5do<\/a><\/p>\n — S.M (@redsteeze) October 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Flawed software, not human error, caused missed Ebola diagnosis, Dallas hospital says http:\/\/t.co\/TZuQRIIHXv<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/FRt0OLqedJ<\/a><\/p>\n — NBC News (@NBCNews) October 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n Lovely.<\/p>\n\n\n US health care infrastructure "well-equipped to stop Ebola in its tracks," says Dr. Anthony Fauci of NIH. pic.twitter.com\/ZchaGV3xKc<\/a><\/p>\n — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n He must be referring to that “robust government-sponsored health care system”<\/a> ThinkProgress was so excited about.<\/p>\n\n\n Right now, officials say screening for Ebola patients most effective in the source countries in West Africa, than on arrival in US.<\/p>\n — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Fauci says US has "well-established" facilities to handle and respond to cases of Ebola. "Our structure would preclude an outbreak."<\/p>\n — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Monaco tells @MajorCBS<\/a> that screening air travelers in West Africa are effective in stopping Ebola passengers from leaving.<\/p>\n — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Fauci goes even further: says US health care system “would make it extraordinarily unlikely that we would have an outbreak" in the US.<\/p>\n — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n So, who feels better now?<\/p>\n\n\n The US has the ability to contain Ebola, but can't build a website that doesn't crash. Gotcha.<\/p>\n — Matthew (@Matthops82) October 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Sorry if I don't have faith in the govt to contain ebola. Maybe the pessimism stems from how much they screw everything else up.
¯_(ツ)_\/¯<\/p>\n — Matthew (@Matthops82) October 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n ISIS is a JV squad.
You can keep your plan if you like it.
Detroit is thriving.
We should totes believe that govt has ebola under control.<\/p>\n — Matthew (@Matthops82) October 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Can you imagine if Kathleen "404 Care" Sebelius were up there saying, "no worries, we got this"?<\/p>\n — DrewMTips (@DrewMTips) October 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Look, our protocols failed the first time they were tested but we got this guys<\/p>\n — DrewMTips (@DrewMTips) October 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n Suuuuuuuure they do:<\/p>\n\n\n BREAKING: Photo from the White House briefing on #Ebola<\/a>: pic.twitter.com\/zeMiPihRbt<\/a><\/p>\n — CounterMoonbat (@CounterMoonbat) October 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.<\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/10\/03\/we-got-this-guys-wow-dont-you-feel-better-after-whs-ebola-presser-photos\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/markknoller\/status\/518142177420259328 This afternoon, officials held a press conference on Ebola at the White House. It was about as reassuring as you’d expect from any White House presser. Which is to say, not really very reassuring at all: WH Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco says US using "whole govt response" to control Ebola epidemic at its … Continue reading ‘We got this guys’: Wow, don’t you feel better after WH’s Ebola presser? [photos]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[2704,415,411,414,293,263],"class_list":["post-4710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-anthony-fauci","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-outbreak","tag-health-care-system","tag-mark-knoller","tag-white-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/14327848234192-screen-shot-2014-10-03-at-4-48-05-pm.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}