The real motivation for all that Ebola preparedness comes out:
(PORKVILLE) -Senator Chuck Schumer on Monday called on U.S. secretary of health and human services Sylvia Mathews Burwell to recognize the enormous amount New York hospitals have spent preparing for and treating the Ebola virus, and use some of the money she was given by Congress to reimburse hospitals for their expenses.
Burwell has 30 days to come up with a spending plan for the $733 million her agency received from the latest continuing resolution, a $1.1 trillion spending package that allotted a total of $5.4 billion to combat Ebola.
Most of that money is headed to West Africa, where the epidemic continues to claim thousands of lives, but some can be used domestically.
Schumer said he would like New York hospitals to receive roughly $50 million
“I am urging secretary Burwell to make sure all of New York's institutions are completely reimbursed for their funding,” Schumer said at a press conference today outside Bellevue Hospital. “That was the purpose of the fund when we push for it and created it.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio has already reimbursed Bellevue, a part of the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation, $20 million for the expenses it incurred when treating Dr. Craig Spencer, the physician who contracted Ebola while working with Doctors Without Borders in West Africa.
But other hospitals have spent tens of millions of dollars preparing for the virus, Schumer said.
Montefiore has spent approximately $7.5 million building a biocontainment unit and training staff, Mount Sinai has spent between $7 and $8 million, and New York Presbyterian has spent roughly $3.3 million, according to Schumer's office.
Ken Raske, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association, estimated the ten Ebola-designated hospitals in New York have collectively spent between $50 million and $75 million on capital construction, the purchase of protective gear and training.
Try and look surprised at the prospect of a Democrat senator trying to shove both arms armpit deep into the taxpayers' pockets and keep everything he can get his hands on.
Webster's Dictionary could save space by consolidating the entry for Chuck and the entry for chutzpah. Or at least using the same picture.
Today being the Ides of October, we're instituting a special award for some very special people (in the short yellow bus sense of the word "special"):
The people over at Young Conservatives, and their link-love buddies over at Got News.
Specifically, we're referring to Michael Cantrell at the YC site, and Charles C. Johnson, the purported "editor and founder" of GN. (We can't help but assume the "C." stands for Clown.)
It seems that the monumental jackasses in question cannot read.
Taking this fascinating lack of skill or brainpower to new heights, they then took advantage of the current ongoing Ebola news to spread lies and fear, because Internet.
To wit:
BREAKING: Horrible News For The Boyfriend Of The Ebola Nurse
Read more at http://youngcons.com/breaking-horrible-news-for-the-boyfriend-of-the-ebola-nurse
It looks like there might be a third case of Ebola in Texas, as the boyfriend of Nina Pham, the nurse who contracted the deadly disease from Thomas Eric Duncan, has been admitted to the hospital for reportedly exhibiting symptoms of the illness.
From Got News: An email sent out to the Alcon staff by its CEO reportedly said that the ebola nurse’s boyfriend was admitted into hospital with “Ebola-like symptoms.”
They then link a screenshot of a purported ALCON memo from their CEO:(click to embiggen it)
https://cbsdallas.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/fullsizerender.jpg
And here's where the wheels come off the fucktard wagon:
The memo they point to in alleging that "the associate" (Nina Pham's bf) was admitted to the hospital "with Ebola symptoms" ACTUALLY says
"he is being monitored for potential signs and symptoms", and
"has not shown any signs or symptoms of the Ebola virus."
In short, both sets of fucktards involved in this cruel sham can't even read their own fucking articles, and are thus merely ignorant jackasses spewing pure bullshit, panic, and lies by getting the story headline exactly ass-backwards, and sowing chaos by their mere existence.
Doubling down on all this, both sites have multiple (but still too few) e-mail responses noting that they've roundly fucked this up completely, yet no correction has been made to either site, and the rippling reach of the internet has this BS being repeated mindlessly in FB posts and links, by their fellow literacy-challenged moron fan-monkeys.
Clearly, public education has consequences.
Well done, Michael Cantrell and Charles C. Johnson, today's undisputed
Assclowns Of the Ides.
Your prize luncheon will be in the bowl the next time we use the restroom here. Hopefully someone who knows either of you in real life will give you each the 5 minutes of crotch-kicking and throat-punching you so richly deserve, followed by civil lawsuits for libel, and referral for any applicable criminal statutes.
And then go after your families for not strangling you in your cribs when they had the chance.
Unless you do the decent thing now, and suck-start a loaded 12 ga. shotgun, for the good of humanity, and the improvement of the human race.
If either of them does that, while we won't likely be able to attend the subsequent funeral(s), we vow to send a nice note to either or both saying how much we approve of it.
If life were truly fair, someone would jiggle the handle of the Universe, and you two wastes of skin and oxygen thieves would swirl away forever.
