Another Republican profile in courage, Gov. Bobby Jindal.
Stupid Ebola politicization in public officials isn't limited just to New Jersey. No, Gov. Bobby Jindal's Louisiana has to get in on the action, and to potentially even more destructive ends than Chris Christie's targeting of healthcare workers fighting the disease. Jindal one ups him by targeting
disease researchers.
The state sent a letter yesterday to members of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, which is holding its annual conference in New Orleans next week. If they've recently been to any of the West African countries where the virus has infected more than 13,000 people, they shouldn't attend the meeting.
"We do hope that you will consider a future visit to New Orleans, when we can welcome you appropriately," said Kathy Klieber, Louisiana’s Secretary of Health & Hospitals and Kevin Davis, director of the Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness, in the letter.
Because, you know, what's a smarter thing to do when there's an infectious disease epidemic in a remote part of the world than to prevent the researchers of that disease to come together to discuss their findings and collaborate on a way to fight it? I mean, what's the point of figuring out how to fight Ebola where it is, in Africa, when we're here in the US?
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So way to go, Jindal. You've just proven your tea-bagger, know-nothing, anti-science bona fides again, several times over.