Does Clay Jenkins Really Have a Heart or Is He Scamming Us?

It wasn't enough for Jenkins to pull a stupid stunt which put him - and everyone with whom he comes in contact - in double jeopardy of developing Ebola.  But, it gets better.  He made sure all media organizations knew what he did, knew that he wore no protection, and that he sent the message to ordinary people that this disease was not at all dangerous.

For a public official to do something that irresponsible. But, then he doubles down and goes home to his family, and sending his daughter to school in Highland Park to potentially infect classrooms full of children. 

GREAT JOB.  Calling you "judge" is a misnomer for someone with such terrible judgement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSMA3jRyNNA

This just in!  Clay Jenkins showed up at the hospital and is licking every surface from the common areas to the health care worker's car.

Press Conference on 2nd Ebola infection:  Jenkins stressed the virus cannot be transmitted by aerosol or casual contact.  Mayor Rawlings then gets up and goes on to say they have deployed and decontaminated all surfaces in the common areas of the apartment project, contacted everyone in the project and surrounding neighborhood.

Out of an abundance of caution, Jenkins should be quarantined and separated from his family, not because of possible contamination but because he is a preening idiot.

The doc says the caregiver was following full precautions when dealing with Duncan.  Full suit.

Jenkins is up for re-election starting with Early Voting on October 20th.  He is pandering to the usual suspects, mostly the black community, where he sucks up to Price to keep black voters (and their vote harvesters) happy. 

He knows he may be in trouble for re-election, because many Democrats have had it with this administration of his, as well as Obama, and may stay home or crossover to vote for some of the better Republicans. 

The problem is, Jenkins tried to hard in his pandering, and now simply looks like an incompetent political fool.  (The mini-mansion for the Duncan clan of illegals was just one example of the absurdity).

Thanks, Dingo, for LA Times link, which backs up what I said here a week ago about transmission and the propaganda line from Big Brother.

At that time, griffmanstrong commented: "I wonder if Schutze here realizes he's peddling the same sort of viral (cuz it's online, geddit?) alarmism that webshites like Infowars, Naturalnews, and Prison Planet are propagating. Good to see the DO reaching out to a wider, albeit crazier audience. Maybe next time a piece on vaccines?"

Griffmanweak, please see this story:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-questions-20141007-story.html#page=1

Then  go screw yourself.

@noblefurrtexas

If you came away from the news conferences with the impression that "this disease is not at all dangerous", you were not listening. If you were listening and had this as the message, you did not understand.

Jenkin's daughter had a zero chance "to potentially infect classrooms full of children". Zero.

You have come completely off the rails. Irrational and inaccurate don't go far enough to describe what you are posting.

Experts: Ebola Vaccine At Least 50 White People Away ...

@lyndarobertson99 Best post of the week!

@holmantx

Jenkins has set a fine example should a similar circumstance occur, risking his life and others to combat the stigma society has placed on those who have had close contact with ebola, which is based on racial animus, xenophobia, nosophobia, emetophobia, syngenesophobia and all those issues republicans have. There is nothing to fear but grisly death itself!

He should be feted before before he kicks, not after.

@lyndarobertson99 Now one of the health care workers has possibly  come down with Ebola, at least in the first test.  We'll see what happens from here, but pray this person does NOT have Ebola, or that government covers it up.

@DallasJedi How he did it is NOT - repeat N O T - the way you handle it!

Jenkins is grandstanding, and has put untold numbers of people - including himself - at risk.  That is ignorant, irresponsible, high-risk behavior.  And, it proves beyond a doubt that re-election is more important than his family. 

As I mentioned elsewhere, we know from dealing with highly radioactive substances, and with biological warfare experiments, that wearing protective clothing is only as good as HOW you remove the clothing after being exposed!

Some units even employ a buddy system where someone else who is protected carefully removes and disposes of the clothing the protective devices another employee has worn.

Ebola is not like normal bacteria generally seen in a hospital.  You can't clean in up by treating surfaces like you would with staph protective procedures.  Ebola is a virus, and very virulent one that can live and be active outside of the body for an undetermined amount of time.  

Jenkins did exactly the wrong thing, and was a horrible example for everyone who saw the news he so desperately wanted to make.  Frankly, he should be recalled for putting a huge number of people at risk by doing all the wrong things. 

@DallasJedi Jenkins is a fool.  He took public health risks that are not only foolish, but dangerous to the community.  So, clearly, he's not very bright to put re-election before preventing infection. 

And, a mini-mansion was a nice touch.  Now it has to be fumigated, and the family goes back to the crowded apartment. 

Grandstanding is apparently what Jenkins does best.

@JimmyTwoBags Jenkins is a fool, and a grandstanding politician who has accomplished little. 

I just saw him on television grandstanding at the Presbyterian Hospital.  He was a stuttering and stammering fool who had a difficult time pronouncing many of the words.

Jenkins had no right exposing himself, and secondarily his family, his staff, and all those with whom he had contact, because he wanted to look like a "caring" county judge and candidate for re-election. 

Anyone who thinks this is "leadership" needs a head shrink. 

Ebola is a communicable disease that, unlike AIDS, does not require contact. It can be spread by heavy breathing, coughing, sneezing, and methods of transmission from bodily fluids.  We now have a healthcare worker who may have it, and that worker was capped, gowned, gloved, and masked while caring for Duncan. So, it's clear the disease is not all that difficult to get. 

If Jenkins were my employee, I would fire him on the spot for carelessly and potentially putting a great many people in jeopardy of catching a deadly disease - just to get re-elected. 

@JimSX We, in this country, are so fortunate to have had the best medical care on the planet for decades, and one of the best public health disciplines ever.  But, having eradicated several dread diseases, we have one or more generations of people, doctors, merchants, journalists, and bus drivers completely unfamiliar with dealing with a communicable disease - especially like Ebola. 

Illegal aliens have brought back TB, once considered almost eradicated.  And, there are other very contagious diseases that we haven't seen in many years which are making a comeback in the areas where illegals have settled. 

I don't think you can be too cautious about a disease like this.  There's no reason to panic, but being well-informed is forewarned. Unless I've got it wrong, that's largely the job of the media.  (I'm still p'od at Jenkins for exposing his family to this disease, and then letting his children go to school.  THAT is the classic definition of irresponsible and stupid.)

If a healthcare worker (who is hermetically sealed from catching the disease, but may have contracted it  anyway) is testing positive for it in the initial stages, there's a lesson about caution there that should be learned. 

Too bad we have so many politicians who have ignored it, or want to politically milk it for all it's worth. 

@ivyhall 

you must have missed this...no need to wait.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/2010-03-25/news/was-county-judge-jim-foster-really-the-disaster-his-own-party-claimed-maybe-maybe-not/

@mavdog Actually, Jenkins said, himself, that he didn't wear protective clothing in order to be sensitive to the family members, and show others there was nothing to be afraid of. 

He's a foolish idiot pandering for votes, but outsmarted himself and now looks like a blithering fool.

@bvckvs @holmantx

No, that was the white one.

@TheRuddSki

So this morning - Sunday - the Mayor beats on all the doors in the apartment project, reverse 911's every land line in the neighborhood, hangs flyers on every door in the entire area, Hazmat's all common areas and the infected apartment again . . . telling everyone to not panic.

@noblefurrtexas

Not to worry, he carries a little bottle of hand sanitizer and uses it after some of his bathroom breaks, just in case.

@lyndarobertson99

Ebola has been a blessing for people who like to use the word "xenophobic".

@bvckvs you are a scam

@bvckvs @JimSX

You have trouble thinking.

@holmantx

I see people and press are rushing to the apartment of the infected, this is not how ebola panic is supposed to work.

@TheRuddSki Well...there's a load off.  :)

@TheRuddSki

Ebola groupies

@noblefurrtexas

On the bright side, Dallas will be known for more than killing JFK.

@lyndarobertson99 @TheRuddSki When you are dying from Ebola, all of your organs are shutting down, your body is basically turning against itself, and you're mentally aware of dying, you could care less how YOU look or THEY look. 

Jenkins wants to look good to get re-elected.  Because, otherwise, he's done nothing substantial as Dallas County Judge but be a stooge for Price, the criminal. Now, the CDC is hedging their bets and saying there will likely be more cases and deaths. 

@lyndarobertson99

It's a thin line between brave and stupid.

Anyone who traipses around an ebola-contaminated space and then goes home to his kids is a f**king moron.

But at least he's not xenophobic, which the main concern here.

@holmantx

Reportedly, the infected nurse has received hundreds of marriage proposals since the news broke, and Jesse Jackson's jet is circling DfW in case she's black.

@TheRuddSki Finally!  Of course, this is going to hurt the tourist trade for a while, but there's always Ft. Worth who can say in chorus, "See?  We told you that town was a disease pit!

Amon Carter would be proud. 

@TheRuddSki

This just in!  Man in Hazmat suite breaks past police barriers and a Clay Jenkins press conference, strips down to speedo and dives in the apartment Ebola pool.

@holmantx

Nice visual.

Damn lucky that Dallas is at Seattle today.

@TheRuddSki

WAIT!  There's more; THIS JUST IN

NEWSFLASH! Canadian cow keels over in Montana of Mad Cow and 65 nations ban American beef.

@holmantx @TheRuddSki You left out the part where Jenkins goes out into the fields and kisses all the cows, then eats one to show Mad Cow disease is not dangerous. 

Of course it is perfectly normal for a county judge to do clown flips and declare himself the zombie reincarnation of Bozo.

@holmantx

#protocol!

@noblefurrtexas @holmantx @TheRuddSki

Jenkins then blew chunks.

Chunks is a registered Hereford bull.