Diary Prequel Package — page 377

bring Ebola back to the USA. Ridiculous. I got many congratulatory e-mails from people telling me how well I did on the Sunday Shows. In the evening, I did CNN. Oct. 6, 2014 - White House meeting discussed increased entry screening, but no firm recommendations to date. Big 24 hour News topic is whether to close the borders to West African flights. I have been very vocally against this (as had Tom Frieden) since it will only isolate the West African countries and make them less able to deal with the epidemic. It could cause political instability and even government collapse. In my interviewers over the past 2 days I have said that to interviewers as good as Chris Wallace and as less experiences as Elizabeth Hasselbeck of FOX News. Two things have resulted:1) I am getting a lot of hate mail from crazy neo-Nazi types who say that we should not care about dysfunctional black Africans. In addition, bloggers are cheering me on about taking on the right wing news people about closing the borders. I do not feel that I have "taken them on"; I have just told them my opinion. Bloggers have been particularly hard on Elizabeth Hasselbeck saying she was completely over-matched in her interview with me. I did not know beforehand, but she apparently has been a star on "Survivor" and "The Voice" TV Shows. She clearly is very beautiful, and I do not think that she is stupid the way the bloggers are saying. Press appearances today: CNN New Day; Fox and Friends (Elizabeth Hasselbeck); Diane Rehm Show; MSNBC; PBS The NewsHour (Jeff Green) Seems that we (Cliff and I) have won the battle to convince people that we need to do an RCT for an Ebola Vaccine. Oct. 7, 2014 - Continued media frenzy. Each day they pick something else to hammer into the ground. Topic today is the POTUS considering increasing the level of screening by possibly introducing "entry" screening with temperature and questionnaire. Discussions divided along ideological lines. Right wing saying to close borders; execute or euthanize African patients. I have been on the air stressing the lack of rationale for closing the borders of African countries not permitting travel. For the first time since the old AIDS days, I am getting hate mail telling me to go "rot in hell". Also, the right wing bloggers who comment online after my TV clips are shown online are trashing me calling me a liberal asshole selling out to Obama and his socialist views and liberal leanings. Very weird stuff here. More press today → CNN New Day; Wilson Center teleconference (call in); WTOP Radio; MSNBC (Ronan Farrow); WCBS radio New York; FOX with Lou Dobbs; Alan Colmes Radio Show Oct. 8, 2014 - Media frenzy continues. White House came out today and indicated increased layer of screening at airport on the arrival/entry level with: 1) temperatures; 2) questionnaire about contacts; 3) presence of sxs; 4) quarantine if necessary. The White House in its ridiculous need to control the message will not let Tom Frieden or I do any TV today (OK for tomorrow) since they only want DHS out there delivering the message. Hate mail continues as well as just criticism from far right.