Mo. doctor protests CDC by showing up at Atlanta airport in Hazmat gear: 'CDC is lying'
Dr. Gil Mobley thinks the CDC is 'sugar-coating' how serious a threat Ebola is to the U.S. 'The CDC is asleep at the wheel,' he said.
BY Meredith Engel
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, October 2, 2014, 1:21 PM
John Spink/AP Mobley said the federal body is ‘sugar-coating’ the risk of Ebola overwhelming the U.S.
A microbiologist and emergency trauma physician is taking extreme measures to protect himself from Ebola.
Gil Mobley checked in at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Thursday in a protective jumpsuit, goggles, gloves, boots and overalls to protest what he thinks is a major bungling of the Ebola crisis by the CDC.
He urged passengers to not wait for official recommendations regarding the disease, which has killed more than 3,000 people in West Africa.
"The CDC is asleep at the wheel," Mobley told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, blaming the federal org for "sugar-coating" the risk of transmission in the U.S. "It's going to be bad, and I want to make sure that this conversation is happening that this could get out of control in the U.S."
His move comes two days after a man in Texas became the first American diagnosed with Ebola on U.S. soil, and one day after Mobley had a flight from Guatemala, where security only checked him for tobacco or alcohol.
Dr. Gil Mobley checked in to an Atlanta airport in full protective gear as a protest to the Centers for Disease Control.
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Mobley, of Springfield, Mo., made it past security in his protective garb. The back of his jumpsuit had the words "CDC is lying!" on it.
"If they're not lying, they are grossly incompetent," Mobley told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. "For them to say last week that the likelihood of importing an Ebola case was extremely small was a real bad call."
Mobley thinks that the disease will "consume every third world country" and as a result the U.S. "will be importing clusters of Ebola on a daily basis," which will lead to a U.S. epidemic.
Dr. Gil Mobley thinks the CDC is 'sugar-coating' how serious a threat Ebola is to the U.S. 'The CDC is asleep at the wheel,' he said.
BY Meredith Engel
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, October 2, 2014, 1:21 PM
A microbiologist and emergency trauma physician is taking extreme measures to protect himself from Ebola.
Gil Mobley checked in at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Thursday in a protective jumpsuit, goggles, gloves, boots and overalls to protest what he thinks is a major bungling of the Ebola crisis by the CDC.
He urged passengers to not wait for official recommendations regarding the disease, which has killed more than 3,000 people in West Africa.
"The CDC is asleep at the wheel," Mobley told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, blaming the federal org for "sugar-coating" the risk of transmission in the U.S. "It's going to be bad, and I want to make sure that this conversation is happening that this could get out of control in the U.S."
His move comes two days after a man in Texas became the first American diagnosed with Ebola on U.S. soil, and one day after Mobley had a flight from Guatemala, where security only checked him for tobacco or alcohol.
Previous Next
John Spink/AP
Mobley, of Springfield, Mo., made it past security in his protective garb. The back of his jumpsuit had the words "CDC is lying!" on it.
"If they're not lying, they are grossly incompetent," Mobley told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. "For them to say last week that the likelihood of importing an Ebola case was extremely small was a real bad call."
Mobley thinks that the disease will "consume every third world country" and as a result the U.S. "will be importing clusters of Ebola on a daily basis," which will lead to a U.S. epidemic.
