Posted on 10/17/2014 7:04:19 AM PDT by bestintxas
The CDC doesn't seem especially willing to contend with the subject of Ebola virus transportation via air travel. Not to a nurse calling the CDC with potential symptoms of Ebola requesting to take a weekend getaway to Ohio, and most likely to Congress in today's emergency Congressional Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on the Ebola outbreak, featuring CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden, NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci, and other directors from the HHS, DHS and FDA. Although Rep. Tim Murphy is reportedly going to try.
Yesterday, the White House reiterated that a ban on flights originating in outbreak countries is not on the table, so Patient Zero could be in a boarding lounge as we speak (errrr....write), and while they haven't given much rationale for their unwillingness to cut off the booming market for tourism to West Africa, it turns out most of their rationale actually is the booming market for tourism to West Africa.
Murphy, though, said he talked with Frieden about a ban. “And he explained to me that what the concern was that these are fledgling democracies and if we put a travel ban that that may affect their economy and harm them,” the congressman said.
“And I see it as, look, we can still move planes in and out there with supplies. We can do a lot. And we can help in every other way with economics. We can provide a lot of support to these nations. And the United States is doing it both to government and nongovernment organizations. A massive amount of charity is going to help these people as we should. But I just don’t understand the concept of if we stop flights in travel that would be a problem. I think we need to do that
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The horrid movie version aside, “World War Z” was an excellent book. One of the underlying themes was how the Zombie virus was facilitated by poor Government policy choices. In the book, the Government downplayed the danger of the virus in its early stages out of fear of hurting the economy. You see that dynamic being played out here as well. Except that its a combination of economics and PC that prevents us from enacting common sense measures.
West African nations have economies?
I guess Skype hasn’t made it to Africa yet.
“what the concern was that these are fledgling democracies and if we put a travel ban that that may affect their economy and harm them...?” WTF? HARM THEM???
Your an American businessman are you going there to start a Company?
Somehow, there’s some morally superior “greater good” that’s supposed to be achieved by “diluting” the American Culture.
Translation
Money > People
That is not what the CDC director said yesterday. He said that that Hw wasn’t stopping the flights because if the people couldn’t come here by plane, they would come some other way ( walk across the border) and we would have no way of knowing who they were or tracking them.
You know what is really impacting these fledgling economies? It isn’t travel.
It’s EBOLA damn it!
Then why do they require passports? Nobody walking across out southern border now has one.
They require the passports so that they can track them, they cannot track those coming across the southern border.
They should think about what it is going to do to consumer demand in the US economy when the Ebola plague kills a third of the consumers as the black death did back in the 14th century.
But if they don't have a passport they can just walk across the border, so requiring a passport won't keep them out or insure they can be tracked.
So much of Sub-Saharan African are countries which economies are basket cases anyway. So why the concern about hurting their economies further?? really???
“... I hope that they all end up in jail!”
I hope that they all end up hanging at the end of a rope!
They are using tourism as a primary pretext to avoid travel restrictions.
BS, nobody is going to travel to countries with an active ebola epidemic in economically sufnificsnt numbers.
People traveling from Ebola struck nations to America will actually drain assets and economic activity from those countries
They are lying
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