I’m missing something here. Liberia closed its borders back on July 28. All the countries around Liberia have closed their borders, Guinea on Aug 9 And Ivory Coast on Aug 23. The WHO is asking for enormous sums of money to combat the problem in theatre and we’ve sent troops to set up and staff quarantine areas. So why is the WHO saying that banning flights would make the outbreak “harder to deal with”? Isn’t containment the objective?
You are correct. A lot of this is about money, aid packages...etc.
They do the same with global warming scares..
This is not to demean or make the issue seems smaller then it is, but the latest numbers, are these...
(Updated September 29, 2014)
•Total Case Count: 6574
•Total Deaths: 3091
•Laboratory Confirmed Cases: 3626
How we get from here to 1.4m by January is a puzzle I cannot decipher..But it is what it is..
As to the transport issue. They are scared to death (pun) that transport would at some point be interrupted. Common sense tells you that simply the threat of this would cause any volunteers, aid agencys and their related funding to evaporate because the workers may not be able to come back when they want to. Not to mention the WHO people and the CDC would have to hire private aircraft and get special permits to fly in or out..causing a logistics issue.
So it’s all related....