[Right Brother]

This whole thing is not making sense at almost every level.

[DannyTN]

It makes a little sense.

1. They are more worried about panic and economic consequences than they are about containing the disease. You see this repeatedly when they claim the worst thing we can do is panic. We saw the same thing with SARS. Yet their failure to take aggressive action leads to panic, and somehow they can't see that.
2. They are more worried about being politically correct than they are about containing the disease. You see this in WHO statements about protecting people's dignity as a reason for not putting in travel protections. Yet their failure to take aggressive travel protections results in people not wanting to travel and travel stocks are now getting killed. Surprised it took this long really.
3. They are relying on old information. "Not airborne, hard to catch" is based on old weaker strains of ebola. The rate of spread in West Africa, and the number of health workers and ebola doctors that have caught it, demonstrates, this ebola is easy to catch and is somewhat airborne. That old information is getting people killed. Not sure if they are in denial or just spewing old information because they think it will head off a panic.
4. We are at risk because our country refuses to put in place travel entrance restrictions. It's contrary to the whole immigration/amnesty actions of the last 6 years as well as the failure to secure our borders by mulitple presidents. So it's not completely unexpected. Yet, it's likely to be their downfall, as voters are going to demand the borders be secured.

[pepsionice]

So you say this with a straight face:

1. African guy with an accent shows up at some Dallas hospital....throwing up in turbo fashion...fever...and he just gets some marginal medication and sent back home without asking about his recent travels.

2. You announce that you are checking folks coming into the US with a temperature device....which will tell you in an effective way if they have Ebola or not.

I would agree...there’s no real common sense here. Sending US military off to Africa on a mission without an end-date (likely to continue for decades). I don’t see how you allow anyone arriving from outside of the US to enter....without an Ebola test administered and likely forcing everyone to remain in some Airport quarantine area for twenty-four hours as a minimum.