Posted on 10/08/2014 8:14:18 PM PDT by Prospero
Absolutely!
It has to be based on passports, not flights.
All these morons calling for flight bans don't have a clue. Duncan didn't arrive on a flight from Liberia. He arrived on a flight from Brussels!
Apparently we don't know very far.
obama will do nothing to deny visas to West Africans - he will not do anything against his brethren. obama’s minions line the idiot head of the CDC when questioned tried to confuse the idea by saying banning flights from West Africa would keep aid workers from getting there ... HUH?
As a card carrying leftist he deliberately did this to confuse the issue - a red herring to deflect knowing full well one had nothing to do with the other...
What can you do to force stoppage of bringing West Africans from the Ebola Hotspots into America — to stop the government from issuing visas to Ebola Hotspot residents ... to stop airlines from flying Ebola Hotspot Residents into the U.S. ?
- Incessantly call/fax/email the corporate headquarters all major International Airlines and tell them point blank that unless they stop transporting residents of West African Ebola Hotspot Residents to America - you will work with an effort to BLACKLIST them along with the efforts of millions of other Americans .. And will contribute to any legal fund to help file lawsuits against them for endangering the American public.
- Incessantly call/fax/email all politicians running for national office - 33 Senate seats up for bid and a large number of House seats... For the Democrats - ridicule them for being obama’s lackeys, lampoon their being dominated by obama’s insane policy of continuing to allow West African Ebola Hotspot Residents into America. Demand of all politicians running for office and those that are not this term... demand that they take definitive action to force the CDC, the State Department and Immigration to cease issuing Visas to Ebola Hotspot Residents... The CDC can issue health advisories insisting that travel by Ebola Hotspot Residents is dangerous to American.
After all, precision is important.
Is Russia visible from your house? Or from your state? (OK — not her, but you get the idea).
Restrict flights for individuals returning from Ebola-stricken countries or traveling under passports issued by them to a limited number of airports equipped to deal with detection, there are five or so I understand. And, quarantine them all for three weeks. Continue doing this until the outbreak burns out.
That’s the only rational way to continue allowing flights containing people who have been in those countries. If that can’t or won’t be implemented then halt entry outright to the extent possible. Certainly no one permitted entry with passports from those countries until “all clear” due to the outbreak burning itself out.
Right now, I would just settle for someone who had the right basic idea. It is sheer insanity to not be curtailing travel from these areas. Even if there is only a 1% chance of a global epidemic (and, unfortunately, it is probably well north of that), such a scenario is so horrendous that you just cannot take that risk. So, I am definitely not as concerned with the use of a short-hand as I am with the echo chamber of people trying to downplay either the chance of this going global, or how bad it would be if it did.
I would reserve the word “morons” not for those who claim that curtailing travel would hamper our efforts to contain this disease — after all, they have their agenda to push, and there own mistakes to cover up, giving them reasons to lie, other than stupidity. I would reserve the word “morons” for those that believe them.
Gather up three weeks' worth of living supplies. If somebody in the family gets sick, there would need to be a number to call.
After three weeks, sound the all-clear.
There are no guarantees of efficacy depending upon another country self-policing in that manner. It has to be controlled on our end. We’re concerned about our own people or certainly should be. You may feel differently.
That's true, given current technology.
But the real solution has to be to defeat the disease in the absolute, be it via effective treatment, vaccines that work, or containment strategies that work.
Let's hope that West Africa is the lab. And remains the lab. Only the lab.
Not really pertinent. The important fact is they are letting 100's of Liberians in every week with just a thermometer test. Not to mention we don't know what they've packed in their carry-on.
Are they real Baptists? Or just used the name.
WILL, not COULD, until some critical number of politicians say no more. The big donors don't care, the grass roots is still clueless.
The charity known as Baptist Children & Family Services has no relationship to the Baptist church. Instead, it is a garden-variety non-profit that is chiefly funded by government grants.
In his defense, he went to the hospital and he got some medicine and was sent home. Was he told to self-quarantine? Even if he lied about exposure to Ebola, it should have been assumed as a possibility on that flight out of Africa.
Thanks for the info.
“Running with diarrhea” is never a good idea.
And how are you going to confirm that such a three-week shelter in place directive was followed?
West Africans and those who have traveled there just need to stay out of the US for now.
Read the comments they’ve written to this article and it’s clear they would similarly excuse themselves to fly here if they could.
I hope you’re not attempting to quote Sarah Palin there as an example of someone who spoke of seeing Russia from her house without the requisite precision.
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