Posted on 10/02/2014 7:10:39 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Several African nations have restricted or banned air travel from Ebola-stricken countries, and airlines including Kenya Airways, British Airways, Air Cote D’Ivoire and Nigeria's Arik Air have suspended flights from the countries. Front Page Africa reported on Wednesday, though, that Kenya Airways and Air Cote D’Ivoire are expected to resume some of their so-called "Ebola flights" this month.
Others airlines have greatly reduced air travel in the region.
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They can’t say there isn’t a precedent. Obama temporarily suspended flights to Israel because of rocket attacks by Hamas.
So shouldn't you ban all such travel? Or is it no big deal as long as no fellow passengers get infected but they still come to the US, then develop symtoms, and start infecting people?
That is where you are very wrong....Ebola IS political.
It was a political decision not to quarantine in Africa an extremely deadly disease.
The only question to ask democrats is WHY? Why do you want to kill Americans? What is the end goal of allowing it to spread here because the facts are that by not quarantining it there it is here now by your political hands?
BS...you quarantine any who have been to those countries. Looking at the stamps on the passports before they board US bound planes takes care of most of that problem by air.
No, banning direct flights would not reduce infected individuals coming into the country. The potentially infected would just take a connecting flight, just like anyone else. You would have to block all flights out of Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia.
Thus said Pharoah's wise men to him about the water turned to blood, frogs, boils, gnats, etc. to no avail. Then people started dying and he let them go.
Flawed reasoning?
Suppose I’m in Liberia. I want to travel to the United States.
I get on Travelocity (or what ever travel site).
Starting Location: Monrovia, Liberia
Ending Location: Dallas, Texas
It will then give me an itinerary. Aw bummer. No direct flights. But there are lots of flights that connect through Brussels / Paris / London /Cairo. I’ll take that one that goes through Brussels.
If the United States stops direct flights to Liberia, travelers will simply have to choose a one-stop flight rather than a non-stop flight.
The only people that will be stopped from entering the United States by blocking all direct flights from the Hot Zone to America are those who will only fly on a non-stop flight.
That would be virtually NOBODY.
Yes, I think that travel to the US from those countries should be banned for non-US citizens and that returning US citizens should be quarantined for at least 21 days and subject to a thorough examination.
But you are talking about a different strategy.
Quarantining travellers is an effective strategy.
Simply stopping direct flights from the hot zone is completely different and is entirely ineffective.
If we suspended entry to the US by people with passports from Liberia and other affected countries, that would partially address the issue of connecting flights. It is not a perfect solution but it would be a start.
Someone said last night Savage wanted to bring the Democrat party up on charges for this. I agree.
My point is that the disease doesn’t care if you are Republican or Democrat. Everyone’s life is potentially at risk....even the politicians’ and their families’.
But, what if, though, you combine a minor Ebola outbreak (e.g., A recent Liberian traveler visiting LA or San Francisco) with a major natural disaster, e.g., perhaps a major earthquake with great numbers of injured and dead, and damage to local or regional infrastructure. Seems to me the system would be overwhelmed, and a wider outbreak a greater threat. I don't know...I am not a doctor. Can the "system" in a metropolitan area handle and isolate hundreds of actually infected people? Seems to me, there must a point where even our system become overwhelmed.
It’s a problem, and we should definitely ban the flights. But I’m wondering why the EU hasn’t banned these flights, there are multiple more flights going from Africa to Europe than those coming into the US. The ebola case we have in Dallas changed planes in Brussels, I wonder how many people on that flight just got off in Brussels and went into Europe. 100, 200?
More to the point, there AREN'T any direct flights. There are simply zero direct scheduled flights from Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone to any point in the Western Hemisphere.
British Airways, Air France and Saudi Arabia have all banned flights.
Not virtually nobody. Literally nobody. Because there are zero scheduled flights from any affected countries to the United States. I'll also point out that the vast majority of African air travel is paid for in cash - not booked on Expedia or Travelocity - so tracking flights within Africa is extremely difficult. If someone flies out of Casablanca it would be extremely difficult to find out that they flew through Freetown.
Because it’s a false flag op.
Why aren’t the legislator screaming bloody murder about this? Crickets as far as I can tell. Laura Ingraham is a voice in the wilderness.
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