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Why hasn’t the U.S. closed its airports to travelers from Ebola-ravaged countries?
The Washington Post ^ | 10/02/14 | Abby Phillip

Posted on 10/02/2014 7:10:39 AM PDT by Enlightened1

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To: Georgia Girl 2
The fact that we are still letting flights from Liberia enter the country is totally insane. Laura Ingraham is right.

Yep. And if Obama wants to stick to his position as Ebola spreads, let him. It will be the end of the Democrap Party.


41 posted on 10/02/2014 7:45:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Enlightened1

They can’t say there isn’t a precedent. Obama temporarily suspended flights to Israel because of rocket attacks by Hamas.


42 posted on 10/02/2014 7:45:27 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Stingray51
"There is an up to 21-day incubation period. So it is entirely likely for an infected person to show no symptoms and not be caught by airport screening."

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?

43 posted on 10/02/2014 7:46:41 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Girlene
Not just Republicans...ebola is not political...it is deadly.

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?

44 posted on 10/02/2014 7:47:57 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: kidd
Stopping direct flights won’t solve the problem.

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.

45 posted on 10/02/2014 7:51:33 AM PDT by Lady Heron
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To: Right Brother
But it would dramatically reduce the potential vectors. Flawed reasoning.

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.

46 posted on 10/02/2014 7:51:50 AM PDT by LambSlave
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To: TexasCajun
“These are the experts, they have a keen understanding of how to prevent the spread of this disease,” he said, adding “we can stop the spread of Ebola in its tracks.”

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.

47 posted on 10/02/2014 7:53:18 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Right Brother

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.


48 posted on 10/02/2014 7:54:50 AM PDT by kidd
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To: circlecity

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.


49 posted on 10/02/2014 7:55:59 AM PDT by Stingray51
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To: Lady Heron

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.


50 posted on 10/02/2014 7:57:46 AM PDT by kidd
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To: kidd

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.


51 posted on 10/02/2014 7:58:00 AM PDT by Stingray51
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Someone said last night Savage wanted to bring the Democrat party up on charges for this. I agree.


52 posted on 10/02/2014 8:05:14 AM PDT by CommieCutter (The only thing the smart phone really accomplished was bringing the dumb people to the internet.)
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To: Lady Heron

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’.


53 posted on 10/02/2014 8:06:38 AM PDT by Girlene (Hey NSA!)
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To: Enlightened1
We need to cut the flow of potential Ebola infected people into the US now. It seems to me, that the WH's and CDC's confidence in our HC system in this case suffers from a few flawed assumptions. One of them is that it can handle and isolate a few cases. That may be, but it is a rather simplistic scenario - i.e., that all other factors remain that same.

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.

54 posted on 10/02/2014 8:10:11 AM PDT by Miles the Slasher
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To: Enlightened1

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?


55 posted on 10/02/2014 8:10:33 AM PDT by sharkhawk (Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.)
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To: kidd
Stopping direct flights won’t solve the problem.

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.

56 posted on 10/02/2014 8:10:45 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: sharkhawk

British Airways, Air France and Saudi Arabia have all banned flights.


57 posted on 10/02/2014 8:12:51 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: kidd
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.

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.

58 posted on 10/02/2014 8:13:04 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Enlightened1

Because it’s a false flag op.


59 posted on 10/02/2014 8:14:06 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: CommieCutter

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.


60 posted on 10/02/2014 8:15:39 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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