Posted on 10/02/2014 7:10:39 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Let the Law Suits for Criminal Negligence begin. Then watch the airlines wake up.
Ebola hysteria doesn’t build resistance to it.
Refuse anyone from those countries and anyone who has a stamp on their passport from those countries in the last year.”
I don’t know of any airport or airline that checks passports for incoming passengers on a flight that originated in the U.S. So, like the guy in Dallas who is infected, once in the U.S. international passengers can travel all over the U.S. without any questions being raised.
Perhaps they do this on flights that originated outside the U.S. The issue along the southern border presents an entirely different set of problems as these people generally have no papers at all yet are allowed to cross without their progress being impeded.
I would think it would be relatively easy to just issue an order that non-stop flights from the affected countries would not be allowed to land anywhere in the U.S. But that wasn’t done from the get go and that germ is already out of the test tube.
Don’t think there is anyone in any government agency who has given extensive thought to this issue, put a plan in place and set the plan in motion. Certainly part of it would have to include closing the southern border and we know that isn’t going to happen.
This is all such bull crap. Whether or not the traveler is exhibiting symptoms on the flight, he could have been infected in one of these areas and become symptomatic and contagious up to 21 days after the flight.
Sure, it’s a little loony to be putting such passengers on commercial flights anyway, but it is ingenuous and insane to claim that flying such people into the US doesn’t present a grave and massive risk.
LOL. Ebola truther?
And it would be reasonable for the US to follow suit and ban direct commercial flights from Liberia and Sierra Leone and Guinea -- except there aren't any so what would you be banning?
Glen Beck says he could have answered this question from a “dead sleep”.
Because it wouldn’t help. They’ll fly somewhere else first then come here, or at least potentially infect people coming here. It’s a big world with lots of ways of getting from point A to point B.
We have the capability to prevent any nonessential flights out of those countries to ANYWHERE. We should use it for humanities sake.
Gotcha. So by crippling the economy in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and making it extremely difficult to fly in food, medical supplies and health workers, you think we'll contain the outbreak. I'm not a public heath expert, but public health experts I've heard from all indicate that that's actually the way to guarantee that the epidemic spreads.
“I don’t know of any airport or airline that checks passports for incoming passengers on a flight that originated in the U.S.”
Yes, that’s why you refuse entry into the USA.
I get hassled at the border all the time about my passport, and I carry a USA and an Israeli passport.
“Why hasn’t the U.S. closed its airports to travelers from Ebola-ravaged countries?”
Given Prez Obola’s open borders policy, what’s the point?
crisis. to. exploit.
plus it kills americans. cherry on the top.
I would appear to me that there were two opportunities to prevent the infected person from coming to Dallas: when he tried to board in Brussels and when he tried to deplane in DC. I can’t imagine anyone in DC trying to keep a Black passenger from getting off a plane, regardless of where he was from. Not sure what kind of an agreement we have with countries like Brussels which would prevent him from even leaving there.
Seems like it would also be a good idea to revoke the Visas of anyone coming from an infected country although we already have a country full of people with invalid visas. This approach would be valid on paper and in the press, but wouldn’t be enforced. I just think no one of influence and authority in DC cares who comes into the U.S., what they are bringing and why they want to come.
Maybe if enough people who do care quit flying and the airlines suffer financially, one of them will establish some policies that reduce the potential risk. But then we still have the southern border to worry about and we know the feds will take no action there.
I don't believe their economies are very dependent on air travel. They certainly were not dependent on Mr. Duncan's trip to Dallas. Note that I said "nonessential". I have no problem with aid of various sorts flying into those places.
Bring back American Ebola victims.
We need things to do in America, bringing back American Ebola victims would bring us jobs.
In fact, bring back all Ebola victims. It will lower our unemployment.
Bring back Ebola victims now.
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