Petition to restrict travel from regions affected with Ebola

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/restrict-travel-regions-affected-ebola-protect-citizens-united-states-widespread-epidemic/1GmGhBKW ^ | Oct 01, 2014

[justlittleoleme]

Like this will do any good but figured I would share the link anyway.

[GOPJ]

Restricting travel from hot zones will help... it should have been done weeks ago.

[Sequoyah101]

I’d sign it but I want nothing to do with this white mosque.

[I want the USA back]

The only right thing to do, but it won’t be done. He knew it should have been done but chose not to do it.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I’d sign it but I want nothing to do with this white mosque.

Well said!

[cripplecreek]

The legitimate way is to lean on our representatives in DC.

[Sequoyah101]

Already have. Do often. Won’t stop. It does no good though.

They ignore us. They are smarter than us and know best what is good for us.

[mouse1]

yea what’s the worry, they have it contained

[bitt]

ping to petition

I say no more visas issued, for anyone!!! cancel the agreements with those countries that we have the ‘no visa agreement’ with, too...

“The Visa Waiver Program covers citizens of all European countries, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. These citizens still must fill out a Department of Homeland Security Electronic System for Travel Authorization before they leave home.”

[SueRae]

I don’t know how practical this is...unless Europe and other continents do it. How many airlines fly directly to and from affected African airports to the U.S.?

[GraceG]

Another ignored petition...

[bitt]

“The State Department has given visas to roughly 13,500 people from the Ebola-stricken countries of Sierra Leon, Guinea and Liberia, according to federal data.

The data doesn’t show how many of those people are already in the United States, but visitors from those countries should be excluded until they can show they’re free of Ebola, said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies.

“It would be reasonable to designate Ebola as a communicable disease of public health significance [because] that would enable the State Department to impose tighter restrictions on visitors” countries with Ebola outbreaks, she said.

Under current policies, only people with obvious symptoms — principally, a high temperature — are excluded by immigration officials.”

http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/01/white-house-we-wont-stop-ebola-carriers-coming-to-us/

[Guenevere]

CALL your representatives!!!!!...that’s what I’ve been doing today!

BEG them to refuse all flights from the Hot Zones!

[cripplecreek]

I don’t beg the president with some BS petition that has no legitimate place in our form of government.

[bitt]

at least it will shove it in his face....or in the faces of our crappy reps and senators...

[cripplecreek]

I called my congressman’s office just a bit ago. I was apparently not the first.

[Marine_Uncle]

RE: "I say no more visas issued, for anyone!!!"
I can agree on that suggestion. But of course it would
be an act in futility most probably to have it enforced.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Are there any flights from the hot zone to the US?

[devolve]

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- Obama’s chubby uncle in Texas will tell the truth I’m sure -

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[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

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So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...