Posted on 10/03/2014 3:33:41 AM PDT by markomalley
State legislatures could bypass the fed device or authority, and just require airlines flying into their state from the Ebola-region to post a bond of twenty million to cover costs if required. That would scare most airlines immediately to stop such flights.
The airlines must be run by morons. They fought the proposed safer travel law because it was deemed “too expensive.” Do they think people will be doing much traveling with Ebola victims on airplanes? They deserve to be boycotted.
That’s fine that Alan Grayson is calling for restrictions on flights to and from the ebola stricken countries, but where are the other congressmen/women? I haven’t heard a peep from anyone about this. This is insanity.
Typhoid Barky.
Maybe that's what the airlines said publicly, but I'm sure there was much more to it than simply the cost of complying with the law.
The bigger issue from the airlines' perspective is that the law would have required them to basically become unpaid recordkeepers for the CDC -- and that the airlines themselves would potentially be exposed to civil liability if they failed to correctly identify "sick passengers" at the point of boarding.
Hoping to quell the herd with the help of the UN WHO CDC and our commies in control
Anyone ? ?
Seems like they also scrapped the “AND PREVENTION” department of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Where are the first responders? Where is the first line of defense? Just a bunch of bureaucrats scratching their heads and pointing fingers.
Bump
I’m not convinced people would limit air travel. Right now I personally know an intelligent person who is continuing with plans for a trip to Turkey despite all the terror/ISIS implications. Even when he was told that traveling to Turkey would land him on various watch lists for life, he plans on making the trip. Incidentally, he will likely end up on various airlines and various airports that have been exposed to Ebola.
I know others who love cruising, are retired, and continue on with multiple cruises/year despite all the norovirus outbreaks.
These are successful people. Some are liberal, some are conservatives, some are RINOS. Most are in their 60s. I detect no fatalism. I think they have extreme cases of normalcy bias. Also, when travel slows down, the fares also decrease and I can vouch for the fact that many people will grab a *bargain*, regardless of risks.
The airlines will respond when they face legal suits.
I keep putting this together with the rabid environmentalists’ call for depopulation.
OK. Have me fitted for a tinfoil hat.
Obama’s Katrina...
Reminds me of California during the first run of Jerry Brown. He REFUSED aerial spraying for the Fruit Flies (which would have wiped out the entire citrus crop in the state), and only relied on ground spraying. The environmentalists LOVED HIM for it. So did the Fruit Flies.
Once he was replaced, the state had to SPRAY LIKE MAD, everywhere. They did manage to knock down the bug, but only after spraying at least 10 times, maybe 100 times as much Malathion as would have been necessary if they had simply sprayed in the first place. I still remember the planes going over and the light mist sprinkling down.
What is needed to be pointed out is that heads of deparments of government while those that are suggested to run them are recomended by the president. They sworn to protect and support the constitution, not the executive branch, and are approved to serve by the Senate in a procedure known as advise and consent. Therefore they and their respective departments are answerable to congress which funds these operations and can refuse an executive order if that order works contrary to existing legislation or the interests of the country ..
While this affected airline travel doesn’t the INS have or had similar regulations for immigration ? Which may have been enacted through legislation. Including background checks ?
Treason.
Almost as bad is we are now finding out.
Boehner, Cruz, Gowdy, Paul, (I am listing republicans, not who is conservative and who is not) Grahamnesty, McCain, no one seems to even have known or are saying...
Would our side have even brought this up?
Much like the welfare work requirement, stroke of a pen and our side doesn’t say a peep.
You would think one of the staff members of our side watches what 0bola does and lets our side know and our side perhaps might let the public know???
Lawsuits are imminent, if any of the people on these planes with Duncan come down with Ebola.
Proposed in 2005? That explains it. Bush’s fault. I know you could see that one coming-couldn’t you?
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