Posted on 10/14/2014 7:54:51 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Even before Thomas Eric Duncan, who was being treated in Dallas for Ebola, died on Wednesday and a nurse who was treating him contracted this terrible disease, Republicans were vying with each other to shame the Obama administration into implementing a travel ban against Ebola-affected countries. That wouldn't be an unreasonable suggestion if it could stop the spread of the disease. But the fact of the matter is that it will do the opposite.
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The USA can deal with a hand full of cases, handful, if we get dozens/hundreds of cases we will be no better off then Liberia. Health care workers will quit/ first responders will quit then we are west Africa.
Doesn’t even need to happen to the U.S.
With open borders, all it takes is an outbreak in Central America. Comes up through Mexico.
Would Obama protect and defend our borders? Nope. Future Democrat voters by the hundreds of thousands, many infected, coming across.
Top down, bottom up, collapse the system.
Aren’t made up statistics wonderful?
This is one of those things that you read and you can’t even believe someone seriously could write something and expect it to be taken seriously. it defies any logic...but then again.. we abandoned logic the day we elected that monster in the White House. Ever since then all it’s been is a mad dash to rationalize everything he does.
I think Ebola, if run rampant, will hit the DemonRat herd faster than they can make new ones.
Is this author, Shikha Dalmia, one person? Cause I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea of so much STOOPID packed into one human.
I think only people essential to fighting the Ebola outbreak should be allowed to travel between the US and West African countries that have Ebola outbreaks. There should be no one traveling to the US on a tourist visa (B-2), fiance visa (K-1), or spousal visa (K-3). If this cuts down the number of passenger flights and cuts down the amount of cargo space available in the cargo holds of passenger planes, then perhaps more cargo only flights might be needed.
It would be easy to prevent a Liberian citizen who has been in Liberia within the last 60 days from boarding the aircraft in whatever city he is in.
Or a Guinean citizen, or Sierra Leonese if they have been in the home country within the last two months.
American citizens, might be more difficult legally. Make them present a blood test before boarding or something.
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Doesn’t matter what citizenship one has your passport tells where you have been.
Hopefully! I actually had some problems at the airport in Zurich, because the customs official there had a hard time following the sequence of stamps on my passport from a cruise I was on in the summer of 2012. Apparently the economic crisis in Greece was so bad that even customs officials in Greece couldn't get fresh stamp pads loaded with ink. They kept on using old stamp pads. The Greek exit stamp on my passport was very faint. Eventually the customs official in the the Zurich airport found the Greek stamp and stamped the passport with a Swiss entrance stamp. When I got home, I called up the travel agency that booked my cruise and informed them that they needed to warn the cruise line to beware that Greek customs officials were making barely visible stamps onto passports.
If the Ebola crisis gets worse, all sorts of things people normally expect to work will fail, especially in third world countries.
The thing to remember from Ferfal’s book is that things fall apart much faster than one might think.
Have US airlines ceased flights from Liberia/Sierra Leone?
I would think the airlines carry serious liability for negligence law suits from passengers infected by another passenger.
Getting Ebola on an air plane is a much more serious matter than spilling hot coffee. The fear an anxiety of all on the plane once it is learned their flight transmitted the disease should provide enough litigation for an army of ambulance chasers
That applies to flights from Belgium as well
Maybe a few Americans will die, Is that too much of a sacrifice to be politically correct. Maybe we should allow asylum to all people fleeing disease.
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