Posted on 10/16/2014 1:24:34 PM PDT by lbryce
A Republican lawmaker claims the real reason the Obama administration is opposing a travel ban for Ebola-stricken African countries is that U.S. officials are concerned about hurting their economies -- a dollars-and-cents reason, the lawmaker says, doesn't make much sense.
Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., whose House subcommittee held a high-profile hearing Thursday on the Ebola virus, told Fox News that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden is the one who gave him that explanation.
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I'd sure change my plans.
Most trips from the US are to south Africa.
Wait. Help me understand. Deaths and people dealing with the dead won’t hurt African Economies?
My opinion is that family tourism to almost anywhere in Africa was close to insanity BEFORE the ebola outbreak.
how many americans in the usa have decided not to travel as they don’t know if someone from Africa was on the plane before them? idiots....
lets all call the airlines and request prior flight info on all aircraft be posted when making a reservation....yeah that’s the ticket
If that's all it takes to wreck their economy they must have implmented obamanomics over there!
This virus has already destroyed their economies.
If it spreads here it will most certainly destroy OUR economy.
Apparently to Obama, the healthy and safety of Americans takes a back seat to other countries’ survival.
Its insane.
Not very knowledgeable. Friends went to Kenya and other friends from Nambia/Capetown. My only contact regarding african safari tourism
The title is too laughable to even comment on...sadly.
Trans-border ethnic and tribal identity, and porous political borders; could there be lessons there for the USA?
From King Obama on down this entire government is more concerned about their foreign friends than they are about we American citizens they were hired to serve and protect.
Our politicians or 90% of them don’t seem to learn anything except how to accept bribes.
.....According to Pascaline Le Gouar, senior author of the study, Ebola disrupts gorillas in a very unique way, with entire populations quickly moving from an affected region and dissolving.
“Along with the decrease in survival and in reproduction, Ebola outbreak perturbed social dynamics in gorilla populations,” Le Gouar explained in a release.
According to the study, once gorillas became aware of an Ebola threat they began to purposely isolate themselves, no longer immigrating with neighboring populations and only rarely breeding. The result? The virus quickly runs out of hosts, disappearing from shrinking populations entirely in the course of a few months.
And while that’s good for gorillas, it leaves investigators with nothing to work with, and back at square one......
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/8642/20140820/hunting-down-ebolas-origins-little-late.htm
Send them a cheque for $2.50 and close the border. Seriously how many people travel to Liberia?
Don’t do a travel ban and hurt every country’s economy.
Don’t do a travel ban and hurt every country’s economy.
If Ebola goes exponential in this country, these officials better leave this country and keep looking over their shoulders for the rest of their sorry, pathetic lives.
Actually, if you imposed a ban on the 3 African countries.
There’s a good chance that the western countries can stamp out the sparks that have escaped.
Waiting to do so, just allows more sparks to escape until it becomes unmanageable in other countries.
Actually, if you imposed a ban on the 3 African countries.
There’s a good chance that the western countries can stamp out the sparks that have escaped.
Waiting to do so, just allows more sparks to escape until it becomes unmanageable in other countries.
ditto
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