[TigerClaws]

Nice graphic.

Obama in the sitdown speech he gave today said that a travel ban wouldn’t work because travelers would break up travel and come in from other places.

Don’t they have passports to enter the U.S.?

It’s idiotic PC flim flam.

They WANT Ebola here to create yet another crisis they can take advantage of.

It’s backfiring though politically as EVERYONE knows all of these U.S. cases are Obama’s fault.

[EternalVigilance]

Yep. He can’t blame Bush. At least without virtually everybody laughing at him.

[martinidon]

“Don’t they have passports to enter the U.S.?”

Bingo! I keep hearing dems make this statement as a reason a travel ban would not work and it is complete BS! Who cares if they break up their travel. They still have to have a Visa and Passport to enter the US. All we need to do is cancel all Visa's from West Africa and they will never be able to board a plane to the US.

My prediction, a travel ban is coming. Let a couple more people get Ebola or a new traveler from West Africa get into the US and come down with Ebola and even the chosen one, Obama, will have to relent. In fact, he is already setting himself up to changing his mind when he said today, “if” the experts think we should change our process and procedure “I” will. See it wasn't his idea not to have a travel ban, it was the experts....

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“..throttling travel would hammer already devastated West African countries, make it difficult to send relief where it’s needed, and send an unknown number of infected travelers into the shadows, increasing the difficulty of knowing how many were entering the U.S.”

First, if flights are banned from infected areas, and this is carefully monitored, how do ‘infected travelers’ go ‘into the shadows’ to get here? What does that even mean? Second, no one said not to send relief and help to the affected countries, and a flight ban ‘from’ there doesn’t mean we can’t send things ‘to’ there (the turn around flights don’t have to have domestic passengers from those countries). Third, the more money we have to spend here trying to prevent the spread of Ebola in our own country, the less money there is available to help stop the spread in Africa, and to help develop a vaccine etc.

[bassmaner]

Imagine if the Ebola hot-zone countries were not Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, but instead were Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

Any bets on how fast there would be a travel ban?