“No medical facility other than a specialized research and testing lab is going to use level 4 gear. It’s not gonna happen.”
Well I guess it’s going to spread like wild fire then. Right now in Sierra Leone. It’s spreading to 5 people an hour.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/02/ebola-infecting-five-every-hour-sierra-leone
“If this continues to run uncontrolled, like a forest fire, it will begin to spread up and down the African Western coastal communities.”
Yes and their weak economies will crash. Many of the infected immigrants (3 weeks this Ebola can not be detected) will come here since our borders are wide open. Plus they can fly here now with no ID.
The Ebola pandemic will flood and exhaust are already very busy health industry.
“We would not be able to stop them. There are far to many miles of unprotected coast, and of course the land borders. At this point, no transportation controls will work.”
I strongly disagree with this point. If we can medically treat, feed, house, school and give them welfare, then we can stop it by simply cutting off the benefits.
We can also end flights to the heavily infected countries and securing the border.
It’s not a fail proof system, but it’s a good start and better than what we have now.
“All this bickering over air travel fears brought on by one guy, is ridiculous.”
Well according to the CDC and WHO (World Health Organization) It has killed over 3000 people (about the same number of deaths of 911 was that over hype???), and is doubling every 3 weeks. It has a death rate of 70%. So I think the fears are more real than ISIS and Syria that the politicians are having an orgasm over.
“But the best way is to put the fire out at the source. If we don’t, our tools will be useless.”
It only dies when there is no host bodies left to jump into. This is why you quarantine them and do not let them into your country.
This is not a immigration problem. It is not now but will likely become a refugee problem....big difference..
If Ebola, which is unfortunately out of control on the African West coast, continues to spread..and it would if not brought under control, you would not be able to stop refugees from entering this country, even if you stopped all international flight, which would never be done BTW, because it would disrupt out entire economy.
Currently, nearly all transportation to Africa via air, is commercial flights from and to Europe, and the aid, doctors, nurses, and NGO teams are all using this these flights to get in and out.
If you curtail the commercial flights, you would need to replace them with military airlift,in and out of the US. If other countries curtailed their flight, many of them as well would have to provide military airlift to move their people in and out.
It might be possible to do, but I think I supported the idea that you would have to replace it. No NGO team or doctor or aid group would voluntarily go to west Africa, unless they could get out. If they could get out by going to France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium..whatever and then to the US, they would do that, as would anyone wanting to fly out.
The Dallas guy did not fly direct either...so what you would need to do is to not accept ANY international flights.
Just like when you build a fence on the border, or put a padlock on a gate, people will put up a ladder or go around the gate if they cannot jump over it.
If you think the Coyotes' are bad in Mexico, imagine the money that will be made by them for bringing Africans and other refugees from other infected 3rd world countries to the US, docking small boats from a mother ship at various points on our coastlines..
I think your solutions are far too short sighted.
I think your fears of a serious problem down the road are quite valid, but your solutions are all wrong.
Like many people I have chatted with over the past several weeks, I would advise you that isolating the US will not in the end, keep our country safe.
What will keep it safe, is the same thing we have been doing for a hundred or so years, and that is intervention at the source of the problem