[bestintxas]

We have lost all reasonableness to exist as a country.

[tips up]

What happens to our economy when hundreds of workers stay home for three weeks because they might have been exposed to someone w Ebola?

[Sooth2222]

I don’t think the African Hot Zone has too many “fledgling economies”. They seem to be mostly moribund economies.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Shut down the borders, to people from the most infected countries.

Right now.

[b4its2late]

Bull crap! Keep burning up the phone lines to Washington. The ahole in the WH needs to do the right thing.

[LibFreeUSA]

- Obama won't protect Americans from Ebola because "his affinities" are with Africa, not the U.S. "He's their leader."

- Dr. Keith Ablow

[sickoflibs]

Plus we have so much $$$ we can afford about $500K per foreign patient.

Martin O Malley will welcome them with open arms here.

[MrB]

Don’t embargo my dried monkeys!

[Travis McGee]

[Triple]

Why would an airline, as a profit seeking operation (or even one that wants to stay in business) send its planes into Ebola hotspots to pick up passengers?

Hello? Do they want to stay in business?

The free market could easily and should take care of this situation.

[trubolotta]

Goebbels refined the Big Lie technique. It seems that some in our government are intent to improve on that and introduce the Barrage Lie technique. Tell enough lies and some are bound to stick.

[Moonman62]

That should tell you what the federal government thinks of the little people it rules.

[dowcaet]

It’s amazing that countries like St. Lucia and the Philippines have no problem instituting a travel ban and we won’t. Look at Belize and how they responded the minute they found out about the Texas nurse on the cruise ship who was showing Ebola symptoms. They stopped that boat from going into port and are restricting the entire group of passengers and crew from entering their country. We are the greatest nation on earth and we are being led by stupid, politically correct, inept and bought off idiots. Our entire political class has led us to disaster and this, I fear, is only the beginning.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s sad. All this Ebola and Enterovirus commie lib bull**** comes back to one thing. The DemocRATS insane desire to flood America with non-Americans. Amnesty.

[AlaskaErik]

I can only hope that enough low-information voters see the light between now and election day. One problems is that so many are too busy watching Honey Boo Boo and Bridzillas to know what's going on in the world.

[tentmaker]

The point isn't just about the economies of those nations, it's about their ability to fight and contain the outbreak being dependent upon their economic state. CDC reasoning for not endorsing a travel ban seems to be:

• They don't work at containment.
• They reduce the ability to track/monitor who is traveling and how they travel.
• They hamper efforts to get resources in and out of the outbreak areas.
• They affect the regional economy, making it more difficult for small countries to fight the outbreak.

Our focus needs to stay on finding the method for containment that is fastest, most effective, has the lowest infection and fatality rates, and also is the most efficient. Economic impact is not a high priority until it changes our ability to contain the outbreak.

[DannyTN]

Not quarantining countries and communities until the threat has passed is the most devasting thing you can do to those countries.

If you don’t believe that government has a handle on it and it’s safe to do business with these countries, then you don’t.

If you don’t believe that you will be protected from sitting next to someone with ebola on a flight, then you don’t fly.

If you believe going to the hospital will expose you to Ebola, then you don’t go.

[DannyTN]

Not quarantining countries and communities until the threat has passed is the most devasting thing you can do to those countries.

If you don’t believe that government has a handle on it and it’s safe to do business with these countries, then you don’t.

If you don’t believe that you will be protected from sitting next to someone with ebola on a flight, then you don’t fly.

If you believe going to the hospital will expose you to Ebola, then you don’t go.

[SECURE AMERICA]

When Obama and the CDC are done screwing this up and thousands of Americans have died, I hope that they all end up in jail!

[rbg81]

The horrid movie version aside, “World War Z” was an excellent book. One of the underlying themes was how the Zombie virus was facilitated by poor Government policy choices. In the book, the Government downplayed the danger of the virus in its early stages out of fear of hurting the economy. You see that dynamic being played out here as well. Except that its a combination of economics and PC that prevents us from enacting common sense measures.

[boycott]

West African nations have economies?