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To: Nateman

“Ebola kills people fast. That prevents it from spreading far. “

Wrong. Ebola has a 8-10 day incubation period which is plenty of time to get far and wide. The get symptoms to death time is 48-72 ish hours.

I have personally made it from Eastern DRC (geologist for cobalt) to DFW in 30 hours via airstrip cut into jungle > Kisangani> Kinshasa> Paris > DFW

One of the few times ever on an Antonov twin prop. Ah Soviet engineering.

So yeah during that exposure to symptomatic period Ebola can travel far and wide.

Houston and Atlanta are getting thousands of FIFA fans for the cup next month. There is a 21 day travel ban and visa hold for anyone who has been in the DRC or Uganda in the prior 21 days prior to their arrival but this only applies to noncitizens , dual citizens can come in and only need a temperature screening and a questionnaire filled out with CBP. Yeah that’s gonna work well. Tylenol worked for the last guy to fly to DFW in 2014 to get past the temp scanners he knew he was sick and wanted to come here for the best and free treatment.

So no you are flat out wrong. 8 day is plenty of time to make it to any corner of the world from Eastern Congo. Once cases start popping up in Kinshasa every American city is only Paris, UAE(Dubai) and Turkey(Istanbul) away via direct flights to those hubs.


38 posted on 05/21/2026 8:13:02 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: GenXPolymath

Thanks for running the numbers. The obvious solution is nobody from Ebola regions without that 21 day quarantine period. Dual citizenship or not. Frankly I’d keep Africans out period. They tend to ruin countries that take immigrants from there.


40 posted on 05/21/2026 8:31:07 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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