[Dilbert San Diego]

Well, it’s a B.S. argument.

Of course we can ban travelers from those countries, and at the same time, still send humanitarian aid and people there to help.

There is no reason that a travel ban FROM these places means that we won’t be able to send help TO these places.

We would just have to quarantine aid workers before they return to America, to ensure that they don’t have Ebola themselves.

[Reaganite Republican]

We can’t keep out illegal foreigners EVEN if they’re carrying a plague!

Can’t wait for this Twilight Zone episode of a presidency to end

[kevslisababy]

I just heard that a man from Nigeria arrived at the Detroit Metro Airport this morning and has been quarantined with Ebola.

[erkelly]

Certainly it makes sense to ban travel; no one, absolutely no one, wants to vacation in Africa at this time, but plenty of people in Africa want to leave. Indeed, Americans are far less inclined to want to travel via air at all, anywhere, for fear of encountering Ebola. If the Obama administration were interested in keeping the travel industry prosperous, they would ban flights entirely to and from the affected areas of Africa (other than allowing the military or privately chartered planes to deliver supplies and personnel) so that travelers could fly with some degree of confidence they are not risking contracting a deadly disease in so doing. This administration has no sense whatsoever. (That being said, I think the reason they are doing this is purely political; they want to pretend that Ebola is not a really serious disease and a potentially serious threat until after the election. I think it is working to some degree.)