Posted on 10/15/2014 7:59:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Obama administration is still refusing to issue travel restrictions from Ebola stricken countries in West Africa to the United States, arguing that isolating those regions could make the problem worse. But a new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows the vast majority of Americans from both sides of the political aisle want entry restrictions put into place.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they are concerned about an Ebola outbreak in the United States, and about the same amount say they want flight restrictions from the countries in West Africa where the disease has quickly spread.
A new poll from the Washington Post and ABC News shows 67 percent of people say they would support restricting entry to the United States from countries struggling with Ebola. Another 91 percent would like to see stricter screening procedures at U.S. airports in response to the disease’s spread.
Many countries in Europe and neighboring countries to the Ebola crisis in Africa have implemented flight restrictions and some have shut down borders completely.
Last week CDC Director Thomas Frieden wrote an op-ed defending the administration's decision not to implement flight restrictions in order to fight the Ebola outbreak and to prevent the deadly disease from spreading inside the United States.
A travel ban is not the right answer. It’s simply not feasible to build a wall – virtual or real – around a community, city, or country. A travel ban would essentially quarantine the more than 22 million people that make up the combined populations of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.
When a wildfire breaks out we don't fence it off. We go in to extinguish it before one of the random sparks sets off another outbreak somewhere else.
We don't want to isolate parts of the world, or people who aren't sick, because that's going to drive patients with Ebola underground, making it infinitely more difficult to address the outbreak.
It could even cause these countries to stop working with the international community as they refuse to report cases because they fear the consequences of a border closing.
Stopping planes from flying from West Africa would severely limit the ability of Americans to return to the United States or of people with dual citizenship to get home, wherever that may be.
In addition to not stopping the spread of Ebola, isolating countries will make it harder to respond to Ebola, creating an even greater humanitarian and health care emergency.
As a side note, Frieden needs to look up the definition of a "fire-break."
There are three cases of Ebola in the United States. Thomas Eric Duncan was the first to bring back the disease from Africa and transmitted it to two healthcare workers at a Dallas hospital before passing away more than a week ago.
This is just common sense. I can’t believe our government did not restrict travel to our country from people who have been in West Africa.
Travel restrictions will eventually happen, it is just a matter of time. When this this starts to spread all over they will have no choice. Lets hope we can minimize the death toll before our government gets their head out of their asses
Prevent AIDS - Keep your fly closed.
Prevent Ebola - Close anything that flies.
I don’t know, I am not the smartest guy around; but don’t people have to have Visa’s to enter our country? The first order of business would be to restrict, delay, or cancel all Visa’s from West African countries. I also think we should move a lot of the foreign aid we give to countries that do not like us (middle east) or who waste our money through corruption (Haiti, and just about everyone else) and give it to the West African countries to close their borders so they can contain and eliminate the virus. Would take a couple of months but at least it will not be here...
I agree 100% that a ban starting back in the West African country of origin would help a whole lot..
Unfortunately that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave would not sign a bill for it. You can count on it
You don’t expect the king or emperor to hold his own umbrella, or do you?
This mantra that flight restrictions would make things worse is not plausible. Ebola has a incubation period lasting 21 days... Anybody flying from any of the afflicted countries should be tested for a minimum of 25 days before they are allowed to exit the borders, whether by air or land. That would have been the proper quarantine time, but the cat is out of the bag now and they’ve hemmed and hawed too long to reverse themselves. They’re like a child who refuses to admit that they are wrong, even thought they know they are.
yet only 26 politicians came forward and supported the idea.
Only 26 out of hundreds of our “respresentatives” have bothered to represent the opinion of a clear majority of the electorate.
What happened to representative democracy?
Wasn’t Duncan a Liberian citizen from Liberia who came to Dallas, for a visit? At least that is what I understood
After the killers in the democrat party are thrown out we can change the laws and abolish the CDC. We can hire trained monkeys to say, “Eat healthy - exercise more ’... wear a condomn'... which is about all the CDC does - other than support blowhards in liberal elite style..
They didn't want 0bamacare; they don't want "gay" "marriage"; they don't want Ebola. Our Politburo knows what's good for us.
CDC director defends Ebola response: 'Our information is clear and correct'
BTTT
The rats wouldn't have had a chance to take the majority of the Congress (the Senate and House of Representavies) if the idiots on our side didn't set on their butts or voted third party to punish the GOP during the 2006 election.
0bama won’t stop flights. Will the public realize that 0 is acting against their interest?
We need to quit calling it the Ebola epidemic or the HN whatever the hell it is killing kids all over America, and start calling with EVERY thread, political speech and news article “The Democrats Biological Warfare on America”. Please help.
Thanks Kaslin... glad you liked it.
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