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.
because of the continent the effected countries are in. There, I said it.
They could have demanded every day Obama stop people from Ebola countries from coming here. This would have been BOTH the right thing to do AND the politically beneficial thing for them to do.
But no, they're too FRIGGING STUPID!
“The people have had enough.”
“so” “and”
“Fiona Bruce: BBC make-up artists worried about Ebola risk
Fiona Bruce said she would not report from an Ebola-hit country and the BBC could not compel her to do so”
You must be exposed to Ebola, ‘Muricans, because to keep people out from the countries that have Ebola epidemics would be RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!
Blah blah blah
bla blah blah yourself GOPe-tard
It no longer matters one wit what Americans Overwhelmingly Support.... or Don’t Support.
I voted today...
I wrote in Joe Carr for Senate ..iunstead of Lamar Alexander
Ron Ramsey for Gov..instead of Bill Haslam
etc..
I plan to not vote for ANY ONE for Gov. Helps lower the bar to pass Amendment 1.
Mrs has had a thread on this.
Obama doesn’t care. And why should he? The public can get pissed all they want. They won’t do anything about it. A few of them may hold their breaths until they turn as purple as Obama’s lips.
It doesn’t matter what the people want anymore. We have masters who know what is best for us.
Duncan’s nephew or son is whining that Duncan died because his care was poor because he was black. Never mind that citizens of the US paid $2 million trying to save his evil butt and his caregivers were black. Saw a photo of Jesse the Jerk with the guy all chummy.
It’s modern day version of the Plague....just not full blown yet. Beginning to be a prepper issue.
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