Why a travel ban wouldn’t work

he political momentum for a travel ban on West African nations continued to swell Thursday, but health and transportation experts were uniform in saying it wouldn’t stem the spread of Ebola — and could do more harm than good.

That hasn’t stopped politicians and pundits — ranging from House Speaker John Boehner to former Obama press secretary Jay Carney — from calling for a travel ban. The appeal is obvious: It sounds like a no-brainer to build an infectious-disease moat around the U.S., blocking some flights and barring people who come from the countries suffering the worst Ebola outbreaks.

But the reality, the experts say, is that those kinds of measures have failed before. And this time, experts inside and outside the administration warned, throttling travel would hammer already devastated West African countries, make it difficult to send relief where it’s needed, and send an unknown number of infected travelers into the shadows, increasing the difficulty of knowing how many were entering the U.S.

People should STOP talking about stopping flights — it is just being used as a Red Herring by the obama Administration... they just love this false issue.

I say AGAIN ... Stop talking about airplanes and flights...

Start talking about cutting off Visas... because it is doable - and the State Department controls all that via the U.S. Embassies and Consulates in a given country... they control the VISAS... Demands to stop visa issuance should be made to them ...

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obama’ Motivation? obama is doing it to prop up his insistence for open borders and Amnesty... After all you see - if we can close the borders to people from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea - THEN WHY NOT MEXICO and CENTRAL AMERICA .. this is what he fears.

Please spread the word.. stopping flights from the Ebola Countries is not a good answer - it would help but it is much easier to just stop issuing VISAS to the residents of the Ebola stricken countries... That way they cannot do as Mr. Duncan did and fly to Brussels first then on to America.

NO VISA to AMERICA - NO FLY To AMERICA.. if you don’t have a Visa in your passport allowing you entrance into the USA - then you cannot even get on a plane to the USA...

STOP VISAS - much easier ... an order to the U.S. Embassies and Consulates in Africa ... No Visas issued to people holding passports to citizens of Sierra Leone, Guinea or Liberia - and add any other country that develops a Ebola Epidemic. EASY.

If - and it looks good so far - the Dems lose control of the Senate - out Congress could pass legislation banning issuance of Visas to citizens of the Ebola countries - stick that legislation into some big bill that obama cannot afford to veto and we have it ... otherwise starting today - pound Congress to stop issuing Visas...

If we don’t stop Ebola in the U.S. OUR Visas may be banned by other countries who have sense enough to protect themselves.

make it difficult to send relief where it’s needed

That is just BS. Why would stopping flights from Liberia to the US and stopping passports from Liberia to the US in any conceivable way stop relief from getting in to Liberia?

The same logic would say that we should let the infected nurses run free because if we don't we'll not be able to get them any support in the hospital.

So. Obama is lying again.

President Obola is only lying when his lips move. There are two things at work right now. Gross incompetence and a cult like belief in ideology. When the incompetence creates a crisis, he defaults to his ideology, which compounds the problem.

The US is faced with a life and death problem right now. It cannot be argued that allowing people from the hot zone into the US raises the risk of spreading the disease. The opposite is also true, if no one from the hot zone enters the US, there is no risk of disease spread. Am I missing something?

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