The article quotes a Republican congressman who raises the possibility of doing that very thing - blocking travel visas. To which Frieden lamely replies that the CDC doesn’t issue visas and he therefore can’t comment. The ladies who wrote the article seem satisfied with this but it sure would be nice if someone in the administration could respond to the sensible idea of simply not issuing visas.
The other argument - that a travel ban would keep aid workers and NGOs from being able to get in and out of the affected countries - apparently boils down to cost. It would force the aid organizations into chartered flights which are expensive. They quote some scary numbers for total cost of a chartered flight but they don’t take the final step of dividing by the number of passengers. When you do that you see that the cost is about ten times more per passenger than a normal commercial flight. That’s more expensive but not crazy more expensive. Surely we could find a way to cover that cost in the interest of saving American lives. We’re probably talking what, a few tens of $millions? That’s not even real money nowadays. Funny how liberals are breaking out the green eyeshades and worrying about cost all the sudden.
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.