Posted on 10/17/2014 3:50:24 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Is Ebola affecting your travel plans? Or do you think the reaction/fears are excessive? Take our poll below. (Have more to say? Add a comment.)
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Yes, I have made changes. Slowed down on spending as well.
Also, stocking up on supplies a little sooner than usual.
I wouldn’t be flying. I used to fly all the time but now I avoid it. All modes of public transportation especially air travel are just perfect environments for spreading pathogens from all over the world and that is without Ebola.
I didn’t see the ‘Whose got money to travel?’ choice.
Yes it has. I bought some stronger anti bacterial hand soap.
What the heck am I supposed to do? LOL
Traveling by RV instead of a public conveyance is much more healthy!
Yes, I was planning a trip to Liberia because I had heard that the street food was great and that you could sightsee all day in local taxis for next to nothing, but lately that just hasn’t seemed like a good reason to go there.
We aren’t going anywhere. Cancelled Thanksgiving already. Christmas is doubtful. I think things will be much worse by then.
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
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Have a vacation in Europe planned for next year...we’ll see...
Car travel only, otherwise, now.
Actually I’ve just made travel plans — way up in the Cascade mountains.
I am cancelling a trip to Florida. I don’t trust our government to tell us the truth about Ebola . . especially before the upcoming critical election. No way am I trusting my life to airline travel. So, the trip is cancelled.
...prepping was shored up past two weekends. Will increase supplies if things get worse. Obviously I’ll stay ahead of the zombies.
Yes. We fly with our young children early NOV from LIT to BUR via PHO. We are at 30% chance of canceling as of today. I want to see if any airline passengers from nurse 2 comes down with Ebola before we cancel.
That is how we travel, using an Airstream trailer. Even so, notwithstanding the threat of Ebola, we don’t feel as safe traveling as we once did. This year we stayed home, working on our property and painting the house. Next year we might spend a month on our boat.
“Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly.”
Here in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, the ratpack that passes for Senatorial and Congressional delegations are more inclined to import Ebola and its’ carriers in the name of diversity and such.
Many long years ago I spent almost every day flying. I now avoid it like the plague.
Am flying to Austin tomorrow to visit my parents. Also have a trip planned around Christmas, I’m in wait and see mode for that one.
According to local radio news in a CO resort area, Amber Vinson’s plane was taken to the Denver airport and will stay there for the time being.
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