What am I missing?
Granted we can’t completely seal off a part of the world. But, isolating a disease as much as we can, is one key way of stopping the spread of disease. What am I missing?
And why are so many liberals parroting the line that a travel ban makes it harder to fight Ebola in Africa???? How do liberals view this subject? What are the liberal talking points???
We wouldn't want any precedent setting action keeping immigrants out would we.
If we stop immigration from West Africa, then later if/when ebola does make it to Central America….well you can figure the rest out.
You are not missing anything. We are bringing in 150 people a day who may be incubating and the numbers will increase along with the percentage that are incubating the virus.
However, "sealing off" is a red herring, don't fall for it. Nobody seriously suggests sealing off part of Africa as a way of fighting the virus. They have border and regional controls all over Africa to control the spread, but nowhere is it "sealed off". They tried that in West Point and it was pointless The people in West Point are still alive and kicking, they were more careful around infected people and kept from being infected. They always need to find and extract infected people before they get too bad, and there is a shortage of treatment facilities. But that is a fixable problem.
We have created a major problem by issuing 13,000 or more visas to potentially infected people. Those need to be retracted, then let people fly in provided they go to an Ellis Island type quarantine center for a few weeks. If they are healthy at that point they can travel within the US. But 150 a day potentially incubating with no symptoms is an unacceptable risk to Americans