Posted on 10/25/2014 5:12:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
At present trajectory, CDC estimates that the number infected by January will be 1.5 million. That is not a few.
Thank you for your continued spamming of these Obola threads currentDUmom. As if none of us know the definition of quarantine. If you can GOOGLE maybe you could look up Websters and learn. While you are at it make sure to add my name to Obolas Truth list.
When someone visits a country, they stamp your passport. If an American visits an Ebola country, it will be on their passport.
Tara Smith has stopped ebola before. She knows.
Source?
Where were their passports from, then?
Despite her impressive credentials, Dr. Smith is wrong. Banning travel is an effective common sense measure when part of an array of measures. Those measures have been known and refined for centuries.
So how is it that Dr. Smith, a respected epidemiologist, repudiates a valid public health tool? From her article a telling word emerges in this phrase; "...and unfairly ensnare anyone from the affected countries..."
The concept of "fair" has no place in public health. It is only legitimate in organized sporting events. Outside of that the concept of fairness is abused by children and liberals.
Adults deal with right and wrong. And it is right for a country to protect its public health. It is right to do so with travel bans.
Time for Dr. Smith to look outside of her ivory tower into the real world.
Exactly. Because Obama is all about politics, he makes everything a binary choice in terms of good/bad outcomes for him.
He’s got CDC types and the flaming idiot author of this article doing the same.
Exactly. Because Obama is all about politics, he makes everything a binary choice in terms of good/bad outcomes for him.
He’s got CDC types and the flaming idiot author of this article doing the same.
Any country that allows flights out of those countries is also run be crazy people, by the way.
You don't fight this thing with one tool. You use them all.
Three are Americans: the first two cases of the doctor and the nurse they flew in from Africa for treatment and now the doctor in New York. And then there was a news cameraman they brought back for treatment. I don’t remember where he was from but he wasn’t from the U.S. or Africa. The only one who came in on an African passport was the only one who died.
It’s why the term ‘leper colony’ has been around for centuries. It worked.
But can you tell that to self-regarding technocrats?
You fight an epidemic by ISOLATING IT to the best of your ability AND fighting it where it IS.
ANYTHING LESS is INSANITY.
Doesn’t matter. Even if a passport isn’t from the countries in question, they are stamped if they’ve been there.
There’s no way that custom officials did not know that all of those folks had been in the hot zone.
Therefore there is no excuse.
A legal traveler visiting Sierra Leone would have a visa & entry/exit stamps on their passport no matter where they came from.
passport is simply shorthand for a review of that document for if, where, and when it had been stamped by an infected country.
In view of the potential pandemic and incubation period it is only reasonable to take any and all steps to limit the risk to our own citizens.
Which brings me to the current reports of a medical worker whining about being isolated by NJ upon return from W. Africa: seems she feels all righteous about tending to ignorant tribes elsewhere but has no concern for her own countrymen. (No, "tribe" isn't racist and "countrymen" isn't sexist. "Savages" would apply but invite misrepresentation and "countrypersons" sounds dumb.)
I read that Nigeria stopped an outbreak of Ebola. How did they do it?
The purpose of a travel ban is not absolute security, but to significantly reduce the threat. If people from these nations have a profound need to come to the US, as a minimum they must be willing to stay in a quarantine area for an entire month.
This is similar to the way things have been done for hundreds of years now. We regularly do it for animals, and while it is a hassle, it is far better than epidemic.
Opening the borders and letting the infected run all over Lagos. Duh.
Try taking a vacation to Israel with a US passport, then flying from there on to Saudi Arabia.
Visas and Entry/Exit stamps matter, too.
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