[Jim Noble]

I’m not sure he consciously plotted to let Ebola in, but I certainly think Obama may had had the feeling that it wasn’t “fair” that it was restricted to Africa and that the US had to risk it too out of a kind of bizarre solidarity. Refusing to restrict travel is just another demonstration of this.

Maybe he listens to this guy:

Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., PhD in JAMA, 1 October 2014. p. 1297: "...there are obligations of global justice to combat Ebola and strengthen health systems and infrastructure in affected countries in the longer term. Advocates of so-called cosmopolitanism - a key position in the philosophical debate about global justice - argue that national borders have no significance and that all people, regardless of where they live, are entitled to the same education, health care services, and other social resources..."

[livius]

Good find.