I completely agree.
This is becoming a big crisis, yet the administration continues to push this “open borders” crap.
Republicans, push back.
kenyan would-be dictator in the white hut == the reason why nothing has been done to stop this african threat.
Obama needs the flights from Africa loaded with ebola in order to complete his “Fundamental Transformation” of the US.
Let’s face facts - the disease ridden illegals streaming across the southern border just didn’t get the job done as planned.
Because the PC crowd will accuse us of being ANTI-AFRICAN. Besides that, why should we consider ourselves immune from every diseases? It’s like the SHARE THE WEALTH attitude, except it’s a disease this time.
The Dallas Ebola-guy flew to Europe before flying to America.
Stopping direct flights won’t solve the problem.
Because it’s Africa and the carriers are generally black.
If this was some dread disease from Germany, Obama would have closed the border six months ago.
If it was coming from Israel, he would have nuked Israel from orbit.
interesting that Washington Post readers tend to be lefties, and most of the comments on the article seem to agree it’s insane not to stop flights from these countries.
Possible charges of racism?
A policy by all airlines to stop flights out of Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia is the one way to effectively control this. Putting a freeze on all visas for residents of these countries would not work, since many (like Duncan) are not natives of these countries, they are just working or visiting.
WHY?
Because “we the people” have failed to perform our constitutional duty, to overthrow our incompetent, thoroughly corrupt, criminal government.
Everything we suffer, is due to our own failure.
“Earnest argued that because people carrying Ebola don’t have symptoms when they get on planes, there isn’t a need to limit travel.”
WTF? Is this guy insane? Wouldn’t this fact argue greatly in FAVOR of limiting travel? I mean if you can’t tell the infected by inspection then don’t you put a ban on all such travel as the onlyalternativenitive? How in the world could someone say something this stupid and not get called on it?
To his credit, 0bama is thinking about closing train stations to passengers originating in Africa.
This writer doesn’t think there should be restrictions. Quarantine has always worked, but Obama wants to show solidarity with Africans by embracing the killer disease. Any government that desires to protect its population would have quarantined, completely, do whatever it takes, to protect its population three months ago. What is the government’s plan, for example, when a ebola carrier drives across the country, stopping along the way, continues on his trip. He would leave a swath of death in his wake. I noticed this morning that even primitive African countries are stopping travelers.
“O” wants to be ‘PC’ even if it KILLS US!!
The $300,000,000 question....
Here's your answer:
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..."
obama believes in social justice. We are not special. /s