[pepsionice]

So you close off the airports in Liberia for example. Folks got frustrated at this treatment...so they take a bus over to Togo, and fly out there to Morocco, then onto Madrid, and then onto Miami. Figure a two-day ride on a bus...sit around at the Lome airport for eight hours for the flight, and you can be in Miami area within five days.

You basically would have to close off the whole of central Africa, and I doubt if this would really work. The only alternate and reasonable deal is a holding pattern at US airports and stall folks for a number of days in some quarantine situation. Folks would get hostile over a cot and some bowl-of-soup situation with guards at the doors holding you in some marginal camp situation.

[Wingy]

I'm sorry. I must not be explaining it well enough. If you stop all passport holders from Ebola hotspots from traveling to the US, it wouldn't matter how many circuitous flights/bus rides/horse drawn carriage one took. It only matters where you are from.

Of course Delta would bitch, but that's life in the airline biz.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

“So you close off the airports in Liberia for example. Folks got frustrated at this treatment...so they take a bus over to Togo, and fly out there to Morocco, then onto Madrid, and then onto Miami. Figure a two-day ride on a bus...sit around at the Lome airport for eight hours for the flight, and you can be in Miami area within five days.”

Each delay allows the symptoms ...

... to be ...

... MORE ... OBVIOUS.

[Chgogal]

Britain and France have a large African populations. Funny how there has not been an imported case of Ebola. Oh, that's right! They banned commercial flights.