Posted on 10/05/2014 12:35:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
I never thought I’d find myself agreeing with Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal. But this week, Governor Jindal called for a ban on air travel to the U.S. from the countries where the epidemic is present. He’s right: a flight ban is the best way to keep Ebola from spreading.
In the world of infectious diseases, we often hear the phrase that the next epidemic is “one flight away” from the U.S. That’s true—but we don’t usually know where that flight will originate, so we can’t simply ban all flights to the U.S. from everywhere. With Ebola, though, we know the source: the epidemic is confined to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.
As the Ebola crisis has grown in West Africa, the need to stop its spread has grown ever more urgent. The number of cases is now over 20,000, and the CDC estimates that by January, Liberia and Sierra Leone will have 1.4 million people with Ebola infections. These are frightening numbers.
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There is a 100% chance that it won’t help if it isn’t done isn’t there?
Certainly seems reasonable to use as a tool to manage down risk to me.
Of course I’m not brilliant enough to say since I don’t work for the gooberment. Idiots.
What an ugly sentiment!
AGREE!
How To Stop Ebola: BAN OBAMA.
The ONLY reason Ebola is now permanently loose in America is because the Obama regime allowed it to happen. You can't blame this on Bush and the Republicans.
The CDC is playing immigration politics. There is no way they’d say what they really think if what they really think might get them fired or result in a funding cut...or an IRS audit. The problem is not with our medical community. It’s with President Obama and his thugs.
The annoying thing here is, if there is a pandemic, none of our elected leaders will suffer so much as a sniffle. It will be the bitter clingers in flyover country who suffer and die.
Yep.
Well it’s not hard when your government niw has less sense of caution than NASA did in 1969.
AND ... ARREST OBOLA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION.
but but but if we ban flights from those countries .....that might hurt their widdo feewings...............
One case from transmission in Dallas and this country goes bonkers. I am convinced the CDC is lying. I am also convinced they will try desperately to move the next case to somewhere out side of Dallas so you cant make that connection. THey are lying to protect their regime and President Obola. I predict hell breaks lose. Stand by. It is so sad they didn’t stop the immigration and travel from West Africa.
Add Uganda to the list, they have confirmed cases of Marburg now. Ebolas cousin-another hemmorgic fever per Drudge.
The economy will crash
Everyone will be infected/
could states governors declare bans of passengers from these countries, must ban passengers from those countries no matter where they fly from in europe or asia?
Time for states to become proactive?
Hopefully when you say arrest his administration it includes even the underlings like his spokespeople Josh Earnest, Marie Knarf, Samantha Powers, Jen Psaki as well as that Friedtart liar CDC director Thomas Frieden.
As did Saudi Arabia....they banned anyone from those countries from participating in the Haaj.
Sad when Saudi Arabia makes more sense than our corrupt govt.
They may not blame Bush, but they already are blaming Republicans.
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