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.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Prehistoric man found that by constructing a shelter overhead one could keep things dry during a rainstorm. Obola is not aware of this simple concept.
Stop depending on government.
Call the airlines directly and tell them people are seeing them as criminally negligent in letting flights continue.
If that was the number they told you...wouldn't you do everything you could to get out of Dodge?
Yes. Hint darkly of the potential for lawsuits galore.
Banning the few direct flights from the U.S. to that area isn't going to stop it. The only way that's going to work is if the whole world bans travel with those countries. The Dallas Ebola patient arrived from Liberia to the U.S. via Belgium.
Unfortunately, we ain’t seen nuttin yet. Just wait until flu season hits to see what a completely paralyzed nation that battens down the barricades REALLY looks like as millions have symptoms that are much like how Ebola starts off! The trenches of our medical system are woefully unprepared for something like this. And thank you, President Obola for your “fundamental transformation” when flu season hits! Oh, and PLEASE let’s keep those West African shuttles flying back and forth, since obviously it would do no good anyway with your open borders policy. Oh, and everyone? Be sure to vote a straight Democrat ticket in November: they really DO care about you folks, ya’ll hear? After all:
“Now, I am not on the ballot this fall,” Obama stressed. “... But make no mistake: My policies are on the ballot — every single one of them.” (Including unrestricted West African air flights.)
Barack Hussein Obama, October 2, 2014, Northwestern University
The risk management makes sense, but I wonder if anyone is alert to the fact that many experts say we aren’t dealing with Ebola?
What the US needs cannot (probably) be enacted
Have you traveled overseas? The US is so so very much cleaner than all the filthy places. We separate cooking from eliminating and showering. We constantly wash everything. Ebola won’t have a chance here.
Not everyone in the US live in your bubble. Especially if they are immigrants living in these “ethnic communities.” Old ways die hard.
1. What about the hordes of refugees and illegals all over the country? They bring with them their health and sanitation practices from their homelands.
2. Children in over-crowded classrooms with poor ventilation, almost impossible to keep from sharing things.
3. There's going to be more than one disease to deal with...flu, the Entero virus that's new and exciting, and possibly Ebola. What's going to happen when some people get more than one of them at the same time?
Our best hope is that Ebola is a disease that's based on the climate where it thrives, and won't be deadly in most of the US.
There is no reason not to ban flights from these areas AND prohibit admission to the US by anyone, including US citizens who have been in the Ebola stricken areas. US citizens may be admitted after a period of quarantine.
Well duh, but pundits keep writing stupid editorials that only conservative read whereas, 0bola’s agenda does not align with doing the right thing, in fact, it aligns with EVIL.
“Lock down the borders”
One of the things about the Left is that they are very good at concealment.
They have been building a borderless world for 50+ years. Ebola makes them choose, and they have made their choice.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Ban all passport and visa holders from those Ebola countries unless they undergo a strict, monitored 21 day quarantine at a reliable medical facility - which they pay for.
That alone would have stopped him. Letting him through because he was asymptotic at the time did not.
I'll bet $100 we require the troops we are putting on the ground in Liberia are going to go through a quarantine before they are released back in the States.
There are workarounds for that, just stop issuing visas.
As I posted on an earlier thread,
Travel TO West Africa should not be banned.
Hello, common sense.
“The only way we’re going to get to zero risk is by stopping the outbreak at the source” in West Africa, Frieden said.
Like a said, Hello common sense.
One other thing: since it's likely other countries are going to have an outbreak of Ebola, allow me to remove the words, "West African" from the above post.
Well, the officials assured us Ebola would never come here.
Then they assured us if it did they could handle it.
They have assured us there is nothing to worry about...
Three at bats, and their average hasn't improved...but why would anyone doubt them?
HIV and EBOLA: How Political Correctness Will Get You Killed!
The ongoing – and expanding –Ebola situation and how it’s being handled (or, more accurately, NOT being handled) has a parallel with the HIV panic of a number of years ago.
It may ALSO be another manifestation of the schizophrenic nature of the hard leftists who unfortunately sit at the levers of power in this country and whose double-mindedness should now be clear to all but the dullest among us.
Allow me to explain.
A San Francisco (where else?) based and HIV infected “leader”of the homosexual community began a serious campaign encouraging fellow HIV carriers to attempt to bypass or defeat the donor screening process and actively donate into the national blood supply. When pressed as to his justification for jeopardizing the entire nation, he declared that if HIV spread out into the “straight” community, it would almost certainly catalyze and accelerate the search for a vaccine.
Am I the only “conspiracy buff” to see the similarities between that and what’s going on today vis-a-vis Ebola?
I hadn’t thought about this angle until I heard Rush recently ranting about some author who’d written that because Liberia was founded by former slaves who returned to Africa, it was our unfortunate institution of slavery that is directly responsible for Ebola in the western nations of Africa. (Please note that I stop FAR short of the recent utterances of Calypso Louie Farrakan who claims that Ebola was created by evil white men to kill blacks!)
But I digress. That reasoning that America is responsible for Ebola – if it can be called “reasoning” – holds that it is America’s place to come to their rescue with a “cure”. And how better to “catalyze and accelerate” that process than to INFECT as many native born Americans HERE with the disease as possible?
Now here’s where the schizophrenia comes into the picture:
There is a growing group of folks who believe that the earth cannot support the current population approaching 7.3 billion. The bulk of them are in the same leftist camp as those now directing the present halfhearted “effort” against Ebola. Many of them are one and the SAME people directing the Ebola thing! The most radical of them embrace the words of a speaker at an early green movement/save-the-earth rally in California. Odd coincidence that, aye? He declared that “Man is the ultimate DISEASE of nature.” He got a standing O for that line!
From that meeting and others still being conducted, the greenies now believe that the 7.3 billion MUST be reduced to around 1 billion or less. And which members of which nations, ethnic groups or races are “eliminated” is irrelevant – so long as THEY are excluded!
Scriptures informs us that “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” The writer must have known a fair number of the leftists of his day.
Back to my question.
If, on one hand, the leftists are sincere in their effort to SAVE THE EARTH from overpopulation, why would they attempt to save the victims of Ebola and allow them to come here?
Could it be that allowing them to come here with the disease (and sending 3,000 potential military carriers THERE to bring it back with them) while portraying these actions to the noinfo masses as the compassionate thing to do is part of the same scheme attempted earlier by the HIV crowd?
I suggest that we prepare ourselves for the spread of the this 60% to 90% fatal disease among the population of this nation. (This may have been the reason for the Homeland Security “drills” about some “zombie apocalypse”.) This IS, after all, the same America that is hated by Obama and the One World leftists now in control here as the source of every evil committed in the rest of the world and for which evils it must be properly punished?
Do I really think these miscreants – living in their sanitized and safe gated “compounds” — would do that?
After witnessing 6 years of this gang’s criminal behavior, I absolutely think that!
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