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How To Stop Ebola: Ban Air Travel From Liberia, Sierra Leone, And Guinea
Forbes ^ | October 5, 2014 | by Steven Salzberg

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: ebola; ebolaairline; ebolaoutbreak; ebolatravel; jindal
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To: Smokin' Joe

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?
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LOL. Right on. Excellent retort.


41 posted on 10/05/2014 2:45:41 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Gritty

Yep....the airlines need to simply refuse to board nationals from the hot spots and not issue any visas either.

So easy. So easy. And that is why many of us are so angry.


42 posted on 10/05/2014 2:49:36 PM PDT by SteveAustin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lock down those countries like our ‘authorities’ lock down our schools here in similar manner to US prisons. If it is good enough for us, why not them?


43 posted on 10/05/2014 2:49:48 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Baynative

“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?”

Explain what you mean with a source...


44 posted on 10/05/2014 2:59:16 PM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: Jim Noble

I am impressed that you have seen that bigger picture so starkly, well said. (No sarcasm here, it’s a compliment, since we seem to live in a world where sarcasm is the default mode)


45 posted on 10/05/2014 3:26:03 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: babygene

A black teller at wallmart...was wearing gloves...I asked her why?...she said her family in africa told her to...not handle money....at all...

Thats good enough for me....Its not that hard to go cashless......Its not that hard to clean hands after touching public things....Thats what Im going to do.

I dont think gloves are a good answer though...because...eventually I would rub my eyes or something...

Oh well


46 posted on 10/05/2014 3:31:33 PM PDT by therapsida (tThats a group now?)
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To: DoodleDawg
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.

Finally, somebody gets it. But ultimately it would be the privately owned airlines agreeing to do this themselves-- in the US the FAA could do this, but that is not the case in every country. Can the airlines stay in business if they are pressured into dumping all these routes? What about cargo flights-- knowing that people will be trying to sneak out that way given the corruption there? If you block that you start new problems. More importantly, what happens when the people who can't fly out then begin leaving by the only means left to them-- by foot, boat and car-- to infect neighboring countries not currently affected and spreading the epidemic? Then begin flying out from those countries? Do we then ask the airlines to stop flying there too?

47 posted on 10/05/2014 3:42:15 PM PDT by LambSlave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"How To Stop Ebola: Ban Air Travel From Liberia, Sierra Leone, And Guinea"

Nah. Our leaders should continue in their vanities and desires to keep the recirculating debt machine, booze and oil flowing with their world centralized production schemes and rule. [Little irony there.]


48 posted on 10/05/2014 3:50:10 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Gritty

It only makes sense to thoroughly check Boarding records & passport stamps on all International flights into the U.S. for any stops in the Ebola-stricken countries within the last month (or more).

It also makes absolutely no sense to overly restrict departing flights to the affected countries – that’s not the direction that’s a concern. No reasonable person is proposing that we withhold humanitarian aid from these people...


49 posted on 10/05/2014 3:59:27 PM PDT by mikrofon (NO'bola)
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To: babygene
I've heard two different news reports that what we are seeing is actually Marberg Virus. I have heard two doctors with Ebola experience say that Ebola literally melts internal organs and bones within 48 hours and there is no recovery. One who was working in Africa in the outbreak in the late 70s said their only strategy to contain spread was to quarantine entire villages and let everyone die.
50 posted on 10/05/2014 4:05:35 PM PDT by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All flights from the 4 worst hit countries should already have been suspended and nobody from those countries allowed in for any reason until further notice.


51 posted on 10/05/2014 4:34:16 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I have called United Airlines and told them I will never book a flight with them again. To tell the truth it has been years the last time I was on one of there birds. That 747-400 was the dirtiest plain I ever worked on. The over all maintenance was poor and it was in so poor condition that Boeing push it over too Goodyear. I heard latter it was cobbled together and sent to Arizona's airliner grave yard.
52 posted on 10/05/2014 5:19:18 PM PDT by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!.)
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To: lostboy61

Here’s what I posted on another thread, about my contacting United over this....

I contacted United and asked if they were going to stop flights to/from these Ebola affected African countries.

The agent was extremely rude and said “let me see what our restrictions are, at this time”. He proceeded to shuffle through papers and mumbled something about “no, only restrictions, or warnings, we currently have are in Cabo (Mexico) and, blah...blah”.

I asked, again, if there was a policy regarding Ebola, specifically...and why they weren’t stopping these flights. He said that “the government won’t allow them to stop these flights” and that their “policy” was to refer anyone with additional questions to the CDC.

I cancelled our upcoming United flights.


53 posted on 10/05/2014 5:22:58 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I’m not arguing that we should “seal ourselves off from the world.” (Nor, I suspect, is Governor Jindal.) We are arguing to seal off just three small countries in West Africa, until the epidemic passes.

Airlines need to do this if the CDC won't....

54 posted on 10/05/2014 5:23:35 PM PDT by GOPJ ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert Camus)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Add the Congo to the Ban List. They may be in East Africa, but they currently have Marburg, and it’s worse than Ebola.


55 posted on 10/05/2014 5:33:52 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Bomb ISIS; bomb them again; bomb them again; kill all survivors; take no prisoners.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Has anyone other than bobby jindal called for a ban on ebola flights, cause I haven’t heard it.

WHERE THE HELL ARE THE REPUBLICANS?


56 posted on 10/05/2014 5:42:43 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Where we're headed is worse than mere socialism http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-tyranny)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Buried deep in the article:

CDC Director Frieden also revealed yesterday that in the month of September, screening at airports in African countries has turned away 77 people who had signs of possible Ebola infection, including 17 in the month of September. Although Frieden used this example to illustrate the effectiveness of CDC’s screening program, it also shows that sick people are trying to board planes to the U.S. As the outbreak grows, it will grow increasingly difficult to keep all Ebola-infected passengers—who don’t show signs of infection for several days—off those planes.

57 posted on 10/05/2014 6:11:48 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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