[jjsheridan5]

All these morons calling for flight bans don't have a clue. Duncan didn't arrive on a flight from Liberia. He arrived on a flight from Brussels!

As one of the "morons" who has called for a flight ban, I will point out that I was referring to banning people flying in, directly or indirectly, from a country known to have an active Ebola outbreak. I never thought, for one moment, that anyone could be so thick that this would have to be spelled out for them. I suspect that most calling for "flight bans" are similarly overestimating the ability of some people to apply common sense. I wouldn't call them "morons" however -- merely naive about the lack of astuteness in some readers.

[cynwoody]

Well, there is at least one state governor who used the the "flights" short-hand, who I would support for 2016. But I nevertheless cringed when he said it.

After all, precision is important.

Is Russia visible from your house? Or from your state? (OK — not her, but you get the idea).