Posted on 10/11/2014 2:10:15 PM PDT by opentalk
(CNSNews.com) - Both Homeland Security Secretary Secretary Jeh Johnson and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden said on Wednesday that 150 people a day arrive in the United States from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea, the three West African countries that have been hit by the Ebola virus.
..."The number of travelers is relatively small. We're talking about 150 per day," Frieden told a news conference on Wednesday. He announced that questionnaires and temperature checks will begin at five major U.S. airports that handle "95 percent of all the 150 travelers per day who arrive from these three countries"
One hundred-fifty passengers a day from West Africa works out to more than a thousand a week (1,050), 4,500 a month, and 54,750 a year
Given the 21-day incubation period for Ebola and the 150 people coming in each day, that means that at any given time there could be 21 x 150 people in the U.S. who could be asymptomatically incubating Ebola, and who are free to wander around the country.
...All passengers flying out of West African countries already undergo temperatures checks and answer questions about their contact with Ebola patients, but the screening doesn't always work, as the case of Thomas Eric Duncan proves
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STFW
Only one person had died and he had it when he got here
Are we supposed to be proud about this or what? What about “the children” and “the grandchildren”?
Just a matter of grouping them. I'm sure it can be done.
“Are we supposed to be proud about this or what? What about “the children” and “the grandchildren”?’
Liberals are proud of how tolerant we are for not closing the border to them so they can spread the virus willy nilly throughout America!
Strict refusal to take any action that may be construed as tightening entry requirements is now an entirely illogical impulse by the authorities and politicians on both sides of the aisle.
The best thing to do is not grant any travel visas to them until this situation is over.
Yes, they should be flown to Dulles and examined in the senate cloak room.
This is a travesty.
No commercial travel from those countries period. I bet over 90% of Americans agree. The cdc are liars. They think you can’t get ebola from casual contact, then come on in hazmats suits onto a plane. Barbra Streisand.
Aye.
Can someone please explain to me what the big deal is about closing the borders to people from about four or five nations in Africa?
You’d think the oceans would empty, the sky would fall, the fresh water on earth would disappear...
I mean seriously folks. Just stop travel to and from for a few months, or until this is brought under control.
What’s the big deal?
Actually, that seems like a really good idea.
Only per DAY? Oh I feel safe already. I was reading yesterday they said the cases double every month which is exponential. Every month which will get shorter as the amount of cases rise, so one day you may have 4000, a month later 8000 then when it gets to 100,000 the next week will be 200,000 then 3 days later 400,000 then a day later a million then weeeeeeeeeeee away we go, it’s all over the place.
Another Ebola Risk: It Eats Logic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3213910/posts
Quote from the article:
‘MD: So because of concern over the fragile economies of West African nations, or the slight that we may inflict to thousands of people who pose no risk— because of those, we need to say, “Hey, just in from Monrovia? Come on in!” ‘
I’ll explain it to you: We have a radical Muslim as POTUS who wants it here. Simple.
That’s one too many.
Thousands have been horrified by being on a plane with a sick person knowing there are insufficient controls and travel restrictions. Healthcare workers waiting anxiously to know if they have been exposed to exbola by the latest traveler to visit their clinic.
The price is too high. Restrict travel from those regions now. And get them sufficient aid, supplies, food and hospital beds to fight it in Africa not here.
That’s one too many.
Thousands have been horrified by being on a plane with a sick person knowing there are insufficient controls and travel restrictions. Healthcare workers waiting anxiously to know if they have been exposed to exbola by the latest traveler to visit their clinic.
The price is too high. Restrict travel from those regions now. And get them sufficient aid, supplies, food and hospital beds to fight it in Africa not here.
I hear ya. It seems he wants to make it clear that Africa isn’t the only hell-hole these diseases crawl out of to infect the rest of the world. Why not just infect the U. S., and end the onus on Africa?
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