Why travel bans will only make the Ebola epidemic worse

VOX ^ | 10/15/2014 | Julia Belluz and Steven Hoffman

[SeekAndFind]

FROM THE ABOVE WEBSITE:

The Ebola virus is extremely rare. Among the leading causes of death in Africa, it only accounts for a tiny fraction. People are much more likely to die from AIDS, respiratory infections, or diarrhea, as you can see.



The current outbreak involves the Zaire strain, which was discovered in 1976 — the year Ebola was first identified in what was then Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). That same year, the virus was also discovered in South Sudan.

Since 1976, there have only been about 20 known Ebola outbreaks. Until last year, the total impact of these outbreaks included 2,357 cases and 1,548 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They all occurred in isolated or remote areas of Africa, and Ebola never had a chance to go very far.

And that's what makes the 2014 outbreak so remarkable: the virus has spread to five countries in Africa plus America, and has already infected more than 8,000 people. It has killed more than 4,000 people. That is more than triple the sum total of all previous outbreaks combined.

[jospehm20]

Idiots.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Closing borders would be a disaster...? BULLCRAP! only for the damn globalists!

[First_Salute]

EBOLA is a major NBC (nuclear, biological, and chemical) continuation of events and must be treated as a war particularly against the B, by every nation.

The USA is very late at getting the logistical theater of operations going along the west coast of Africa. Whether or not “boots are on the ground” as direct attendants of people in need, boots must be on the ground, handling the logistical needs *for* the locals and medical people who are doing the work.

IOW, the locals and medical people *there* at the front lines ... need to look over their shoulders and see a ready supply of fresh water, protective gear, treatment of protective gear, and thoroughly efficient cremation plants -— because no person, nor pet, nor animal, nor associated clothing of EBOLA victims deceased, should go anywhere but straight to these cremation plants.

It’s war, and you have to kill EBOLA before it kills you. EBOLA cannot be left laying around in dead animals, dead people, dead anything - buried, because of “nice thoughts” and “wishful thinking.” BECAUSE, EBOLA comes back from the dead -— which is why we’re having the problem, again. We must arrange things so that EBOLA cannot be dug up, again.

ISIL / ISIS will try to.

[American Constitutionalist]

NO !

Would the radical black liberals, or liberals in general in Congress and the media be in favor of a travel ban of Ebola if ? Ebola came from a mostly white country as England ? Germany ? Or a mostly Asain country as Japan or China ?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ted Cruz advocates military transport for Ebola aid, calls for travel ban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3215596/posts

[First_Salute]

Better than what the Obama Administration has implemented:

1) pigeon hole, ie control, the VISA's

2) establish a clinic in Africa, near an airport, where all outbound - to - the - USA fliers must enter and be processed

3) establish a set route using charter flights only between Africa (that clinic -and- airport) and the USA --- ie, if you want to fly to the USA, and you are from Africa and/or your VISA and/or passport place you as "from Africa" ... you have to adhere to (1), (2), and this, (3) ... or you cannot board the flight to the USA.

[chris37]

Sorry, I don’t believe anything anyone from this country, or pretty much any other country, has to say about this or anything else.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Taking airline panic one step further, another idea floating around these days is to just close off West Africa to the rest of the world. Allow Ebola to fester over there, and keep people safe over here.

That's a complete mischaracterization of any position I've heard.

[Usagi_yo]

Why are they trying to get us to swallow this?

Travel ban, gasoline and matches.

[DoughtyOne]

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[mbarker12474]

1. Screening ebola passengers is of course imperfect. But that is not what is desired. What is desired is a blockade preventing ALL travel. Not mere screen.

This also imperfect, but increases the level of difficulty for passengers making their way to the U.S.

2. Aid and comfort and medical treatment can be sent to West Africa, whether or not the U.S. establishes a blockade of West Africa. It is independent of the blockade.

Whether choosing to do so is proper and wise is another question.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Because we are smarter than you are.

[Adder]

That’s some mighty stupid reasoning, vox.

It will make it worse over there...yeah...better that than worse everywhere.

Determined people will get out. So? They have to show up somewhere: send them back. Look what one infected did here. What happens when we spread the joy around?

The flights part is just dumb. You can’t get supplies in? are you that absolutely stupid? Oh the po’ po’ Dr.s without borders folks...oh worra worra about them!

Effin idiots. I keep running into these arguments and they never make sense.

[FreedomStar3028]

However. They know it has the potential to kill ten times more people, then AIDS has. In a much shorter time period, as well.

If it keeps spreading in Africa, in ten months there will be over a million victims in Africa alone. If it spreads in Europe and America, the graph will look very much the same as the time/infected graphs of West Africa from patient zero to now after ten months.

Just remember that the more people that are infected, the higher the chance becomes that the virus mutates into something much much worse.

Why haven’t we ever seen Ebola spread like this before? All the other outbreaks were fairly small. However this strain seems to infect those wearing heavy protective gear. We have had 40 years to study this virus. In all that time we have either gone backwards in our knowledge of this virus, or it has mutated. If the latter is true, then everything they are telling us is wrong, and it is much worse than we imagine.

[mbarker12474]

>Would the radical black liberals, or liberals in general in Congress and the media be in favor of a travel ban of Ebola if ? Ebola came from a mostly white country as England ? Germany ? Or a mostly Asain country as Japan or China ?

Or Tel Aviv?

[ThomasMore]

” only for the damn globalists!”

EXACTLY. George Soros funded idiots.

[AAABEST]

Anyone and everyone with the slightest degree of common sense understands that keeping people who have Ebola out of the community reduces the risk of Ebola.

It's not hard to understand or implement; we can do it by simply flagging or not issuing visas with virtually no disruption to travel in or out of any country by essential personnel.

The main reason we're seeing articles like this is because they're written by compromised Obola automatons.

[Dr. Thorne]

I assume you are aware that VOX is BS.