Posted on 10/16/2014 7:56:07 PM PDT by Mariner
he political momentum for a travel ban on West African nations continued to swell Thursday, but health and transportation experts were uniform in saying it wouldn’t stem the spread of Ebola — and could do more harm than good.
That hasn’t stopped politicians and pundits — ranging from House Speaker John Boehner to former Obama press secretary Jay Carney — from calling for a travel ban. The appeal is obvious: It sounds like a no-brainer to build an infectious-disease moat around the U.S., blocking some flights and barring people who come from the countries suffering the worst Ebola outbreaks.
But the reality, the experts say, is that those kinds of measures have failed before. And this time, experts inside and outside the administration warned, throttling travel would hammer already devastated West African countries, make it difficult to send relief where it’s needed, and send an unknown number of infected travelers into the shadows, increasing the difficulty of knowing how many were entering the U.S.
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All their stories on this are transparently BS and they can't see it themselves.
The survivors will deal with these kinds of people before this is over.
Politico shilling as usual
Only in Washington would something like this make sense
Democratico
"Stay at home, get some rest, and come back to school/work when you are feeling better, i.e. you are asymptomatic."
Still people pump themselves full of drugs, go to school/work and get other people sick.
How does a travel ban NOT make perfect sense with all of this past history to go by?
Kool-Aide in print.
Idiots.
There’s dumb and then there’s this.
Go make me a sandwich.
An online poll reported that 75% of doctors favored a travel ban.
I didn’t believe it but I have changed my mind, liberalism is a mental disease.
Especially when the "let anyone with a pulse in" policy is working so well.
This analysis is 100% liberal Bullsh*t !
Of course, why didn’t I see it, it’s so obvious! This must be exactly why laboratorie have such stringent containment procedures for viruses and bacterias.......................oh shit!
Listen you damn losers!!!!
A Travel Ban STOPS EBOLA FROM TRAVELING HERE!!!!
THAT WORKS!!!
What is your damn agenda?????
So...we should be more concerned with other countries and their citizens than our own? Heard this before.
Not a single one of their arguments make any sense.
KATHRYN A. WOLF
A native Texan, Wolfe grew up in the Houston suburb of Pasadena, whose claim to fame is being the subject of the movie “Urban Cowboy.”
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Oh, she was the mechanical bull....
Quarantine travelers in the White House and Capitol building.
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