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You may want to do the math to determine the high end of the range of the odds, given a sample of three out of three hundred million. Even if all three die, that still leaves 99.9% success within the confidence interval. DC at the Ridge was not speaking from the standpoint of the inadequate data available on which to base a conclusion (which seems to be how you arrived at your reply), but rather was speaking from the standpoint of the most reliable basis for such assertions - an understanding of our health systems capabilities and the nature of the disease.
If they are from one of the West African countries affected by Ebola, they wouldn't be arriving in the United States from Africa. They would be connecting through other airports. And as NUMBING as it may seem, the United States does not have the authority to order other countries to stop flying to the affected nations.
We can refuse entry to those that have Passports that originate in those countries.
SOUTHCOM is calling for some kind of plan to deal with a potentail Ebola outbreak in Central America... Can you imagine the panicked stampede of sick people coming accross our southern boarder if that happens?
We can refuse entry to those that have Passports that originate in those countries.
And do what with them? Once they are here, they are here. Do you want to put them in quarantine? Where is your quarantine going to be? In every city with an international airport? Or are you going to put your suspected Ebola virus carrier on another plane with the unsuspecting people on that plane and send them off to another country to be that country's problem? That sounds real responsible.
We can't compel these West African nations to close their borders. They are sovereign nations. We can't compel the airlines serving these countries to simply stop. They aren't American airlines. These are the practical things that policy-makers have to think about. They don't have the luxury of making knee-jerk policies and pretending that there are no consequences.
And do what with them? Once they are here, they are here. Do you want to put them in quarantine? Where is your quarantine going to be? In every city with an international airport? Or are you going to put your suspected Ebola virus carrier on another plane with the unsuspecting people on that plane and send them off to another country to be that country's problem? That sounds real responsible.
We can't compel these West African nations to close their borders. They are sovereign nations. We can't compel the airlines serving these countries to simply stop. They aren't American airlines. These are the practical things that policy-makers have to think about. They don't have the luxury of making knee-jerk policies and pretending that there are no consequences.
Refuse to let them disembark from the aircraft and the countries they are coming in from
won't bring them knowing that.
If they are from one of the West African countries affected by Ebola, they wouldn't be arriving in the United States from Africa. They would be connecting through other airports. And as NUMBING as it may seem, the United States does not have the authority to order other countries to stop flying to the affected nations.
Your not quite as bright as you make yourself out to be are you.
You deluding yourself if you think protocols don't exist to stop all passangers on commercial flights entering the US from a specific country
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