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But they won't do that. Too bad for us. The only ones allowed back in should be AMERICANS only that need treatment.
What about the French diplomat that flew to Liberia to handle financing for Medicins Sans Frontiers, and then needs to come to the United States to coordinate with Doctors Without Borders? BAR him from traveling to the United States? Or the Chinese businessman who sold medical equipment to the Liberians, and then was going to stop in Seattle to visit family? BAR him from traveling to the United States? Or the South African traveler, or the gentleman from India? Are you going to be the travel police that decides whose reason to travel to Liberia is valid, and who should not be permitted to travel there, by preventing those people from leaving once they enter the country? Is that your plan?
500 people per day come from affected countries. Ebola has been going on for several months now and ONE person has come in to the west and subsequently developed Ebola. ONE! That case was contained in spite of some incredible bungling. Where's the threat? It's just irrational fears. When we get past all our education and sophistication we are no better than some uneducated African. We are just neanderthals acting like neanderthals over this disease (and the enterovirus, and I would add ISIS to that as well).
I'd wager if you had to clean planes in JFK that were international flights you might be thinking twice as well.
What about the French diplomat that flew to Liberia to handle financing for Medicins Sans Frontiers, and then needs to come to the United States to coordinate with Doctors Without Borders? BAR him from traveling to the United States? Or the Chinese businessman who sold medical equipment to the Liberians, and then was going to stop in Seattle to visit family? BAR him from traveling to the United States? Or the South African traveler, or the gentleman from India? Are you going to be the travel police that decides whose reason to travel to Liberia is valid, and who should not be permitted to travel there, by preventing those people from leaving once they enter the country? Is that your plan?
We're going with the government's plan..."cross your fingers"
We have to issue visas because if we stop issuing visas they will come here and give us Ebola.
They figure if they issue visas they can track them. If they suspend visas then these people will sneak in, not like they are already doing that but what the hey.
If we sever connections with Africa then Americans are in more danger of catching Ebola.
The UK is even worse. They have 40 flights a day landing and are doing no screening at all.
Their logic is that they have a good healthcare system.
No one wants to cut them off. PC has turned suicidal.
It's not so simple. If we sever connections with Africa today, what happens tomorrow? We are already losing trade advantages to the Chinese and to Russia because African nations don't trust the United States. We live on this planet. It serves us to be a part of the planet, and not to pursue policies that simply cause more hostility towards the United States.
What about the French diplomat that flew to Liberia to handle financing for Medicins Sans Frontiers, and then needs to come to the United States to coordinate with Doctors Without Borders? BAR him from traveling to the United States? Or the Chinese businessman who sold medical equipment to the Liberians, and then was going to stop in Seattle to visit family? BAR him from traveling to the United States? Or the South African traveler, or the gentleman from India? Are you going to be the travel police that decides whose reason to travel to Liberia is valid, and who should not be permitted to travel there, by preventing those people from leaving once they enter the country? Is that your plan?
So you're saying that we should do nothing at all?
There needs to be SOME plan in effect to restrict travel until the outbreak is over. I don't know what the answer is, but there has to be something a lot better than what we're doing (or not doing, as the case may be) now.
Which are symptoms of so many illnesses.
And flu season is just around the corner.
Africa has bigger issues because their people are third world and refuse to stop their customs.
Texas had to deny African customs for Duncan. I can't believe that the family even wanted to perform them seeing it was Ebola.
So you're saying that we should do nothing at all?
There needs to be SOME plan in effect to restrict travel until the outbreak is over. I don't know what the answer is, but there has to be something a lot better than what we're doing (or not doing, as the case may be) now.
We are a reactive society, not a proactive one.
Remember that.
We are a reactive society, not a proactive one.
Remember that.
Yeah, I know......
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