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The country in question would have to enforce the quarantine.
Another reason to just cut flights.
The country in question would have to enforce the quarantine.
I don't think we have much power to compel Belgium to change its policy of who is allowed to travel in and out of the country.
No it's not impractical, you have your agenda so there isn't anything that can be said that would change your mind. We reject passports every single day 365 days a year.
If the person is in quarantine, just how is he going to contract the disease? Tell me what you think his chances are of contracting it under those circumstances?
Why are you against protecting the people of this country from a disease that has no known cure nor a vaccine at this time?
Do you hate America?
Why are you against a prudent solution to a serious problem?
Why do you want someone who could be infected to enter our country?
I don't think we have much power to compel Belgium to change its policy of who is allowed to travel in and out of the country.
The country in question would have to enforce the quarantine.
The best way to fight the ebola epidemic is to confront it at its source.
AND...The best way to fight the ebola epidemic is to confront it at its source.
My question to the twit is why didn't that happen with the current and previous patients. They all should have been sent to an isolation ward.
Difficult to do when infected people are allowed to spread the disease to the US, unless you think Dallas is considered the source.The best way to fight the ebola epidemic is to confront it at its source.
Again, no. Ban any passenger from the hot spot countries from traveling to the US, regardless of the country the flight originated. In Duncan's case, he flew to Brussels first, then to Dallas TX. In Brussels, were the ban in place, Duncan would not have been permitted to board the flight to the U.S.
It's really not that difficult at a concept level so I'm not sure why you're having trouble with this. :shrug:
Heya Ockham :2wave: here was what they were showing that leaves those countries by air.
It doesn't look to be that difficult for direct flights - but I'd like to see connecting flights ban people from hot spots in West Africa as well. If they have a Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia or Nigeria passport/visa - no entry. Of course this would be temporary until the Ebola outbreak is contained and controlled.
I thought I did. Will try again.
I saw that. Ebola is not new. Do WHO and UNICEF have a history of inept reporting on Ebola?
I wouldn't know if their reporting was inept.....but the World Health Organization has been putting out reports long before the MS media here was picking it up on every channel and with most news agencies.
MMC, the Dallas woman visited Akron, Ohio!
PM sent
Heya Pirate. :2wave:Yeah and now he admits they should have sent a response team to Dallas.....although now they say they have a response team ready. Also the Atlanta hospital sent 2 nurses to the Dallas hospital to help.
Some Health officials are arguing that flight restrictions are counterproductive.
A top health expert warns against closing borders to stop Ebola - Washington Times
Some Health officials are arguing that flight restrictions are counterproductive.
A top health expert warns against closing borders to stop Ebola - Washington Times
From Ed Morrissey.
To Contain Ebola, Obama Must Impose a West-African Travel Ban.....
The last thing this administration needed was another crisis. In an election cycle that features few issues other than Obama’s own policies – as the President himself helpfully admitted last week – another bungled response would only make the leadership deficit more acute. The emergence of Ebola in Dallas, Texas, and the CDC’s failure to control the situation, has added yet another brick to the load weighing down Democrats in this cycle.
None of this instills confidence in this administration’s ability to deal with one single outbreak point. What happens when more come? The Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that two-thirds of Americans want a ban on travel from Ebola-linked countries until the outbreak subsides, and it’s not difficult to understand why. With just one case, we have two transmissions and potentially over 200 more, thanks to a slow response from the healthcare center and the CDC’s inability to keep a monitored high-risk case from boarding a commercial flight to Cleveland and back. The White House insisted yesterday that no such travel ban would be forthcoming, but the crisis has rattled Obama enough to cancel a fundraising trip and stick around for a Cabinet meeting. Right now, the crisis is still very manageable, but only as long as they can contain the Dallas outbreak and hope another plane with visitors from western Africa does not bring another Patient Zero to America. Obama and his advisers should consider a travel ban as a necessary first step to prevent that – and perhaps to restore a little bit of confidence in their leadership......snip~
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/contain-ebola-obama-must-impose-094500403.html
I'm sure there are multiple petitions going on - here's one of them but it needs 100,000 sign ups by the end of the month. So far their only 1/3 of the way there. What's amazing is that such a common sense and simple act to protect Americans temporarily is a political football. Truly our nation is polarized to the point of paralysis.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...icken-countries-until-ebola-outbreak/FFJHH9yX
MADRID—An Air France aircraft flying from Paris was grounded at its Madrid destination Thursday over concerns that one of the passengers showed potential symptoms of Ebola.
Officials for the French airline, the Spanish government and the Madrid airport said the passenger had fallen ill during the flight and would be tested for the virus.
The person in question on Air France flight 1300—with 156 passengers on board, as well as two pilots and five crew members—showed symptoms of Ebola, including shaking, said a spokeswoman for Air France in Madrid.
It wasn’t clear what, if any, other symptoms the passenger showed. And those passengers were likely to be given the go ahead to disembark Thursday afternoon Madrid time, the spokeswoman said.
Spain’s state-owned broadcaster RTVE said the passenger was of Nigerian origin and had started the journey in Lagos.
The aircraft, an Airbus A321, left Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport at 0735 GMT and arrived in Madrid Barajas airport at 0940 GMT, the spokeswoman said.