Govt. Not Banning Flights from Ebola Hot Zones

markschultz25 wrote:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/01/health/ebola-us-no-reason-to-panic/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Seriously? Unbelievable. Maybe this is part of Obama's ultimate plan to make america a third world nation. Like this here is going to ease any concerns:

The United States isn't planning on banning flights coming from the hot zones in West Africa, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in August.

But once flights land at a U.S. airport from one of those countries, passengers are screened once again.

.... This administration is so opening and welcoming to foreigners, that they're going to let them run rampant in America with ebola too. Smh. Anyone who elected this clown Obama, well, I hope you all are happy with the mess we have on our hands.

Ok I'll bite.

"...the impact of severe restrictions on flights from Ebola-affected regions. An 80 percent reduction in air travelers would do no more than delay the impact of Ebola by a few weeks."

"Unless you can completely shut down the transportation systems, these kinds of efforts will, at best, buy you a little time," Longini says. "And they can be quite counterproductive because you're interrupting the flow of help, goods and services. It can make the epidemic worse in the country that's being quarantined."

"...the probability [of an imported case] increases as long as the West African epidemics keep growing. And that means U.S. hospitals, doctors and public health officials need to heighten their vigilance."

A few weeks = more time, which is a good thing period. Time is important and it can better prepare the public, etc.

DAMN YOU OBAMA!!!

markschultz25 wrote:

A few weeks = more time, which is a good thing period. Time is important and it can better prepare the public, etc.

You sir, are an idiot.

4/10

Ok, so if you think im a troll, then i guess Obama is not the president. This is occurring under his watch.

If you or someone you knows get Ebola, id love you to mock me then.

They absolutely should be banning travel from these areas. This is a clear national security risk and needs to be treated as such. Whenever I fly international (which is a lot), I come back and I'm asked dumb questions like whether I spent time on a farm. Really? No, dude, I was in the hot zone over there in Liberia. Oh, really? c'mon in! Welcome!

CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen said when she and two colleagues recently returned from reporting in Liberia, they got a mixed bag of responses from Customs and Border Protection officers.

"We all said we were journalists who had just been in Liberia covering Ebola," Cohen said. "One of my colleagues was told, 'Oh, OK, welcome back home, sir' -- and (was) just let in -- that was it."

Amazing how this happens so close to the mid term elections

What? Why is this a problem? Get the government OUT OF OUR LIVES!!!!

Maximum Freedom, Minimum Government.

The Free Market will take care of Ebola.

1.) People will stop traveling on airlines that ferry ebola patients all over the world. Those airlines will go out of business and ebola patients will be stuck in a de facto quarentine.

2.) Once a million or so people (first world people with money, not the current patients) get Ebola, Big Pharm will have incentive to invent a new drug to cure it.

Free Market wins every time, baby. Meanwhile, if I want to travel to and from ebola hot spots, that is my GOD GIVEN RIGHT!

BAN EBOLA!!!!

If I get ebola because the gov't let people enter this country from the hot zone, will Obamacare cover me?

1) Restricting flights to and from these countries will do ENORMOUS economic damage. The economic and political unrest is already starting, and completely cutting these countries off will only increase that. That means that aside from the 6000 people who have been laboratory-confirmed as infected, millions of others will be at risk from other diseases and things like malnutrition and lack of basic infrastructure.

2) With .02% of the population in these countries infected and a virus that is relatively easy to contain (with good public health infrastructure like the US), there is very little risk to the American public

3) If a patient comes to the US with Ebola, their survival chances increase exponentially

4) No other countries are cutting off flights either, what does this have to do with Obama?

Hate to break it to you, but a known airliner transporting people from Ebola hot zones will do more damage to their own reputation, once the airliners are named. No one is going to feel safe on their planes.

markschultz25 wrote:

Ok, so if you think im a troll, blah blah blah

You are a troll. All you ever post on Letsrun is TMZish articles. You never contribute anything. That you actually believe Obama is trying to make the US a 3rd world country furthers the evidence that you have nothing to offer society.

If I was a cynic, I'd be pointing 2 the fact that every zombie movie starts w/ a "don't worry, everything is under control" press conference

If you like your Dr. you can keep your Dr. & there's only one case of Ebola inside the United States & we totally have it under control...

We didn't see #ISIS coming, but we totally saw Muslim terrorists using #Ebola as a bio-weapon and have sealed our borders up super-tight!

This is just idiotic. It would save more lives to ban driving after 9pm on weekend nights, but we don't do it. We are accustomed to the danger of drunk driving and aren't in a raging panic about like we are about Ebola.

Doh!

Obama Speech on Sep 16 at the CDC:

First and foremost, I want the American people to know that our experts, here at the CDC and across our government, agree that the chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low. We’ve been taking the necessary precautions, including working with countries in West Africa to increase screening at airports so that someone with the virus doesn’t get on a plane for the United States. In the unlikely event that someone with Ebola does reach our shores, we’ve taken new measures so that we’re prepared here at home. We’re working to help flight crews identify people who are sick, and more labs across our country now have the capacity to quickly test for the virus. We’re working with hospitals to make sure that they are prepared, and to ensure that our doctors, our nurses and our me.

Great job Barry!!