shrink wrapped wrote:
you don't know much about how passports are used. it happens all EVERY DAY that we deny entry to people who fly here from other countries. since you probably never fly internationally, i'll let you in on the little known fact that there is this place called IMMIGRATION at every international airport that everyone -- americans and foreigners -- has to clear before letting in. every single day people get snagged in immigration and are denied entry. paying to send them home or quarantining them is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the cost of just 1 person with ebola getting through. the fact that you are completely unaware about how immigration works at airports is shocking. truly shocking.
i think what you meant to write was "thinking travel bans will do nothing to resolve the problem is delusional." of course all hospitals need to improve protocols (especially with the clueless CDC guiding them). however, if nobody with ebola gets loose here, it all will be moot. do us all a favor and broaden your horizons with a little international travel. you just might learn how immigration works and then you might be able to post something of some value.
So you've got a planeload of people coming into Dulles from Frankfurt. One of the passengers has an originating passport stamp from Liberia. What do you do with the 300 people? Do you quarantine only the passenger from Liberia, or do you quarantine everyone because they were in close promiximity to someone who is coming from an "ebola country" (even though it is highly unlikely that he himself was infected). How long do you quarantine for? Where? And if you send them back, won't you simply risk infecting even more people with ebola?
And what about the other ten planes that have landed since the Frankfurt flight, all with one or two people coming from West Africa?
