Featured Travel Ban: Why Obama/CDC Refuse to Impose One!

He simply DOES NOT CARE. How DARE real life interrupt golf and fundraising! Here's a hint: if Jimmy Carter says your handling of the Middle East is bad....

 

This reply is not an argument for or against a travel ban. But is it possible a travel ban might make things worse?

With a travel ban how would you:

1. Get aid workers into West Africa.
2. Get them out of West Africa to bring them home.
3. Get aid to West Africa.

Ronald Reagan put a travel ban on anyone with AIDS entering the country. Didn't work.

There was no travel ban put in place for Swine flu, etc. Swine flu killed over 12,000 Americans.

There was no travel ban put in place prohibiting people from traveling to or from China during the SARS epidemic/pandemic where there were over 8000 cases in a 7 month period.

A travel ban would only encourage people to lie about whether they had been in West Africa.

There are no direct flights from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea to the United States, so how would such a ban work? A person flies from one of these countries to Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam where they transfer to other flights (and there are a lot of flights from those cities to the US) ... how would we know, unless they told the truth, that their travel started in one of these countries?

 

These ebola conversations are getting hard to follow in here because instead of contributing to another thread, I guess everyone feels that whenever they need to say something, a whole new thread is required.

 

I agree..................

 

Unfortunately, Obama cannot be impeached because of his race so it is not worthwhile to speculate on that.

You would think that the airliners going in and out of West Africa would stop their flights so that they would not have to spend so much money on cleaning the planes if they do clean them.

What does CDC stand for? Center for Democrat Corruption?

 

Many surrounding countries in West Africa have sealed or tightened their borders against the plagued nations.

So grave is the situation just to walk around doing daily life things in the heavily affected countries puts one at risk.

The handling of money, purchasing food from the market places, riding a bus, tainted water, poor hygienic practices, use of public facilities, etc.

This includes probably everybody stepping off a plane (or connections thereof) from West Africa.

Prove your theory, picture yourself greeting a plane full of citizens from west Africa with a hearty bare-skinned handshake.

Be honest within yourself.


HankD

 

Instead of making an asinine comment, how about making a real one like "Obama cannot be impeached because there is no grounds to do so."

 

Unfortunately, there are many grounds but any attack on Obama, even a mild criticism, is construed as racism. The Democrats have a trump card there. Obama should impose a travel ban on people from West African countries with infections and even the Democrats are saying that he will do that this coming week.

 

This is number is way too inflated. Total deaths were, at most, 3500.

Precisely, and there is no way to entirely enforce it. Outside of putting up giant fences, armed guards, and land mines around affected regions, there is no reasonable way to keep travel limited.

This is why European authorities need to do much, much more. This isn't getting better, going away, or finding easy cures. The specter of worldwide contagion should necessitate immediate international collaboration.

There can be a modified travel ban, but no complete ban. Medical personnel should be able to travel in and out of the region.

 

That is right. He could never be impeached because of his skin color. Far too many would cry racism regardless the evidence against him.

 

This is wrong of course. You see, first, somebody would actually have to try to impeach him. Not happening. Then there is the small issue of finding something to impeach him for, of which there is nothing.

 

Not having done much travel that requires a passport, I have always been under the impression that passports were stamped by every country one visited.

Am I wrong?

 

Then how come nobody is trying?

 

It's because they got nothing RD2. His decision making is up for debate about whether or not he is always correct but to say he's criminal is simply untrue and the real reason of why no one is trying.

 

Here is what will evoke a travel ban:

An Ebola outbreak in Washington DC.

HankD