Dr. Brantly is an American citizen.....NOT an illegal
His transport was arranged by Franklin Graham...(Billy Graham’s son) who heads up Samaritan Purse......the evangelical mission to other countries.
Dr. Brantly was in Africa with Samaritans Purse......
along with Graham, the State Dept and CDC also signed off on this
if I were you, I. would worry more about the multi country Afican nations conference starting in DC next week!!!!
Needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Keep him out!
Brantly will be the scapegoat when people begin getting ill due to lax immigration.
Graham’s organization will forever associated with any outbreak in the US.
I would have expected common sense from Franklin Graham, but I guess not.
If our doctors want to head to Africa and treat the afflicted Americans, fine, let them go. The point is this: there’s never been a case of Ebola in America, but we have just voluntarily brought it in.
A doctor on Fox News said he would think we’ll see “some” cases popping up here and there, but no major outbreak. Yeah. Right.
I don’t care about his citizenship or his noble deeds and intentions. He is a carrier of a virus that does not exist in this country and introducing it in this manner is criminal even if nobody dies.
One of the first things I learned in the handling of pathogenic organisms is that you isolate the carrier/source and contain it in an area as far outside of the uninfected region as possible.
They could have been isolated in a very remote area, Diego Garcia, etc.
There are too many ways this could go bad.
If it takes the good doctor, so be it. He knew the risks going in and I’m betting that he is not necessarily for his own transport into North America.
By now, Mexico must be thinking, “How many ebola infected people have used us as a transit route for illegal immigrants to the US?”
Just because Franklin Graham “signed off” does not mitigate the fact that bringing Ebola to the States is not a good idea. And, you might have forgotten that the CDC recently lost some anthrax samples, so that “sign off” is of little value, as well!