They should be canceling visa’s and suspending issuing them. Then screen the returning citizens for health. It is crazy to let more possible cases in. This would not hinder the emergency people going back and forth.
What will finally end this issue is that air crews will refuse to fly to those countries. That already happened with the French. West Africa flights are not exactly the hot assignments for air crew anyway…this just makes it even worse.
Too true. If I were a native in one of the infected countries, and had the cash, I would hop a plane to the U.S. pronto on a visitor’s visa. If during the incubation period, I showed signs of ebola, I would be assured of the best hospital care available, but also would have infected many US citizens with whom I came into contact...collateral damage, their hard luck. If I never came down with the disease, I would just melt into the U.S. as an illegal...no way I would be returning. By not “closing our borders” to natives from these countries, we are exposing our own citizenry to this horror.