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Why a travel ban wouldn’t work
Politico ^ | Oct 16th, 2014 | By HEATHER CAYGLE and KATHRYN A. WOLFE

Posted on 10/16/2014 7:56:07 PM PDT by Mariner

he political momentum for a travel ban on West African nations continued to swell Thursday, but health and transportation experts were uniform in saying it wouldn’t stem the spread of Ebola — and could do more harm than good.

That hasn’t stopped politicians and pundits — ranging from House Speaker John Boehner to former Obama press secretary Jay Carney — from calling for a travel ban. The appeal is obvious: It sounds like a no-brainer to build an infectious-disease moat around the U.S., blocking some flights and barring people who come from the countries suffering the worst Ebola outbreaks.

But the reality, the experts say, is that those kinds of measures have failed before. And this time, experts inside and outside the administration warned, throttling travel would hammer already devastated West African countries, make it difficult to send relief where it’s needed, and send an unknown number of infected travelers into the shadows, increasing the difficulty of knowing how many were entering the U.S.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ebola; ebolatravel; hangthemhigh; liberalism; mentaldisorder; obola; plane; politicobias; quarantine; travelban
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This article demonstrates the last delusional thrashings of a suicidal mental disorder, (Thank you Michael Savage for crystallizing that characterization for us).

All their stories on this are transparently BS and they can't see it themselves.

The survivors will deal with these kinds of people before this is over.

1 posted on 10/16/2014 7:56:07 PM PDT by Mariner
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Politico shilling as usual


2 posted on 10/16/2014 7:56:30 PM PDT by Viennacon (Obola is a muslim terrorist & his viral illegals need to be deported NOW!)
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To: Mariner

Only in Washington would something like this make sense


3 posted on 10/16/2014 7:58:07 PM PDT by slumber1 (Islam delenda est)
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To: Viennacon

Democratico


4 posted on 10/16/2014 7:58:20 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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What have we told people who have colds or the flu to do for the past hundred years or so?

"Stay at home, get some rest, and come back to school/work when you are feeling better, i.e. you are asymptomatic."

Still people pump themselves full of drugs, go to school/work and get other people sick.

How does a travel ban NOT make perfect sense with all of this past history to go by?

5 posted on 10/16/2014 7:59:35 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Henry Hnyellar

Kool-Aide in print.


6 posted on 10/16/2014 7:59:55 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Mariner

Idiots.


7 posted on 10/16/2014 8:00:39 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Mariner

There’s dumb and then there’s this.


8 posted on 10/16/2014 8:01:23 PM PDT by ealgeone
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By HEATHER CAYGLE and KATHRYN A. WOLF

Go make me a sandwich.

9 posted on 10/16/2014 8:01:39 PM PDT by matt1234 (Obama fled. People bled. Iraq 2014.)
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health and transportation experts were uniform in saying it wouldn’t stem the spread of Ebola — and could do more harm than good.

And who the hell said their desires are more important than those of the American people?

Its a longstanding progressive fantasy that a group of experts and academics make the decisions for us and it needs to stop.
10 posted on 10/16/2014 8:02:15 PM PDT by cripplecreek
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If there was any doubt that Politico was part of the liberal loony-bin...

An online poll reported that 75% of doctors favored a travel ban.

11 posted on 10/16/2014 8:02:27 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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I didn’t believe it but I have changed my mind, liberalism is a mental disease.


12 posted on 10/16/2014 8:03:12 PM PDT by ully2
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Why a travel ban wouldn’t work

Especially when the "let anyone with a pulse in" policy is working so well.

13 posted on 10/16/2014 8:04:23 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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This analysis is 100% liberal Bullsh*t !


14 posted on 10/16/2014 8:04:46 PM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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Of course, why didn’t I see it, it’s so obvious! This must be exactly why laboratorie have such stringent containment procedures for viruses and bacterias.......................oh shit!


15 posted on 10/16/2014 8:05:11 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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Listen you damn losers!!!!

A Travel Ban STOPS EBOLA FROM TRAVELING HERE!!!!

THAT WORKS!!!

What is your damn agenda?????


16 posted on 10/16/2014 8:06:29 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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So...we should be more concerned with other countries and their citizens than our own? Heard this before.


17 posted on 10/16/2014 8:06:47 PM PDT by Dallas59
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I am astounded by this article.

Not a single one of their arguments make any sense.

18 posted on 10/16/2014 8:07:06 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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To: matt1234

KATHRYN A. WOLF

A native Texan, Wolfe grew up in the Houston suburb of Pasadena, whose claim to fame is being the subject of the movie “Urban Cowboy.”

http://images.politico.com/global/2014/08/15/20140813js_kathyrn_wolfe_002.jpg

Oh, she was the mechanical bull....


19 posted on 10/16/2014 8:07:59 PM PDT by harwood (You don't wanna go there.)
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To: Mariner

Quarantine travelers in the White House and Capitol building.


20 posted on 10/16/2014 8:08:07 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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