The sticky issue is what to do with health care workers who are already in those countries and how they might return to the U.S. Also, what to do with American citizens.
I support a ban but some provision would need to be made or else nobody from the U.S. trying to assist those infected would be able to return home.
How long would it take to travel from there to the U.S. by boat? Maybe that is the answer as that would allow for time in quasi-isolation for any symptoms to develop before they arrived in the U.S.
Ted Cruz advocates military transport for Ebola aid, calls for travel ban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3215596/posts
its called charter flights .
Ever heard of it !
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“The sticky issue is what to do with health care workers who are already in those countries and how they might return to the U.S. Also, what to do with American citizens.”
Maybe only semi-sticky. One form of the ban is to ban passport holders from the affected countries regardless of the flight origin.
A quarantine should be required for aid workers and others returning from Africa. In fact, I read that the Army is considering preparing a facility to quarantine the 4,000 troops that Obama is throwing away on Liberia.
But they need to stop all other travel by people from those places. And stop it at the start: they shouldn’t be allowed to board planes until this disease is under control in their countries.
It’s probably not going to prevent some individual from sneaking through other African countries and getting here, but it at least lessens the odds a bit.
“The sticky issue is what to do with health care workers who are already in those countries and how they might return to the U.S.”
Quarantine. That is what has been done historically.