[pepsionice]

Based on commentary of this guy’s last two weeks in Liberia...helping this pregnant gal get to the hospital when she was showing Ebola symptoms...I think he knew was out of luck, and just shook the dice to come onto the US, sleep with the girlfriend, and pretend he didn’t have the disease.

The problem with stopping or banning the flights business....if you look at the way this guy got to the US...he flew from Liberia onto Belgium...waited twenty-four hours roughly, and then flew onto Dulles. No one in the Administration can find a way to ban flights from legit countries (Japan, UK, Belgium, etc). The testing method? It’s currently bogus. Of course, what I’d fear is that they develop a simple test which is mandated for all folks entering the US, but requires a six-hour delay and costs each entry-person $300.

Meanwhile, I’d suggest that you settle back....watch the Strand (Stephen King thriller), and kinda just accept what will follow.

[Misterioso]

watch the Strand (Stephen King thriller)

The title is actually "The Stand."

[Wingy]

I was listening to a microbiologist say that there is a 15 minute test for ebola, but it is not yet approved. This may change soon, she said.

As to the route this fellow took, wouldn't it make sense to ban passengers carrying passports from Ebola hotspots?

[Beagle8U]

“No one in the Administration can find a way to ban flights from legit countries (Japan, UK, Belgium, etc).”

Passports get stamped from every country, and they are dated. Any passport with an Africa stamp would be banned.

If a foreign country allows one to board a flight to America we refuse entry and put them back on that plane.

The airlines would correct that problem real quick after the first time they had to fly one back in an empty plane!

[Ann Archy]

Will the girlfriend get Ebola?? Will the step-daddy’s stepdaughter get Ebola?? And which family went to the gated Community....his sister or his girlfriend?

[Former Proud Canadian]

"The problem with stopping or banning the flights business....if you look at the way this guy got to the US...he flew from Liberia onto Belgium...waited twenty-four hours roughly, and then flew onto Dulles. No one in the Administration can find a way to ban flights from legit countries (Japan, UK, Belgium, etc)."

A lot of people are missing the point re "banning flights". It's kind of like the gun control debate. Guns don't kill, people do. In this case airline flights don't kill, it's the infected people that get off the flight.

The solution is simple. Refuse entry to any person who has travelled to Sierra Leone, Guinea, or Liberia in the last 21 days. At least its a start.

[Balding_Eagle]

I’d suggest that you settle back....watch the Strand (Stephen King thriller), and kinda just accept what will follow.

You're saying we shouldn't act American anymore?