This seems to be a leadership issue. I guess we are being told that this administration is not capable of dealing with logistics. Because we don't have leadership, we have to continue to let ebola into America, and Americans will die.
What about the airlines themselves? British Airways and AirFrance have already stopped flights into West Africa. How will this administration handle the "chaos" when United, American and Delta stop their flights?
...The third reason closing borders is nuts is that it will devastate the economies of West Africa and further destroy the limited health systems there.
I would guess that ebola has already done this. Anyone here planning a vaction to Liberia?
“..The third reason closing borders is nuts is that it will devastate the economies of West Africa and further destroy the limited health systems there.”
The combined economies of these countries is likely less than that of the Dallas Metroplex. IOW, who gives a damn? As for their health systems...really? Who are these idiots trying to fool? What good docs that they may have had are either dead or dying. There is NO healthcare system to speak of over there, not after what Ebola has done there.
These guys, and anyone that agrees with them, are drooling idiots. Ebola is a Level 4 disease - there simply isn’t a catagory for higher virulence. In the BEST of circumstances it kills 70% of people who contract it, and we still don’t know how EXACTLY it can be transmitted. We know some of the ways, but not all - especially since it can mutate. And it can, has and will continue to mutate. But, somehow, making Americans and Europeans sick will help Africa. WTF, over?
Throughout history, quarantines and isolation are the ONLY ways that work to stop a disease for which there is no cure (and there is NONE here, ZMapp not withstanding). No more hosts, then the disease dies, period. We absolutely need to blockade travel to and from West Africa, except for military transports that airdrop supplies and gear. The gear should all have clearly-written instructions in English, French, the native language and pictures. DON’T expose anyone else where it is preventable.
As to the BS argument that you can’t stop everyone...OK, that is true on its surface. So what! If someone robbed your house last night, do you leave the doors unlocked tonight? WRT Ebola or any other deadly communicable disease, if you can stop 95% of them, then you substantially slow the spread of this plague, giving the more advanced nations more opportunity to come up with a cure, come up with a vaccine, produce new supplies, etc. Help Africa where you can - from both a practical and moral view this is what we can and should do. But DO NOT, EVER, allow the crown jewels of medical knowledge and research in the First World to become compromised; otherwise everyone INCLUDING Africa, will suffer that much more than with a blockade.
These phucktards have just tripled down on stupidity. Since they are very, very clearly doing this for political reasons, I can only hope that a just God and a ticked off American public reward them with a monumental defeat in 3 weeks.