[sphinx]

Good points, but the question of numbers is key. Suppose we have a non-U.S. doctor working for Doctors Without Borders, or a non-U.S. citizen working as part of a mostly U.S. aid team (therefore "one of ours," by extension), or a Liberian doctor, a certified hero, who has been working for six months in abysmal conditions, staying at the job as he has watched all the other front line responders die? Would you take one or a few of these people, on an individual basis? Most of us would.

But are we willing to fill up a 747 a day and transport hundreds routinely, to be dumped in semi-prepared ICU's around the country? Of course not.

And now the real question: who is willing to trust Team Obama to make rational distinctions in such a matter? Anyone? I didn't think so.

[pepsionice]

I’d go one step further on this. Once you detail that you are intentionally bringing people into New Jersey....by the dozens or hundreds....what do you think the state of Jersey will do? Or say it’s the state of Texas? Or perhaps the state of Michigan?

What do the locals do with the local air base commander? Tell him that they will refuse to allow any member of the base to exit until quarantine is shut-down permanently at the base?

If you wanted massive state-by-state discontent....this is the best way to get it.

I understand the idea here...there isn’t four-star care in Africa, and there will never be such care. There’s a big unfairness situation brewing. But there is simply a limit to hospitality and fairness.