Banning flights from Ebola countries (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Spain, and the United States) is almost a symbolic gesture. There are so many connections through Paris, Brussels, London, and other hubs, that whether a flight is direct hardly matters.
The real issue is passports, and that’s where we can get some added safety - if we treat those countries just like Saudi Arabia treated them for the Hajj. I don’t expect leadership from Obama, not in an area that would make America safer.
I posted this at another FR site: Another very disturbing development. Since the big drug companies and the medical establishment don’t have a cure, and it will take months to develop the experimental drugs and vaccines, then common sense says they should immediately try something simple, cheap and readily available. That would be high dosage Vitamin C. Ebola wipes out Vitamin C stores in the patient’s body immediately and they then die from symptoms like rampant scurvy. Dr Frederick Klenner many years ago tried high doses of IV and oral Vitamin C with considerable success on virus diseases and toxic poisoning by snakes and spiders. To learn more Google his name and also “Vitamin C treatment for Ebola.” Pass this on to everyone you know or has some authority to try this out. Even if it doesn’t work, there is virtually no danger of overdose with Vitamin C.
I sent more detailed info to my son who is in Special Forces and he plans to go right out and buy several bottles in case it comes here or he gets suddenly deployed.
You don’t ban flights, you cancel visas and don’t allow entry to people holding passports from infected countries, come on it’s not that hard the whole banning flights thing is a canard.