0 doesn’t want to offend any of his pro-illegal immigrant cronies so he refuses to shut down all commercial flights from W Africa.He plays politics even when our lives depend on it!
Head it off at the pass; send more basic resources to the beleaugured countries: beds, materials, health personnel.
Then you can worry less about how it will enter our own countries. Stopping direct flights will do little to stop infected travellers from heading to our shores. Better screening at source (limited to detecting clear symptons at time of departure) might catch one or two travellers but that will be largely to allay our own fears, cosmetic.The disease is not airborne, it requires direct contact with body fluids so we won’t see the same epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone & Guinea where they have very poor sanitary conditions and limited health services. One thing they do have in common with us: MISINFORMATION. Come, come, enough of the fear mongering, enough of the politicising of the disease. Stop the hysteria and look at resolving it with those nations’ peoples.
1st. – Stop the hysteria. Then get some real advice. One can imagine why misinformation is causing deaths in those countries, many lack access to it, many are illiterate, uneducated etc. But we in the West do not have that excuse to remain misinformed:
Stopping direct flights is a start. Humanitarian aid can be delivered on charter or military flights. Using airport workers to check temperatures and relying on travelers to tell the truth on exit questionnaires is stupid. The Liberian in Texas lied to make his flight. He’s dead and one of his nurses is infected.
The Ebola River is in northern Congo, gee Africa, but not really “west” Africa.
Asian influenzas have killied literally thousands more people, but they’re from Asia. Does the politically driven fears of Ebola have anything to do with the fact it DID trace its origins to Africa? Nah, out of Africa would never influence anything political in the U.S..
ConserveGov over 9 years ago
0 doesn’t want to offend any of his pro-illegal immigrant cronies so he refuses to shut down all commercial flights from W Africa.He plays politics even when our lives depend on it!
OmqR-IV.0 over 9 years ago
Head it off at the pass; send more basic resources to the beleaugured countries: beds, materials, health personnel.
Then you can worry less about how it will enter our own countries. Stopping direct flights will do little to stop infected travellers from heading to our shores. Better screening at source (limited to detecting clear symptons at time of departure) might catch one or two travellers but that will be largely to allay our own fears, cosmetic.The disease is not airborne, it requires direct contact with body fluids so we won’t see the same epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone & Guinea where they have very poor sanitary conditions and limited health services. One thing they do have in common with us: MISINFORMATION. Come, come, enough of the fear mongering, enough of the politicising of the disease. Stop the hysteria and look at resolving it with those nations’ peoples.
OmqR-IV.0 over 9 years ago
1st. – Stop the hysteria. Then get some real advice. One can imagine why misinformation is causing deaths in those countries, many lack access to it, many are illiterate, uneducated etc. But we in the West do not have that excuse to remain misinformed:
How to avoid catching Ebola.
Observer fo Irony over 9 years ago
Where Pestilence went Ebola is soon to follow. Or was that the other way around.
dzw3030 over 9 years ago
Stopping direct flights is a start. Humanitarian aid can be delivered on charter or military flights. Using airport workers to check temperatures and relying on travelers to tell the truth on exit questionnaires is stupid. The Liberian in Texas lied to make his flight. He’s dead and one of his nurses is infected.
neatslob Premium Member over 9 years ago
Of course he wasn’t on a direct flight, his last international stop was in Belgium.
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
The Ebola River is in northern Congo, gee Africa, but not really “west” Africa.
Asian influenzas have killied literally thousands more people, but they’re from Asia. Does the politically driven fears of Ebola have anything to do with the fact it DID trace its origins to Africa? Nah, out of Africa would never influence anything political in the U.S..