Why won't Obama impose a flight ban from Ebola-stricken nations?

[mdk]

I swear a thread on this exact same topic is started every hour on the hour. Good grief.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"Why won't Obama impose a flight ban from Ebola-stricken nations?"

Because the notion is ignorant nonsense:

“The practicality is that most flights from Africa go through other airports outside of the U.S. and to actually track every person leaving Africa through the airports in Belgium, Amsterdam, London, et cetera, strikes me as an impossible task. The humanitarian argument I think speaks for itself and the likelihood that we would really snuff something that way also seems misguided.”

Why Ebola Is Not A Threat To The U.S. NPR

 

[Moonglow]

I am glad we have some rational posters on this thread, if not I'd think that the majority are timid dwarfs from a nether region...

 

[Moonglow]

I swear a thread on this exact same topic is started every hour on the hour. Good grief.

They just are so uncomfortable unless they are frantic....and in a state of exasperated chaos..

 

[PredFan]

The medical profession and the FAA said that a flight ban would not work...

No, they didn't. Politicians said that.

Everyone else in the medical profession knows a ban would work.

 

[PredFan]

The medical profession and the FAA said that a flight ban would not work...

The FAA works for Obama. Of course they said that.

When you say "the medical profession," who would that be?

The AMA probably. An organization that has very little respect anymore among doctors. Most MDs don't belong to it.

 

[PredFan]

Letting it spread world wide is the worse thing you can do. People are going to die because of this that otherwise wouldn't.

Actually, a lot if other countries have banned flights from there already. They will be fine, we might not.

 

[PredFan]

The medical profession and the FAA said that a flight ban would not work...

The FAA works for Obama. Of course they said that.

When you say "the medical profession," who would that be?

Dr Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has tried to explain why he doesn’t support a travel ban:

Importantly, isolating countries won’t keep Ebola contained and away from American shores. Paradoxically, it will increase the risk that Ebola will spread in those countries and to other countries, and that we will have more patients who develop Ebola in the US. People will move between countries, even when governments restrict travel and trade. And that kind of travel becomes almost impossible to track.

Simply put: you can’t seal the country. If you blocked air travel, it would force desperate individuals to use alternative routes – over land and sea – to escape the epidemic. They’ll still end up in the US, except you won’t know where.

Ebola Is Coming. A Travel Ban Won t Stop Outbreaks - Forbes

Oh Forbes said it? Ok, I'll just ignore all common sense and agree with them.

 

[PredFan]

Letting it spread world wide is the worse thing you can do. People are going to die because of this that otherwise wouldn't.

It's already world wide it's too late for flight bans and all that other worthless attempts...

Ebola is already world wide? Source please.

 

[Moonglow]

The US has no direct flights from West Africa....

 

[Mustang]

Read more: Blog Why won t Obama impose a flight ban from Ebola-stricken nations

Perhaps he sees himself a citizen of the world and would not punish nations in Africa who have suffered from being colonized by the West. He did call himself a citizen of the world in 2008 - while overseas.

Given testimony delivered this week by CDC head Tom Frieden it does seem that President Obama is the person preventing the ban from being imposed , ignoring the will –again-of the vast majority of Americans who see such an action as being a sensible precaution, especially given the incompetence so pervasive in our government. Protests have started across from the White House, complete with Hazmat-costumed people :

Question: Which of those countries (Liberia, Guinea, or Sierra Leone) have direct flights to the US?

 

[PredFan]

"Why won't Obama impose a flight ban from Ebola-stricken nations?"

Because the notion is ignorant nonsense:

“The practicality is that most flights from Africa go through other airports outside of the U.S. and to actually track every person leaving Africa through the airports in Belgium, Amsterdam, London, et cetera, strikes me as an impossible task. The humanitarian argument I think speaks for itself and the likelihood that we would really snuff something that way also seems misguided.”

Why Ebola Is Not A Threat To The U.S. NPR

Hello McFly? Ever heard of passports?

 

[PredFan]

The US has no direct flights from West Africa....

Are you really that stupid?

 

[AmericanGirl05]

The medical profession and the FAA said that a flight ban would not work...

The FAA works for Obama. Of course they said that.

When you say "the medical profession," who would that be?

Dr Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has tried to explain why he doesn’t support a travel ban:

Importantly, isolating countries won’t keep Ebola contained and away from American shores. Paradoxically, it will increase the risk that Ebola will spread in those countries and to other countries, and that we will have more patients who develop Ebola in the US. People will move between countries, even when governments restrict travel and trade. And that kind of travel becomes almost impossible to track.

Simply put: you can’t seal the country. If you blocked air travel, it would force desperate individuals to use alternative routes – over land and sea – to escape the epidemic. They’ll still end up in the US, except you won’t know where.

Ebola Is Coming. A Travel Ban Won t Stop Outbreaks - Forbes

He's one doctor. And he works for Obama.

Maybe you ought to try some unbiased sources.

He does not work for Oblama, he works for the US govt.

He's a political appointee, not a career civil servant. As such, he serves at the pleasure of the President.

He works for Obama.

 

[PredFan]

Read more: Blog Why won t Obama impose a flight ban from Ebola-stricken nations

Perhaps he sees himself a citizen of the world and would not punish nations in Africa who have suffered from being colonized by the West. He did call himself a citizen of the world in 2008 - while overseas.

Given testimony delivered this week by CDC head Tom Frieden it does seem that President Obama is the person preventing the ban from being imposed , ignoring the will –again-of the vast majority of Americans who see such an action as being a sensible precaution, especially given the incompetence so pervasive in our government. Protests have started across from the White House, complete with Hazmat-costumed people :

Question: Which of those countries (Liberia, Guinea, or Sierra Leone) have direct flights to the US?

Irrelevant.

 

[Moonglow]

Letting it spread world wide is the worse thing you can do. People are going to die because of this that otherwise wouldn't.

It's already world wide it's too late for flight bans and all that other worthless attempts...

Ebola is already world wide? Source please.

It's in Spain, do you fellows never see any news but from extreme right wing sites?

 

[Moonglow]

The medical profession and the FAA said that a flight ban would not work...

The FAA works for Obama. Of course they said that.

When you say "the medical profession," who would that be?

Dr Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has tried to explain why he doesn’t support a travel ban:

Importantly, isolating countries won’t keep Ebola contained and away from American shores. Paradoxically, it will increase the risk that Ebola will spread in those countries and to other countries, and that we will have more patients who develop Ebola in the US. People will move between countries, even when governments restrict travel and trade. And that kind of travel becomes almost impossible to track.

Simply put: you can’t seal the country. If you blocked air travel, it would force desperate individuals to use alternative routes – over land and sea – to escape the epidemic. They’ll still end up in the US, except you won’t know where.

Ebola Is Coming. A Travel Ban Won t Stop Outbreaks - Forbes

He's one doctor. And he works for Obama.

Maybe you ought to try some unbiased sources.

He does not work for Oblama, he works for the US govt.

He's a political appointee, not a career civil servant. As such, he serves at the pleasure of the President.

He works for Obama.

Oblama never signs his check, Oblama is his boss, but he does not own the govt...

 

[PredFan]

Letting it spread world wide is the worse thing you can do. People are going to die because of this that otherwise wouldn't.

It's already world wide it's too late for flight bans and all that other worthless attempts...

Ebola is already world wide? Source please.

It's in Spain, do you fellows never see any news but from extreme right wing sites?

Source?

And even if it was, Spain is the whole world now?

 

[AmericanGirl05]

The FAA works for Obama. Of course they said that.

When you say "the medical profession," who would that be?

Dr Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has tried to explain why he doesn’t support a travel ban:

Importantly, isolating countries won’t keep Ebola contained and away from American shores. Paradoxically, it will increase the risk that Ebola will spread in those countries and to other countries, and that we will have more patients who develop Ebola in the US. People will move between countries, even when governments restrict travel and trade. And that kind of travel becomes almost impossible to track.

Simply put: you can’t seal the country. If you blocked air travel, it would force desperate individuals to use alternative routes – over land and sea – to escape the epidemic. They’ll still end up in the US, except you won’t know where.

Ebola Is Coming. A Travel Ban Won t Stop Outbreaks - Forbes

He's one doctor. And he works for Obama.

Maybe you ought to try some unbiased sources.

He does not work for Oblama, he works for the US govt.

He's a political appointee, not a career civil servant. As such, he serves at the pleasure of the President.

He works for Obama.

Oblama never signs his check, Oblama is his boss, but he does not own the govt...

No, Moonglow. As a political appointee, he serves at the direct pleasure of the President and the President can request his resignation at any time.

As a retired career Federal employee, I checked his status out. He is a political appointee. He works for Obama. CDC under him are career civil servants who cannot be fired at the President's (or even Frieden's) whim.

But Frieden can be. Ergo, he has to sing to the tune Obama dictates.

Got it now?

 

[Moonglow]

Duncan flew into the US from Brussels..he was turned away from the hospital and the hospital failed in it's prognostication...the nurses were infected because the hospital refused to recognize what they had and how to treat it...