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

[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?

Source?

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

If you want a god damn source look it up for yourself for once...

 

[Moonglow]

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?

Then I suppose he will not be paid by the US Treasury...The president is like a CEO, he runs the company yet does not own the company...

 

[PredFan]

Have you lefties gone so far overboard that you have absolutely no ability to use common sense anymore?

I can easily explain how a flight ban will keep Ebola from spreading, can you rationally explain how it will make things worse? Feel free to use the idiotic statements that the morons in the obama administration use.

 

[AmericanGirl05]

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?

Then I suppose he will not be paid by the US Treasury...

Treasury works for Obama too, you know.

Are you really this uninformed about how the Federal government works?

 

[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?

If you want a god damn source look it up for yourself for once...

Thought so.

Ok so Spain is the whole world now?

 

[PredFan]

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...

Partially right. Duncan came from Brussels. You are wrong about the nurses, they became infected after Duncan was in isolation for Ebola.

 

[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?

If you want a god damn source look it up for yourself for once...

Ok retard, I looked it up. ONE person in Spain was infected, a nurse, and she got it treating an infected person from Africa.

You don't have a clue what you are talking about.

 

[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?

Irrelevant.

You can't ban flights from a country into the USA when that country doesn't even have direct flights into the US. That's a given. It would be like building a dam where there's no river.

 

[Kosh]

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.

You can't ban flights from a country into the USA when that country doesn't even have direct flights into the US. That's a given. It would be like building a dam where there's no river.

Many African nations have direct flights do the US.

 

[HenryBHough]

No need for a travel ban.

Just require that all flights from West Africa discharge their passengers at the in-town DCA and give them free Metro tickets to McPherson Square station.

Problem will resolve itself with no further government interference.

 

[Katzndogz]

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.

You can't ban flights from a country into the USA when that country doesn't even have direct flights into the US. That's a given. It would be like building a dam where there's no river.

You ban the passport holders. That way they can't enter the country no matter what interim nation they came from. Ban passport holders and visas. Which is what every other country has done.

 

[Antares]

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 was appointed by Obama , he works at the Presidents discretion.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

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

Well yabut, who you gonna listen to?

Trained professionals or the guy on the WH lawn?

Or, the chronically ill informed, anti-Obama RW idiots here at USMess?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

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.

You can't ban flights from a country into the USA when that country doesn't even have direct flights into the US. That's a given. It would be like building a dam where there's no river.

You ban the passport holders. That way they can't enter the country no matter what interim nation they came from. Ban passport holders and visas. Which is what every other country has done.

Oh lordy.

Ban passport holders and visas???

You idiots just get more and more delusional every day.

 

[Plasmaball]

I am beginning to think Obama is not only incompetent but also diabolical.

Seriously.

Opening the borders and bringing enterovirus Enterovirus D-68 (EV-D68) that is making kids sick and killing some of them...and now rushing in airplane loads of infected ebola people from West Africa.....

and what do Americans do? take it........ and they like it too.

Nobody cares? Nobody?

i hope you get it.fucking bottom feeders who do nothing but whine

 

[Antares]

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.

You can't ban flights from a country into the USA when that country doesn't even have direct flights into the US. That's a given. It would be like building a dam where there's no river.

You ban the passport holders. That way they can't enter the country no matter what interim nation they came from. Ban passport holders and visas. Which is what every other country has done.

Oh lordy.

Ban passport holders and visas???

You idiots just get more and more delusional every day.

If said "passport holder" is coming from Liberia Via Belgium.....yup.
If you've been there you don't come here until you clear quarantine.

 

[Antares]

I love how open the Left is as long as it is theoretical.

Wait until one of their loved ones dies from it.

 

[Plasmaball]

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.

ah yes this line of thinking

 

[Plasmaball]

Obama hates the USA. This man can and will do whatever the fuck he wants and nobody will do a damn thing about it.

logical

 

[Katzndogz]

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.

You can't ban flights from a country into the USA when that country doesn't even have direct flights into the US. That's a given. It would be like building a dam where there's no river.

You ban the passport holders. That way they can't enter the country no matter what interim nation they came from. Ban passport holders and visas. Which is what every other country has done.

Oh lordy.

Ban passport holders and visas???

You idiots just get more and more delusional every day.

Its easy. Someone gets off an international flight and goes to customs. He hands over his passport to be stamped. On the cover of the passport it says Liberia. They get sent back. Someone in the Sudan goes to the American embassy and applies for a visa. He gets told no.

Every other country has been doing it for awhile now. It can't be that hard. It's so easy even an American can figure it out.