“This policy makes no sense. Since Ebola symptoms can take up to 21 days to occur you could have many seemingly well victims arrive here only to later on manifest signs after they have made contact with who knows how many people, a prescription for disaster. Yet this CDC chief thinks that banning flights wouldn’t help, nonsense. If you’re trying to have Ebola spread here then letting flights continue unabated from Ebola plagued countries will most likely accomplish that” Admin
Someone please PLEASE explain to me how this makes sense at all. Please.
Now, CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden, the guy who couldn’t even go two minutes without contradicting himself on CNN about how Ebola is transmitted, is now saying that if we restrict air flights from the Ebola-stricken African nations, it will “backfire” and cause Americans to somehow be exposed to the disease more here.
Wha…? Am I missing something here?
Here’s the clip via Politico:
“Even if we tried to close the border, it wouldn’t work,” the top health official added. “People have a right to return. People transiting through could come in. And it would backfire, because by isolating these countries, it’ll make it harder to help them, it will spread more there and we’d be more likely to be exposed here.”
How exactly does that work?
How would it spread more here if it isn’t coming here on a plane — the fastest method of global travel commercially available — from the countries where it is spreading out of control?
Governments could still send in special flights to send aid. The Pentagon is already talking about sending 4,000 soldiers now instead of the initial 3,000 Obama originally ordered.
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