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The strawman liberal in your head sure appreciates the advice.
Don't worry man, admitting you have a problem is the first step...I'm not saying that it is a bad thing to have emotions, but to rely on them for political answers never works out well for you libs...As you get older you'll realize that.
This is a phenomenally stupid idea.
That WAS pretty much the point. Stopping all flights into the US is ALSO a phenomenally stupid idea. But as long as we're panicking, let's go all the way and shut down our economy for 21 days.
That WAS pretty much the point. Stopping all flights into the US is ALSO a phenomenally stupid idea. But as long as we're panicking, let's go all the way and shut down our economy for 21 days.
Not all flights, just those originating or connecting from the affected countries...
Big deal. Duncan wasn't displaying symptoms until days after his plane trip.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/22/health/ebola-up-to-speed/index.html?hpt=hp_t2New travel restrictions in place
All U.S.-bound passengers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea must land in one of the five U.S. airports with enhanced screening for Ebola: New York's John F. Kennedy International, Washington Dulles, New Jersey's Newark Liberty International, Chicago's O'Hare International and Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta. More than 4,500 people have died from Ebola from those three West African countries.
Travelers from Ebola-affected countries to be monitored for 3 weeks
All travelers coming from Ebola-affected areas will be actively monitored for 21 days starting Monday, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden announced in a telebriefing on Wednesday. Contact information including email, two phone numbers and a physical U.S. address will be gathered from all people coming to the United States from Liberia, Guinea or Sierra Leone, Frieden said.
Not all flights, just those originating or connecting from the affected countries...
Yet you want a travel ban from the Govt. It is all so confusing to me.
No one's calling for that. They want to stop all flights from African countries effected.Stopping all flights into the US is ALSO a phenomenally stupid idea.
So you can shut down those countries economy when they are struggling with ebola?
No one's calling for that. They want to stop all flights from African countries effected.
But, there are NO flights from the 3 countries to the US, neither non stop, or same plane service.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/n...-bellevue-hospital-in-new-york-city.html?_r=0NYT said:Patient in New York City Tests Positive for Ebola
By MARC SANTORAOCT. 23, 2014
A doctor in New York City who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea tested positive for the Ebola virus Thursday, becoming the city’s first diagnosed case.
The doctor, Craig Spencer, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday and placed in isolation while health care workers spread out across the city to trace anyone he might have come into contact with in recent days. A further test will be conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control to confirm the initial test.
While officials have said they expected isolated cases of the disease to arrive in New York eventually, and had been preparing for this moment for months, the first case highlighted the challenges surrounding containment of the virus, especially in a crowded metropolis.
Even as the authorities worked to confirm that Mr. Spencer was infected with Ebola, it emerged that he traveled from Manhattan to Brooklyn on the subway on Wednesday night, when he went to a bowling alley and then took a taxi home.
The next morning, he reported having a temperature of 103 degrees, raising questions about his health while he was out in public.
There are such things called "Connecting flights".
NYC welcomes their first Ebola case
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/n...-bellevue-hospital-in-new-york-city.html?_r=0
Ignorance run a muck. Let's start with the fact that LaGuardia is a domestic airport. They aren't likely to deal with anything more contagious than a tick on a plant in the baggage of a flight from Colorado carrying Lyme disease.
Banning flights from Africa is also complete silliness. We inbound 150 persons per day from Africa
http://www.newsweek.com/state-depar...ne-would-only-create-35-permanent-jobs-228898
...many of them, including Mr. Duncan, do not enter the country on flights from Africa but connect in Europe.
People are starting to lose rationality. They are far more likely to be gunned down by a gunman in a movie theater or mall or die in a carjacking than die of ebola.
So, what is the cost of truth?
Another Leftie who is supremely confident that they are immune to Ebola..... Why?
Not same planes, people connect.
Not worried about the NYC doctor, nor should anyone else be.
I don't think it is the actual fear of widespread outbreak that get's people worked up, as much as it is the arrogant dismissal succinctly portrayed in this post right here.
Thank you for admitting that West Africans are traveling to the US via connecting flights.Not same planes, people connect.
Not worried about the NYC doctor, nor should anyone else be.
Tell you what, you can go and wave your arms and scream and yell and panic all you want.
I won't. We will see who wasted their time in 6 months.
No one was saying that...But, you're attempt to just be aloof about it, as though you think you're better than those that are concerned is just plain foolish. That's my opinion.
Not aloof, just logical
Lefty's don't fear science nor the boogeyman. Righty's ignore the real threats, because they fear science.
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Of course, we all have our irrational fears.... mine is sharks (I practically went into cardiac arrest when I encountered one off Tortola... even though I scared him as much as he scared me)... But Sharks are nearly 4 times the risk of Ebola.
March 22: Guinea confirms that a previously unidentified hemorrhagic fever, which killed over 50 people in its southeastern Forest
Region, is Ebola. One study traces the suspected original source to a 2-year-old boy in the town of Gueckedou. Cases are also
reported in the capital, Conakry.
On 17 August 2012, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo reported an outbreak of the Ebola-Bundibugyo
variant[123] in the eastern region.[124][125] Other than its discovery in 2007, this was the only time that this variant has been
identified as the ebolavirus responsible for an outbreak. The WHO revealed that the virus had sickened 57 people and claimed 29
lives. The probable cause of the outbreak was tainted bush meat hunted by local villagers around the towns of Isiro and Viadana.
In a year, in Africa, it has gone from 1 case in March, to 10,000 new cases a WEEK in October.
That's not correct. The latest Ebola Situation Report from the World Health Organization reported a cumulative total of 9,936 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases through October 19. The October 12-19 period saw 939 new confirmed, probable, or suspected cases.
Ebola could hit 10,000 cases per week in Africa; U.S. steps up response
William M. Welch and Rick Jervis, USA TODAY 7:26 p.m. EDT October 14, 2014
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa could reach 10,000 cases a week and U.S. health officials are promising dramatic response to any new domestic outbreaks that signal intercontinental spread of the deadly virus.
The Centers for Disease Control will send a rapid response team to any hospital in the nation that diagnoses another Ebola patient, director Tom Frieden said Tuesday.
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