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Originally posted by: pjstrohQuote
Originally posted by: alanleroyII
So as I understand it there are three main objections to the commercial travel ban.
1. Victims will go around it and come here anyway.
2. It prevents much needed people and material from getting to the impacted areas.
3. It will hurt the economies of the impacted countries.
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1. If they can't come by air, they will likely die before they get here.
2. Travel to and from impacted areas should be handled by the US military not commercial air travel. It should be a far larger effort than is currently planned and include a system of quarantine for returning travelers.
3. You've got to be kidding.
Whats the common sense solution for uninfected US aid workers, volunteers and visitors who are in Liberia today? Tell them they are never allowed to return to their country of citizenship until Ebola has been wiped off the face of the earth? Do tell. And if Italy doesn't impose the same travel restrictions we do then what is to stop people from traveling from Liberia to the US via Rome? I suspect that's why the senior advisor to the health at the Council of Foreign relations says your solution is a myth.
But Hey! I give you credit, Alan. You posted statistics from informed people. Good for you. You've officially one-up'ed Jatki, Don Diego, and Boilerman.
1. Why on God's green Earth would PJ want 'US aid workers & volunteers' to return from the front lines of the Ebola war on a commercial airliner?
They should fly on charter planes or military transports that follow protocols for sanitizing and potential contamination. They should go to quarantine upon their arrival. Of course they are allowed to return...but of course they shouldn't fly on a commercial flight. Duh...They know that. They know what they signed up for. They don't want to take any chance of infecting their fellow Americans with this scourge. They are the real heroes.
2. What is to stop people from traveling from Liberia to the US via Rome? People entering the US need something called a Visa....and I'm not talking about a credit card. We will deny visas to people who are coming from a hot spot until they make it out of Quarantine or have an Ebola test. Once we ban commercial travel from those places, they are probably just going to stay in Italy anyway.
But hey...I didn't say that banning commercial travel from Ebola Hotspots is a 100% barrier to entry, did I? If we can't completely stop it from entering, then we shouldn't even try to slow it down? Is that PJ's 'Rome' argument?
And like I said earlier, with great disagreement in the healthcare community about the travel ban, it is just common sense to error on the side of caution. Why do you insist on throwing caution to the wind? Because your 'experts' say it's safe to allow commercial travel while other 'experts' say it's stupid? That's just not good enough.
