<p>To keep the other thread more to the fact, I’ve started the thread. feel free to vent and keep other thread to discussions to the point. Thank you.</p>
<p>Issue a travel ban today and in 21 days the hysteria will be over. Most of the false alarms also. </p>
<p>What’s the point of issuing a travel ban just to quell hysteria…especially if it doesn’t actually do anything to reduce the spread? As awntcdb is quick to point out, there are economic costs to all of this.</p>
<p>A travel ban on who? Everybody flying from west africa? Every single health care worker who has contact with an ebola sufferer? </p>
<p>I agree that the hospital in Texas appears to have screwed up big time on this. </p>
<p>Actually, CDC with its flawed protocol appears to have been the BIG screw-up. Their protocol doesn’t follow the gear that their head person wore when HE was in an ebola-infected zone. I’d say the fault starts there, but I’m sure there is blame that can go around too.</p>
<p>A travel ban Would reduce the spread. It has not spread to the African countries, which one would expect, due to their travel bans. A travel ban would reduce the number of 100 plus per day coming into the U. S. to a tiny few who could somehow figure out how to sneak in. What would they do? Fly to Toronto and walk through the backcountry to the border? Fly to Mexico and cross the desert? Yes, obviously people do do this. But its Much more difficult than flying to Brussels and catching the next connecting flight to Dulles.</p>
<p>Does this mean we ban flights in and out of Texas, too? I mean, it’s now a “hot spot” so…</p>
<p>“A travel ban Would reduce the spread.” </p>
<p>One passenger out of all the passengers from the affected area since this latest outbreak started and all the previous Ebola outbreaks before this combined. One infected person. </p>
<p>I am not seeing a problem which necessitates a ban on people from this area traveling. It’s a great talking point though. </p>
<p>A travel ban from every country? You don’t think someone from Liberia can get to Germany or Spain or Morocco? You want to shut down the world, stop every operation dead in the water? </p>
<p>How can the US shut down Liberia’s borders? Send in the army? Think about this. </p>
<p>And get your flu shot and encourage all you know/ Far too many will die from flu this year.</p>
<p>As the US has NO flights from Liberia or West Africa to the US, what flights should they shut down? This makes no sense. Agree that getting flu shots is a great idea–we got ours as soon as they were available at CVS and even got a 20% discount coupon to use on other purchases in CVS. H got the high dose & I got the regular. Got my folks to get their high dose vaccines too!</p>
<p>Maybe we need a thread with the title, “I’m not worried about Ebola.”</p>
<p>One who infected two which caused a couple of hundred to have to monitor for the disease which closed schools, a hospital ER, apartment buildings, airplanes, and on and on. </p>
<p>The difference with Texas is that we know who was potentially exposed and as the CDC director belatedly said, they shouldn’t be traveling. We don’t know who has been exposed for those in the African hot zone. </p>
<p>Even the CDC director had no answer as to how the U. S. could be hurt by a travel ban.</p>
<p>“Even the CDC director had no answer as to how the U. S. could be hurt by a travel ban.”</p>
<p>Because we wouldn’t be hurt by a travel ban. The countries having the outbreaks would be hurt and the longer the outbreak in West Africa goes on the more at risk the whole world becomes. </p>
<p>Travel ban is not the same as flight ban.
Things we could do include a temporary hold on most types of visas from Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia which would stop some of the possible vectors. Also we should restrict travel of US citizens into the hot zones unless they are part of an Ebola mission.</p>
<p>This thread should be titled “Ebola: Travel ban yes or no?”</p>
<p>^^We could also talk about school closings.</p>
<p>This belongs on the hysteria thread: </p>
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<p>Oh for the love of pete. Shutting down schools for THAT?! Give me a break. </p>
<p>Here, schools won’t close when there’s the threat of frostbite (which one student at my high school got and sued the school for…) but they’ll close it down because a teacher was “perhaps on the same aircraft”?? </p>
<p><a href=“Ohio steps up Ebola protective measures after Amber Vinson visit”>Ohio steps up Ebola protective measures after Amber Vinson visit;
<p>I honestly don’t understand how a travel ban would work exactly. We already have no flights directly from West Africa. What is there to ban? Do we hire people to thoroughly vet where people have been before they board any airplane for the US from international soil? Even if we were to do that, what would stop people from flying into Canada or South America and crossing our border in some other method (not flying)?</p>
<p>As Frugal Doctor indicated, people can go by land to other places from West Africa and not be from one of the currently known “hot spots,” but still have spent considerable time in a hot spot and bribery and corruption is rife there.</p>
<p>As a practical matter, it seems it would be public health theater to implement a travel ban, causing more people to lie about whether they have had any exposure to West African hotspots and make things even more confused and worse than they are now.</p>
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<p>It almost just defies belief, doesn’t it? So an entire school is closed basically because a teacher had contact with someone who was on that plane but has shown zero symptoms of ebola. Yeah, let’s just completely let science and reason go out the window.</p>
<p>What a complete waste for those students. Hope we have a nice winter so that they don’t lose even more time due to weather and flu-like symptoms. </p>