Public supports travel ban to block Ebola; CDC and White House push back

[uppityperson]

32. Some are, note that word SOME, and plenty are saying we ahould send no aid, spend no

money to help the area of the epidmic. Yes, reading comments innewspapers, even my local ones, on facebook, taking to people on real life, yes. There are those who say do nothing to help, send no health careprociders, no equipment or supplies, no educators, no guards, spend no money on anyone, any country who would help.

you seem to have misunderstood my last sentence. The masses are easily scared and yes, there are plenty who do npt believe in science like evolution. Those are the ones I personally know who are saying do nothing, blockade the area and let it "burn itself out".

Thank you for understanding and being frustrated by dichotomous thinking as it is very frustrating to read.

Banning people from the 3 affected countries in W Africa would have saved us from Mr Duncan coming to visit his family and marry his love. Instead, they might have joined him in, say, Canada, or. Euro country. And he would have exposed who knows how many people in flights, other airports, some of whom might even, gosh darn it, be USAnians on vacation. Restricting visas will stop a lot of healthy people, a few unhealthy, from 3 countries entering our country. What about Spain, since ebola is now there? Should the USA continue adding banned visas as ebola shows up other places? Infected and infectious Usa doctors would be allowed back? Would they need to be quarantined first, to make sure they were healthy or just let in? Or only restrict people from the 3 countries?

I am amused that you call people who have reasoned out the problems with such a ban "reflexively anti-ban" as it indicates people who are pro-ban have carefully thought it out, where people like me only act or think reflexively. Way to elevate the discourse.

I have read calls to ban all travel out of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia. Aside from them being soverign nations, there is no way to do that as people travel by foot, by auto, by boat as well as air. On DU, in papers, on social media. Blockade the whole country, let no one out. I am glad you agree, or excuse me if I misread you, that that is an unworkable idea.

So, how do we stop the outbreak at its source? And of course that is the only way to do it. Spend money, time, people to locate, confine, treat those affected. The sick, their contacts. Educate people so they do not hide their sick, do not use unsafe practices with their ill and dead. LOTS of money, time, people, equipment.

The one positive thing that happened by having MrDuncan in the USA is it brought home, no pun intended, how serious this could be. I wish there were more tv programs, more media coverage, of how awful health care conditions are in the 3 Wafrican countries, how different their societal ways are, how it is contributing to the outbreak and what positive steps our huge and comparitively much richer nation could take. It might help counter those calls to "blocke them in and let it burn itself out" and the outrage that the usa is sending soldiers to help build hospitals.