Originally Posted by MILES58
Originally Posted by Rovering
Originally Posted by DigitalDan
Well fugg, we import everything else, why not a virus or three, hey?

Gotta ask a simple question here. How easy would it have been maybe a month or three back to block travel between the U.S. and Africa or regions therein until this chitt settles out?

Fed right the fug up with the Federal Government.


Only travel from the infected region needed to be block.

Aid, researchers, and would be do-gooders could have still be allowed to travel to the Ebola region. Those going in would just have had to go for the duration.


Yeah, right! And do tell how we prevent someone who wants to come here because we appear to have better medical treatment available and they decide to come by way of Zaire, Namibia, Mozambique and South Africa?

We cannot manage a secure border across any single state in the southwest. How do you propose we manage to lock down a much, much longer boundary, most of which is jungle and please tell us while you're at it just how many troops you'll need to do this and how we keep them on duty and where all those hazmat suits will come from?

THIS is why it's in our best interest to put that fire out over there as quickly as possible.


Central Africa has no indigenous aviation capacity. In all of Africa only RSA has any entirely indigenous aviation capacity, and it is not intercontinental. Planes, spares, and almost all ATC and pilots are from outside the region. An FAA followed by an ICAO flight restriction instantly leaves them no means of rapid travel to spread Ebola.

A raft made from oil drums and old Chevy station wagons isn't going to get them from Liberia to America, certainly not in time to spread Ebola.