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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Never, EVER in my life did I think I would agree with John Boehner about anything ever, but yes to this assertion:

"A temporary ban on travel to the United States from countries afflicted with the virus is something that the president should absolutely consider along with any other appropriate actions as doubts about the security of our air travel systems grow".

Obama keeps saying that a pandemic is inevitable if we don't treat people in West Africa and, yes, we absolutely need to address the illness over there.  But why the HELL are we also not keeping out travelers who've been in affected areas without instituting a quarantine.  What the hell is the CDC thinking ????  [/quote]

Same here, PP, same here.

Some people say that we didn't have Ebola outside of West Africa all year - why "panic" with just one traveler and a few transmissions?

Because the Ebola cases in West Africa are reaching a critical mass soon!  -if the predictions are right, and there are 10,000 new cases A WEEK there soon, we will only be able to control it fast enough with quarantine and it will get worse before it gets better.
This quarantine has to be a GLOBAL agreement to limit travel into high risk areas.
It is temporary.  If strict quarantine is not feasible for whatever reason, travel needs to be extremely limited.
Before it's too late; meaning that we will be overwhelmed with cases and contact tracing.

We can be overwhelmed quite easily, we only have 11 beds at the 4 highly specialized hospitals and it will be hard enough for regular hospitals to CARE FOR A SINGLE Ebola patient. It is critical that we do the right thing now.

I'm a healthcare professional, and I'm not happy these days with the CDC, or our response on a local and international level.
Not happy at all.    [/quote]

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