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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was all-for travel restrictions until I actually looked into it. Commercial airliners are the only real way to get equipment, supplies and medical personnel into the affected countries to stop this thing. Until it's stopped at the source, we are going to keep having incidents here. [/quote]

Can you please explain what you learned from your research?  I don't understand why we can't have the military fly in these supplies, or have the govt pay for the commercial flights to do this but NOT take tourists and business people.[/quote]

I'm not the poster you are asking but I've done some work in West Africa and have some experience with what sort of goods are on commercial planes (I once returned with 40 kilos of cashews). Large companies can afford charter planes or shipping containers, but small businesses often rely on using commercial airliners for transport. Without passengers, the commercial flight wouldn't be going. If the US military began running such flights, it would be entering the commercial shipping market or, potentially, providing free air freight for those businesses. The same is true if the US government paid for the commercial flights. That's just one aspect and there are many more ramifications of flight restrictions.
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I understand that it would be difficult, complicated, and have painful ramifications in people's lives and in the economy.

However, the situation in Dallas has also had painful ramifications and has negatively affected people's lives and the economy.  Look at what has happened in Wall Street, in the travel industry, and to dozens if not more workers and travelers who now have to self monitor, be quarantined, or fear passing on this illness to their families.[/quote]

Yes, the situation in Dallas was mishandled. But, based on current information, it has still be contained. Hopefully, we've learned from that experience and we won't need lots of drastic and damaging measures.
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We do not know that it "has" been contained yet.  [b]And they just UPPED the maximum incubation period from 21 days after exposure to 40 days after exposure until 1st symptons appear.[/b]

2 nurses contracted it.  Thomas Duncan was treated by approximately 70 nurses/attendants - while he was contagious.  Those nurses also treated other patients.  They are being tracked by the CDC.

On top of that, Nurse Amber potentially exposed 2 plane loads of people plus several airports (that was only after the CDC gave her the OK; She seems to have been very very careful to her credit & I wish her the best).

40 days is a long time.  In this case, time will tell if it is contained at all in the US.  But its too soon to say. [/quote]

Source?[/quote]

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