Not a travel ban, but definitely a quarantine. If an individual chooses to travel to high risk areas, that's their choice, but they should accept the inconvenience of quarantine upon returning home.
"He told the authorities that he did not believe the protective gear he wore while working with Ebola patients had been breached but had been monitoring his own health." 3rd U.S. Healthcare worker wearing protective gear to get infected.
Also, generally healthcare workers dealing directly with infected bodily fluid and living in infected countries would be seriously at risk of making a mistake. You have to remember that the vast majority of doctors working on this are safe.
At least doctors with the resources to follow the protocols. The CDC did update instructions on the way doctors should handle Ebola after recent events.
This event has no affect on my opinion. A travel ban would still be a mistake. The only way to rid the world of this disease is to strike it at its epicenter, West Africa.
To close our borders and hunker in fear would only give the disease more victims and carriers who will spread from country to country and such an action may even inspire panic among victims.
Closing our borders will have many serious repercussions towards our trade and diplomatic relations with other nations. Also from the perspective of how best to contain and eradicate the virus, if we seal our borders and hunker down in our own
country then we will be leaving the disease to proliferate and even mutate in West Africa, which perhaps you could care less about, but doing anything less than destroying this virus will make it become a long term problem. Then as people in West
Africa panic we could see the collapse of the governments in that region. What force fills that power vacuum could further destabilize the region and the world. In addition those seeking treatment could avoid travel bans by traveling to Europe and
then to the United States. So I can see a lot of good reasons to maintain our current position and very few reasons with plausible evidence to initiate a travel ban on Ebola stricken nations.
Every nation we cut ties with is another arrow in the heel of our economy. All based on paranoia about a virus that will never become a major issue in this country.
I think you're confusing an entry restriction by the French government with the corporation Air France suspending flights to Sierra Leone. It's also important to keep in mind Air France continues to fly to and from Guinea.
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