Obama Weekly Address: Banning Travel From Ebola Infected Countries Wou

[John Adams]

And we have been told this is the smartest man to ever be President.......Wow, just wow......

Obama Weekly Address: Banning Travel From Ebola Infected Countries Would “Make Situation Worse” (Video)




In his Weekly Address on the Ebola outbreak Barack Obama argued that banning flights from West Africa to the United States would make the situation worse.

Yes, he actually believes this.

From the president’s Weekly Address (October 18, 2014)

 

New screening measures are now in place at airports that receive nearly all passengers arriving from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. And we’ll continue to constantly review our measures, and update them as needed, to make sure we’re doing everything we can to keep Americans safe.


Finally, we can’t just cut ourselves off from West Africa, where this disease is raging. Our medical experts tell us that the best way to stop this disease is to stop it at its source-before it spreads even wider and becomes even more difficult to contain. Trying to seal off an entire region of the world-if that were even possible-could actually make the situation worse. It would make it harder to move health workers and supplies back and forth. Experience shows that it could also cause people in the affected region to change their travel, to evade screening, and make the disease even harder to track.


So the United States will continue to help lead the global response in West Africa. Because if we want to protect Americans from Ebola here at home, we have to end it over there. And as our civilian and military personnel serve in the region, their safety and health will remain a top priority.

 
Dozens of countries have already banned all direct flights from the Ebola infected region.

[BOBRI123]

From Rhode Island alone there is 100 to 150 people a week traveling to and from infected area's  !

Prohibiting travel to infected area's would benefit the people in general and Obama can'y bring himself to actually serve the people !




BOB  RI    123

[sweetwater5s9]

http://foxct.com/2014/10/16/the-ebola-message-everyone-needs-to-hear/

[Truman62]

And what would you do if your state were quarantined?

Since you Repocons are just sooooooooo smart, you would try to get out, right?

After all, you aren't sick, right?

Even if you were, well you need help, and you ain't gonna get it in no quarantined state, right?

Soooooo you deserve the right to go somewhere else to seek treatment, right?

And if others get sick, well it's their own damn fault, right?

So things would be sooooooo much better with you Repocons in charge, right?

No, I don't think so.

[sweetwater5s9]

Duncan had been helping Ebola patients in Liberia. Liberian community leader Tugbeh Chieh Tugbeh said Duncan was caring for an Ebola-infected patient at a residence in Paynesville City, just outside Monrovia.

The New York Times reported that Duncan had direct contact with a pregnant woman stricken with Ebola on September 15, days before he left for the United States. Citing the woman's parents and Duncan's neighbors in Monrovia, Liberia, the newspaper said Duncan had helped carry the ailing woman home after a hospital turned her away because there wasn't enough space in its Ebola treatment ward.

Yet on a health screening questionnaire, Duncan answered "no" to questions about whether he had cared for a patient with the deadly virus and whether he had touched the body of someone who died in an area affected by the disease.

Nurses and other health workers on the front lines of Ebola face greater risks in West Africa, where news reports indicate volunteers are using improvised masks and suits to try to protect themselves from the often-deadly virus. It's killed more than 100 health workers in Liberia.

That country says it needs 80,000 body bags and nearly 990,000 protective suits in order to adequately fight the epidemic, according to NBC News.

And they face gruesome scenes as they combat the disease.



http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/health/ebola-2014/index.html