Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Obama wrong on ebola in a mere 2 weeks Date:   10/3/2014 12:17:56 PM

My sister got in from Germany last night.   She said that Customs was worse than usual with people coming in from Africa being questioned intently about their exposure to illness.  Remember about 10 years ago we went through something similar with Asians coming in with that respiratory SARS that they were eventually able to screen for.  I don't have much faith about people being honest about their own, or exposure to illness.  They want to get here so they can get treated.  My view is that we should have a temporary moritorium on flights coming from those African countries.  Right now they are saying that you can't get Ebola unless you are directly exposed to bodily fluids of someone who is infected, but given the cattle call that air travel is these days, why take a chance? 

I don't blame this Administration for EBOLA any more than I blamed the Bush Administration for SARS.  But once again this raises the point that this country does  not  have adequate policies and controls in place to deal with these situations.   Just the panic alone could overwhelm our medical infrastructure and if there really was a major crisis, what could be done?