(Real Clear Politics) Dr Ben Carson: ‘We Should Have Designated Location for Ebola Patients–Travel Ban Makes Imminent Sense’
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr Tom Frieden, appearing before a Congressional Committee Thursday according to FOX News in response to questioning about putting a travel ban into place from those countries in West Africa to the United States:
Frieden: The CDC knows “how to control Ebola” using “tried and true measures. ” That the government will “consider any options” to protect Americans however Frieden, continued to argue against a travel ban, over his apparent desire to “protect fledgling economies.”
Huh?
There is no inherent right of foreign nationals to travel into the United States.
Had Obama done his duty to protect Americans and imposed a travel ban from West Africa before the 26 year old Liberian man Thomas Duncan traveled into D/FW Airport Texas, in all probability the Ebola virus would not have arrived into the United States, infecting two Texas nurses with the deadly disease which according to the LA Times has a 70% mortality rate and which the World Health Organization warns that Ebola cases could skyrocket in weeks.
Who knows how many others have now been exposed in Texas and Ohio where 29 year old nurse Amber Vinson recently traveled and while exhibiting Ebola symptoms, boarded a Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland, Ohio this week potential contaminating and cross contaminating hundreds of unsuspected Americans.
When is the Obama Administration going to do their first duty to protect Americans by imposing a travel ban from those West Africa countries in which the Ebola virus has already killed thousands, instead of worrying about ‘protecting the fledgling economies’ of other nations?
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