Stop Ebola Flights
Contact the author of the petition
What about travelers and US citizens from these affected African countries who gain entry into our country via flights from Europe or elsewhere? It is not just the flights, it is the people who are carriers of the virus that we should be addressing.
When is the crisis in Africa considered over? Is that a time stamp declared by WHO or our own CDC?
Also, it should be understood that healthcare workers who choose to enter these countries (experiencing uncontrolled viral spread) do so at their own risk, and will not necessarily be retrieved/flown out.
National quarantine and containment standards need to be set into law to eliminate the risk of an intra-US outbreak, while our government also determines the safest foreign policy regarding the US border containment.
Re:
The Director of the CDC should step down! Clearly, he is incompetent as is his staff. What a total disgrace!
This comment has been removed by the person who wrote it.
Ebola threat
I'm delighted that Ohio has prepared for the worst. All flights should have been banned from Africa immediately and until further notice. Makes one wonder about how serious the president is.
Thanks for making the petition available. Dorothy Grappo
Keep us posted.
I put the Petition of my Facebook page.
Why is it that this common sense approach, stopping flights/people coming here from Ebola infected countries, is apparent to US citizens, but, not apparent to our Congress and our President??!! I believe that our President wants this epidemic to spread here (During the Bush administration, changes to our quarantine rules were written. Adoption of the quarantine regulations was delayed through the remainder of the Bush administration after an outcry from the airline industry, which was concerned with costs, and civil libertarians who worried about the rights of passengers. Soon after President Barack Obama took office, the CDC said it was “important to public health” to move forward with the updates. However, in 2010, the administration (BARACK OBAMA, BY EXECUTIVE ORDER!!!), formally withdrew the proposed regulations. At the time, officials insisted they were coming up with a new set of rules, but no such plan has ever emerged. No clear explanation was offered for why the process stalled out, but some experts believe that it came down to a lack of will. Despite the Bush and Obama administrations’ rhetoric to the contrary, some experts believe that many in the government did not view the matter to be as urgent as public statements suggested, particularly in the face of constituencies opposed to the plans. Our country, since the beginning, has quarantined sick travelers coming into our country...via Ellis Island...or turned them around and sent them home. I believe that OBAMA wants to "show Americans what it is like to live in a third world country"..."why should Americans be privileged and live without such threats to their health". I do not trust this President ONE LITTLE BIT!!!
if the numbers of those infected increase.It would be reckless and foolish to not take strong preventive measures now.
Bettie Kohl
This comment has been removed by the person who wrote it.
Great job, thanks!
Great job. I signed and I'm posting at estquodest.com
Pauli
The American people lost when you were not re-elected.
| This discussion has been closed. |