Someone, somewhere in my country, decided it was a great idea to continue air travel between ebola infected countries and the US. That bureaucratic POS and all who agreed with him/her should be held personally responsible for any and all Americans who get infected, whether they die or not. Said POS and company oughta be dipped in the ebola virus and quarantined, untreated, until death ensues. All their worldly goods and finances donated to the ebola affected innocents who where told to "trust the government, there's nothing to worry about".
Squawk all you want about not banning travel to/from these countries, or bringing infected peeps here for treatment. ANY innocent who dies as a result of these policies will be for all practical purposes, murdered by our government. A few must die for the sake of the greater good? Bullshit I say. We need accountability in this country, as of now it is nonexistent.
There's a thread floating around here about some dude who got fined by TSA for a few loose rds in his carry on, what'll happen to the cocksucker/s who let Mr Ebola into the US? Prolly get promoted for being such a kind and understanding .gov employee. Just what the holy fuck is wrong with this country?
RANT OFF!!!
The problem with your rant is you are not looking at the big picture, and that's usually the problem with most of us who do this part time. That's why we have experts. And even though they are not perfect, they spend more time looking at those issues than we do. Just like we here spend more time looking at precision rifles than most people do. So typically even when wrong those experts are in a better position to make decisions than we are. Case and point you know more about guns than let's say a random senator, which is why we complain they shouldn't be making gun laws.
Well, we do the same thing on this board by acting like we know more about these things than the people who think about this day and night outbreak or not.
Here is a problem. You close off the border, and not only people can still fly to other countries and then fly here. You also can't close the country to the whole world, or the US economy would collapse, and you would be here blaming your government for unemployment and the like. But also stopping flights between them and us, would also prevent US health workers or US citizens who get infected overseas cannot come home.
It would stop people going there to help from going, and since Africa cannot deal with this itself, the problem will grow worse, and eventually you would have to seal off not only West African flights, but the whole country. Which again will collapse our economy because this is a globalized world. Stocks dipping, people losing their pensions, meanwhile africa gets worse.
The most immediate problem however is that such an act would collapse West Africa's economy. I remember a few weeks ago Israel freaked out economically because we stopped flights for 24 hrs to Bengurion.
Should West Africa's economy collapse, the whole continent will start to tank because West Africa is its engine. Africa tanks, and you get more failed states, more instability, terrorist safe havens which will be problems to deal with later, and which will bring you back here to complain in another thread. So the folks making those decisions have a broader chess board to look at rather than making short sighted decisions. It might not make sense to someone who does this part time, but the world is a complicated place. The risk has to become so great that we are willing to deal with the residual problems of closing those borders. Right now 1 infection, and the potential of isolated travelers carrying an infection that can be handled, just doesn't tip the balance. There are much more dangerous things lurking around your house right now than this. They are not failing to close those borders because they are all evil, or somehow you are smarter than them. A person once made fun of me, asking: "Why do you aim 12 inches to the right of your target into the void"? How do you expect the bullet to magically curve towards your target?
To them it didn't make any damn sense, and if you think of it from a lay person's point of view, it doesn't make any sense at all! But as a shooter you know why. Their failure was not to look at the big picture, and recognize that there are variables i.e wind, which they did not think about but which are substantial in this case. Now may be I should have aimed 10 inches off instead of 12, but my position even when mistaken is more likely correct or closer to correct than one who doesn't know much about shooting in this case.
How many other experts are calling for the borders to be closed? The problem is we regard everyone else as either ill-willed or evil. Some of those folks we blame lose sleep over trying to protect us. Some are corrupt I ll concede that, but others are honorable, and spend their life studying those things and are trying to do it right. The US is the greatest country in the world, so our leaders aren't all crap, or we would be a third world country, and the fact that we are the best, shows what some of those experts know what they are doing. And sometimes we need to pass the ball to the ones who can play.
