The Caribbean and Colombia ban entry of travelers from Ebola stricken countries

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A group of Caribbean countries have announced bans on entry to foreigners who have travelled through the three West African countries most affected by Ebola. Jamaica said it would not accept travelers from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone for the time being. Read full article

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lsolde
l fear that it may be too late.
But ALL flights should immediately be grounded to & from West Africa.
lt looks like the Genii is already out of the bottle.
Oct 18th, 2014 - 12:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Nevada George
The common sense thing to do is protect your citizens
from infection .... period end of conversation.

However, EVERYTHING in the US becomes a political issue
and nothing gets resolved.

Approximately 30 African Countries have instituted travel bans.
What is the US doing?... calling up reserve military and getting
ready to send them to the infected countries as support for the
3500 that have already been sent there...STUPIDO

http://www.openeyesopinion.com/ebola-travel-bans/
Oct 18th, 2014 - 03:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
(1) Isolde..., dahling
How very easy to be tough on West Africa from a Malvinas Pom perspective...
Look...!!! Ebola on Cruise Ships...!!!:
“http://en.mercopress.com/2014/10/18/ebola-scare-reaches-cruise-industry-carnival-vessel-barred-from-mexico-and-belize”

Are you suggesting that we cancel ALL cruise ships to them windblown Islands, babykins?
Oct 18th, 2014 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
I think the Prime Minister of St. Lucia is being open, honest and eminently sensible.
If you know in advance that you do not have the capability to deal with something of this scale, prevention is the only cure.
Oct 18th, 2014 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
http://healthland.time.com/2014/01/27/cruise-out-of-control-the-13-worst-norovirus-outbreaks-on-cruise-ships/

Ther are about 350 norovirus cases per infected vessel.
Imagine if one ship picked up an Ebola instead of a Noro.
300+ deaths and the destruction of the worldwide cruise industry.
A REAL plague ship.

No great problem of infected people landing for carnival because they feel so lousy.
They would stay in cabins and just bleed to death..

But if they did land ........
Oct 18th, 2014 - 05:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
(5) Geoff.... Geoff....

Always so paranoid...

Now you will tell us that those stupid, ignorant camel herders from ISIS & al-Quaeda could be so cunni to fetch some “Ebola Infested Material” (Read...: A dead Nigga) somewhere in West Africa and send some of their Mujahideen waiters and cooks to convert them nice white cruise ships in veritable cruise missiles....

How many was it the Spanish flue pandemic killed in 1918?
Some 100 million, wasn't it?
Oct 18th, 2014 - 05:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
I have re-read Isolde's post @1 several times and can find no reference to cruise ships whatsoever.
Flights yes, shipping no.
I am I missing something here. Or is that other poster just being a goady fucker!
Oct 18th, 2014 - 06:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
I think you've been reading Michael Creighton thrillers, Think.

Fly-cruise is the way to go. Miami to everywhere.
It only needs one nurse or squaddie to take their partner on a welcome home cruise after serving a spell on the West Coast of Africa ... R&R becomes something else again.

No, not paranoid - realistic. This is so much more than 'flu'.
Oct 18th, 2014 - 06:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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lsolde
@3 Think,
Yes Thinkus, old chap.
Whatever it takes.
lsolation is a sure way of stopping the spread of this virus.
lf in your paranoid mind, you like to think(something that you don't do too much of!)that its being “tough”on West Africa, then thats up to you.
What would you like to do, Think?
Let this virus into your country & kill millions of your countrymen just to show the world that you're not being “racist”to West Africa?
You really are a plonker if you even contemplate that.
Poland in the middle ages was spared the Black Death because they isolated themselves from the rest of Europe by a scorched earth policy.
lt worked.
You can be so stupid sometimes Herr Think.
Oct 18th, 2014 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
(9) Isolde, honeybunch...

You sound so pretty when you are angry...

Chuckle chuckle.
Oct 18th, 2014 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
@ 10 eww! Creepy old perv alert!
Oct 19th, 2014 - 12:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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lsolde
Behave Think.
Oct 19th, 2014 - 10:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
@12
Good Luck with that!
urgh! Get a Restraining Order, or a shotgun perhaps?
Oct 19th, 2014 - 02:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Troy Tempest
11 ilsen

It's pretty obvious that when Think writes to Isolde, he only has one hand for the keyboard.

A real creep
Oct 19th, 2014 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
Eeeewwww!
Enough already!
Oct 19th, 2014 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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