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FortWayne says

We are supposed to work to eradicate this disease now, not wait till it's everywhere and costs are astronomical.

Who says we're not?

turtledove says

I don't even think they need to do that. Travel arrangements are all computerized. They can tell who bought a ticket and from where. They can tell the country of citizenship.... as well as the country of origin. It's not like you can get on a plane without proper ID anywhere in the western world. It took us about a minute to figure out where the first Ebola patient connected from in order to get to Dallas. I don't think it all must boil down to some customs officer reading through all the departure/arrival stamps.

Actually it does. There isn't some huge central database of flight records across the world. . What you are talking about is called passenger name records. These are records in huge databases that keep the itinerary of a single trip. These databases are scattered throughout the major booking agencies and airlines. There is no central database for this other than records sent to DHS. If someone books with say sabre or galileo then there is a record at the booking agency (the master record) and at each airline. If someone books directly with the airline then only the airline has the PNR. Plus it only covers one itinerary or trip. If someone books two flights then there is no common record between them. There is an agreement in place between the EU and the US to exchange PNR records but no one else exchanges with the US or the EU. PNR records are sent to DHS 15 minutes before a flight takes off. Any flight originates outside of the EU or US (like all flights from west africa) would not be known to DHS or any other US authority. It took about a minute to look up the inbound flight from Brussels. The originating flight was only known because Duncan told the authorities about it.

The country of citizenship wouldn't matter other than actual Liberian, Guinea, and Sierra Leone citizens, very few of whom are travelling to the US. Aid workers, UN and NGO officials, reporters, etc. are a lot more likely to be a problem. Obviously they won't be on a west african passport. Since you couldn't tell the originating flight you would have to look for stamps on every single page, in every single passport at every single international airport. Including all the podunk ones. That's assuming the passports were ever even stamped and the stamp is legible. That's sometimes pretty lax in some third world countries. I've got a few totally illegible stamps in my passport. Not the vaguest clue what country they were from.

FortWayne says

They said the same damn thing about AIDS, no one thought it would spread. But it did, and now it's everywhere.

I've got to ask. Do you actually live on the planet earth or is there an IP provider on Mars? Hiv/Aids was very widespread before it was even identified. People were dying in substantial numbers of odd diseases and no one know why. It took years after that to actually identify it. I was working as a stagehand in NY in the 70's and early 80's. I got to see it a lot more than I wanted, including in an ex girlfriend. Very scary stuff in the days before the antiretroviral drugs were developed.

Translated: "You earned yours, but I'm too fuckin lazy and/or stupid to earn mine so i want a chuck of yours given to me"..

Vicente says

We are now a nation of home-schooled anti-vaxxer "I got mine fuck you!" fundamentalists.

Fascinating what will pop up when you hit the "random" button on Patnet. Hard to believe how hysterical got over what 4-5 cases in the US?

This thread should serve as a remind how intentionally petty Liberals can be.
Thank God we've got Trump panicking them, they had to divert their attention from giving White Republican Older males a heart attack with their constant Liberal Gay Dick in your face Psyops.

Tenpoundbass says

This thread should serve as a remind how intentionally petty Liberals can be.

Those liberals keeping flights/travel open, guaranteeing treatment/return/aid to those volunteering to go, and stopping the Ebola outbreak from spreading. Bunch of petty assholes. CDC WHO and all the medical emergency response apparatuses were able to do their jobs. FAKE doctors! I don't need them to tell me I have Ebola if I'm sweating profusely and bleeding out my ears! Cowards! They re all in the pocket of big pharma' anyway. Really, this was always a politically correct help the Africans and get nothing back bleeding heart move!

What shit-hole countries. They should have just all died.

Trump will have us cowering in our homes with tapped up windows if this happens again, like Americans should! God bless the USA!