Friday, October 17, 2014

Travel ban

In the article " Ebola Hot Take of the Day: Travel Bans Would Make Things Worse. Let's Do Them Anyway." by Jason Linkins, is about banning travel between the US and West Africa. There are talk about banning any Ebola- related flight, by banning travel will contain the disease in Africa, where there is an actual outbreak. But by isolating countries that have the outbreak will put more burden on those countries, and increase people fear. Travel ban doesn't help containing the disease nor cures it. Even those that want to impose travel ban like Marc Siegel admitted, "travel ban against the Ebola- afflicted countries will be particularly effective, it may even be counterproductive…..isn't coming from the strongest side of what being an American means." I disagree about travel ban if we are going to ban every flight and isolate us from Africa; we might as well ban everyone from Texas and all the other states that have someone infected with Ebola. No one can go in or out of these states and will probably shut off our country. So instead of educate everyone about Ebola and how to be caution our government talk about travel ban, lets the news use Ebola to increase their rating. We're doing a great job at scaring people and running away.

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