re: Why are/were US airlines flying to Liberia during an Ebola outbreak?

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I'm sorry, but I'm not buying that. Until they develop an effective vaccine, no one should be freely traveling to and from that area without strict oversight.

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OK, lemme splain something to you people. This is a AIDS redux. Back in the day we did not allow people with a communicable disease to enter the U.S.

Then AIDS hit in the 80s because Ronald Reagan wouldn't say "AIDS." If he had said "AIDS" it would have ceased to exist.

But the AIDS advocates successfully lobbied to lift the ban of HIV positive travelers who wanted to come to the U.S.

The logic was as follows:

a. The US has the greatest capacity to cure the disease. This is before Obamacare.

b. The US citizenry must be mobilized to support research to find a cure. Most US citizens considered AIDS a self inflicted problem.

c. The people won't rally behind the movement unless AIDS hits the US really hard. Fear.

d. The more AIDS patients in the US the more research subjects available.

e. The more AIDS patients in the US the more international AIDS researchers will flock to the US.

Keep in mind, AIDS started in Africa. No one cared until it hit the developed world. Same thing with Ebola. There were Ebola outbreaks in Africa before. No one here cared. So, now we gonna care because it's in Dallas, Texas.

Any questions?