{"id":6797,"date":"2014-10-17T01:38:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2014-10-17T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T01:38:09","slug":"no-travel-ban-from-w-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6797","title":{"rendered":"No travel ban from W. Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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President Obama’s critics on the right are going to hit the ceiling — if they haven’t already — with news that the president has declined to impose a travel ban from West Africa into the United States.<\/p>\n

The Ebola “outbreak” has many Americans scared. Well, the disease certainly has overwhelmed medical professionals in West Africa, but hardly here.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/other\/white-house-rejects-calls-for-ebola-travel-ban\/ar-BB9nv04<\/p>\n

Why not impose a ban?<\/p>\n

Obama believes the advice of the top medical minds in the world that a ban won’t do any better than what’s being employed now and it could be counterproductive by forcing people to hide from authorities in West Africa, thus, allowing the disease to go untreated.<\/p>\n

Airport screeners at Atlanta, Washington, Newark and New York are taking temperatures of passengers coming off planes arriving from Ebola-stricken places. It’s a no-touch technology that enables screeners to use laser lights to record people’s temps.<\/p>\n

Those who have greater-than-normal temperatures are then separated and examined more carefully.<\/p>\n

Once again, the call here is to avoid panic and undue anxiety.<\/p>\n

Two health-care professionals in Dallas have been exposed to the virus. They are being treated by the best medical teams anywhere on Earth. Still, many in the media — as well as some in Congress —\u00a0have been proclaiming some sort of imagined “epidemic” of the disease in this country.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t exist. It well may never<\/em> exist.<\/p>\n

How about letting the medical pros do their job?<\/p>\n\n

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Wait for it. President Obama’s critics on the right are going to hit the ceiling — if they haven’t already — with news that the president has declined to impose a travel ban from West Africa into the United States. The Ebola “outbreak” has many Americans scared. Well, the disease certainly has overwhelmed medical professionals … Continue reading No travel ban from W. Africa<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[540,1507,4892,5222],"class_list":["post-6797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-ebola","tag-travel-ban","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}