Do Quarantines Work ???

There has been a lot of gibberish in the MSM concerning why persons from the Ebola outbreak area should not be quarantined.

Really?

What does the CDC website say about quarantines in general?

Isolation and quarantine help protect the public by preventing exposure to people who have or may have a contagious disease.

http://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/

Did quarantines work for the "Spanish flu" outbreak of 1918?

[The study] found that cities that early on adopted "old-fashioned," non-pharmaceutical interventions — such as school closures, social-distancing in the community and workplace, and quarantine — and "layered" multiple interventions at once for a long period of time fared better than other cities, with slower rates of infection and lower rates of death.

http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1650634,00.html

So ... sometimes quarantines do work.

But we're not asking for an Ebola quarantine. We want a travel ban that does not allow people from the Ebola outbreak area to enter the US.

They can't swim here. They have to fly or come by ship. Shut the air and sea ports and they can't get in.

How hard can that be?

Perhaps the key to this controversy is contained in the phrase "social-distancing in the community and workplace" from the Time article referenced above.

It appears that the highest priority of the US government and Obama ad-Dajjal in particular is to minimize the stigma associated with Ebola virus disease instead of implementing strict measures to prevent spread of the disease.

Once again ... in the US dogma triumphs over rationality. Let's not "offend" anyone, even if it means that other people will die.

Dumbasses.