Enforce a 21 day quarantine and you won't be getting any travellers from ebola countries. Instead you'll get travellers from the neighbouring countries
Nope, because ALL neighboring countries have closed the borders.
Why can a country that borders on Libera/SL/Guinea close the border while a country half away can't? Care to explain that one?
or some convenient 3rd country where it's easy to switch flights. And no, there is no way to know who came from the ebola country.
Well, quite a lot of countries are cancelling flights so it will get harder and harder for that. And in fact it is possible to know from where one came - and if the person has a Liberan passport it's a no-brainer.
So some ebola-carrier would have to:
- take a flight to some moronic country that still allows flights
- fake a passport
- then take another flight under a different name
Seems quite unlikely. Also why should he take that hassle and not just stay in the first moronic country?
But for the sake of argument: OK, we may not prevent all infections but only the vast majority. Perfect safety is always difficult to achieve. But inperfect safety is still better than no safety at all.
So, why shouldn't we cancel all flights like Kenya and Nigera? Why shouldn't we implement a quarantine period like South Africa?