O'Reilly: Ban U.S. Entry From West Africa For Three Months

by JASmius



.....at least:

"I would not allow west Africans to come into the United States, and it's easy to track it because of passports and visas and things like that, for probably three months initially," O'Reilly said Wednesday on his program.

Guest and Fox Business Network host John Stossel called that "overkill."

"You've got 140,000 people flying from that part of the world," Stossel said, pointing out that Ebola isn't easy to catch.

Oh, yes, it is, John.  You've heard of mutation, yes?  Have you not wondered how an outbreak under two months old that is already the largest and deadliest in history could kill as many as 1.4 million people in West Africa by the end of January?  And if it's spreading at that rate over there, and whole countries are closing their borders and quarantining themselves, does it not stand to reason that we should bar entrance to our country to anybody attempting to come here from or through there, for whatever reason?  Just as a precaution, until it's proven that the epidemic has been halted and is under control?  Especially seeing as how it's already over here and has started spreading through our population as well?

You don't dick around with virulent infectious diseases, John.  And we are not obligated to allow anybody into our country for any reason.  It's long past time a lot more Americans understood that, and started asking themselves why the Obama Regime is so hell-bent on doing the precise opposite.

Stossel also said that although 3,000 people have died in west African countries since the current outbreak began, that is still a relatively small number compared to deaths from other diseases.

"The flu killed 3 million people. Do we keep people out of the country because they might have the flu?" Stossel asked. "So we're going to shut down more than 100,000 people because one man has been found to have Ebola and given it, as far as we know, to no one?"

You take this one, Bill.

"Yeah," O'Reilly responded. "I would absolutely, for the public health risk . . . say nobody from west Africa gets into the United States. Sorry."

There's no entitlement to foreigners to come here, temporarily or permanently, John.  And it's the duty of the federal government to protect the States and the people - i.e. American citizens - against "invasion," including the importation, hostile or accidental, of infectious diseases by outsiders.

I don't know about you, but I'm willing to inflict some transitory hurt feelings upon the people of west Africa in order to protect myself and my family against drowning in our own blood, and the economic and societal breakdown that a pandemic would induce.  Assuming any survive theirs.