Originally Posted by
nogods
That is where your logic hits the wall. Even if he was not allowed to return to the US because he had been in west Africa, all the 1000's of people he would have come in contact with on his flights and travels to and in any other country would be potential infected carriers of the disease to the US.
The suggestion that we can address the problem by prohibiting travel from a few countries is intellectual pissing in the wind. Trying to depict it as common sense doesn't help to overcome its delusional conclusions.
It's like the claim that if we don't teach teenagers about human sexuality, then teenagers won't have sex.