TMCTLT wrote:Pull your head from your Ass and look around you, because this statement in incredibly wrong headed.
And just for the record....this Isn't terrorist monitoring were talking about ( but then you knew that ) ALL countries have a Vested interst in sharing THIS information....talk about an idiot
ALL countries may have a vested interest... so?
Does that mean they all use the same system for maintaining passport information? Can you get that information to disseminate to all the other countries so a database can be maintained by all?
Seriously... this is what you're talking about here:
1 - You have to assume that anyone leaving any of the infected west africa countries does so through a channel where their passport is checked (the instant someone walks across a border in one of the countries... which have less secure borders than ours.. their home free).
2 - If they fly to a 1st world country from any of the west africa countries, that 1st world country would have to enter the information on the flyer into that database with the understanding that the individual is not going to leave their country until the epidemic is over (because hey, once you're on the database, you're not gonna be able to fly anywhere else, because you want all the countries to restrict flights for anyone on the "no fly" list... that's kind of the purpose of it). That doesn't provide any incentive for them to adopt that program. the list only has value when someone else has entered the information.
3 - Assuming that country decides to let them in, that passport information has to be entered in a database at whatever country they've entered, in a manner which can then be accessed by every other passport system around the world. Countries haven't standardized immigration systems...
4 - If you're even able to get this system is in place, individuals from west africa aren't going to be able to fly anywhere directly, since that country would be stuck with them. Since they can't fly from their home country, they are better off using ground or sea transportation to a country no longer on the "no fly" list. Then they're free to move about the world. you complain constantly aobut our border with mexico being too porous, the countries out there aren't as sophisticated as we are.
Doesn't anyone out there remember the mass refugee exoduses that have occurred in that part of the country because of wars? Thousands of people just pick up and walk to the next country... if you don't keep ebola under control in those countries you'll see the same problem happen. Except some percentage of those refugees will be vectors. That will allow the disease to essentially spread to every country without a major physical barrier (water, desert, mountains).