My wife's grandmother spent a month in quarantine at Ellis Island. Measles. With her two children. Grandfather came here and worked for 5 years to save up enough money to pay their passage.
We used to have strict immigration requirements for health. What changed besides political correctness? Is it the volume? Too many, so we don't do anything?
We are talking here about a natural epidemic. (I hope). What the hell are we going to do about a bio attack? Some guy with a vial of smallpox up his butt?
I think we are ruled by bozo's who simply do not have a clue about anything. They don't have any ideas except regurgitating their PC college talking points- they have never actually had to THINK and SOLVE any problem with real life consequences save for manipulating others viewpoints. Their sole meter of success is political opportunity.
I am reminded of the sort of commanders who rise to prominence during peacetime, only to be found utterly incompetent under combat conditions.
You attribute to
incompetence what, at this point, ought to be ascribed to
malevolence.
What will happen if it is
Americans are on the receiving end of bioterror is quarantine at the point of a gun, with the shooter riding a milsurp MRAP. *expletive deleted* ck you if your kid is stuck at Chomo Elementary.
We have see this all before:
1. Arab muslim terrorists bring down 3 planes and hit the WTC and Pentagon. Increased scrutiny of Arabs & muslims? Restriction on travel from the country where most of them hailed? Nope. Restrictions on Americans. TSA. Sexual assault of American children at the hands of gov't. Forcing non-ambulatory elderly folk out of their wheelchairs and adult diapers.
2. Fed.gov wants to track terrorist commo. Does the TSA and Co focus on Arabs & muslims? Nope. Hoover up the commo of every American.
3. Improvised bomb at the Boston Marathon. Rally the citizenry to look for the dudes? Nope. Confine the inhabitants of hte city to their houses and patrol like it is Fallujah on the Charles, sweeping one and all with their tacticool-guy weaponry.
Given the choice to inconvenience foreigners or hack at the roots of American liberty, our gov't will break out the felling axe.
Every. Damned. Time.