Australia instigates Ebola-prompted ban on travel from West Africa

[JadedBliss]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/australia-immigration-policy-ebola/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Halting visa applications from affected countries.
Suspending their humanitarian program.
Implementing mandatory quarantine.

Amnesty International is up in arms.

Critics are claiming Australia's ban is "draconian," "counterproductive" and "discriminatory."

 

[Skiddles2014]

Shut up, gump.

 

[JadedBliss]

Shut up, gump.

Wow. You sure put me in my place.

I was under the impression this was the proper board for intellectual discourse. Obviously I was mistaken.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Wow. You sure put me in my place.

I was under the impression this was the proper board for intellectual discourse. Obviously I was mistaken.

You seem to have a singular fascination with quarantines and disease. Is there something you want to share with us?

 

[domroger]

Wow. You sure put me in my place.

I was under the impression this was the proper board for intellectual discourse. Obviously I was mistaken.

Did you read any GB threads before you posted .

 

[Skiddles2014]

Wow. You sure put me in my place.

Good. Know your role.

I was under the impression this was the proper board for intellectual discourse. Obviously I was mistaken.

Obviously.

 

[Que]

If only they would put a ban on greenhouse gases. Now THERE is something to be worried about this week.

Panic about a deadly disease is far less important than your future air conditioning bill, bro.

 

[phrodeau]

Australians aren't protecting their own very well, either.

http://www.theguardian.com/environm...protection-plan-ignores-threat-climate-change

 

[Que]

Australians aren't protecting their own very well, either.

http://www.theguardian.com/environm...protection-plan-ignores-threat-climate-change

Yep... now THERE'S something to panic about this week, bro.

 

[warrior queen]

Australians aren't protecting their own very well, either.

http://www.theguardian.com/environm...protection-plan-ignores-threat-climate-change

With the exceptions of doing something about farming/environmental run-off and stopping dredge-dumping, the only way anything can possibly protect the reef is if the entire world suddenly decided to completely stop using any products that pollute every ocean and sea, and all the countries that currently over-fish illegally decided to stop.
Not gonna happen.
The reef is doomed, no matter what Australia decides to do.

 

[domroger]

With the exceptions of doing something about farming/environmental run-off and stopping dredge-dumping, the only way anything can possibly protect the reef is if the entire world suddenly decided to completely stop using any products that pollute every ocean and sea, and all the countries that currently over-fish illegally decided to stop.
Not gonna happen.
The reef is doomed, no matter what Australia decides to do.

Perhaps you are right .
But it does send the wrong signals to the rest of the world .
Australia will be blamed as no other country will admit responsibility .

 

[warrior queen]

Perhaps you are right .
But it does send the wrong signals to the rest of the world .
Australia will be blamed as no other country will admit responsibility .

One of the biggest threats is over-fishing, super-seiners that have come down from the Mediteranean and sit just outside the territorial limit of the East coast.
They are literally raping Australias fish stocks, but because they are 1 or 2 miles outside our waters there's nothing we can do.
When I was on our fishing boat, we'd see their lights constantly... and not just one or two. Once we counted 17 in one night.

 

[oggbashan]

The ban is political grandstanding.

The number of visas Australia normally granted to travellers from those West African countries was minimal. The new ban might after 50 people a year.

 

[colddiesel]

27% of Australia's population was born overseas, as high a proportion as any country in the world. As such we don't give a rat's ass what anyone else thinks of our immigration policy.

Most applicants have to be well educated to get in, which effectively excludes most Africans. Most migrants come from China and Europe though India is now a big source. There are even a couple of hundred thousand Americans- almost exclusively white Americans.

 

[Que]

With the exceptions of doing something about farming/environmental run-off and stopping dredge-dumping, the only way anything can possibly protect the reef is if the entire world suddenly decided to completely stop using any products that pollute every ocean and sea, and all the countries that currently over-fish illegally decided to stop.
Not gonna happen.
The reef is doomed, no matter what Australia decides to do.

Bullshit.

If every human simply held their breath the reduced CO2 would instantly chill the water and reduce the temperature by the same HUGE margin that it is currently increased by.

That, or get cows to quit farting.

 

[phrodeau]

Bullshit.

If every human simply held their breath the reduced CO2 would instantly chill the water and reduce the temperature by the same HUGE margin that it is currently increased by.

That, or get cows to quit farting.

http://now-here-this.timeout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Wrong-landscape.jpg

 

[warrior queen]

Bullshit.

If every human simply held their breath the reduced CO2 would instantly chill the water and reduce the temperature by the same HUGE margin that it is currently increased by.

That, or get cows to quit farting.

That's your solution?
I'm shocked that you're not on the environmental panel advisory board!

 

[oggbashan]

If only they'd ban all the arseholes who don't use deodorant too.

But, but... Using pressurised deodorant caused the hole in the ozone layer!

Smelling earthy is green.

 

[doowdniw]

If every human simply held their breath the reduced CO2 would instantly chill the water and reduce the temperature by the same HUGE margin that it is currently increased by.

Getting everyone to hold their breath for at least three minutes would solve a lot of the world's problems.