Not Ebola. But it will be awesome to see every news team in America rushing to report someone throwing up in a parking lot.Merkin wrote:BREAKING: An entrance to the Pentagon has been closed and the south parking lot shut down due to an Ebola scare. According to WJLA, police found a woman in the parking lot sick and vomiting. She told police she had recently visited West Africa. This is the official statement from Lt. Col. Tom Crosson of the Defense Department: At about 9:10 a.m., Pentagon Police officers identified a woman in the Pentagon South Parking Lot, around lanes 17-19, who was ill and vomiting. Arlington County Fire Department was notified to respond immediately. During the response, the individual indicated that she had recently visited Africa. Out of an abundance of caution, all pedestrian and vehicular traffic was suspended around the South Parking lot, while Arlington County responded to the scene. At 0953, the individual was taken to the Inova Fairfax Hospital. Out of an abundance of caution and to allow the investigation to proceed, pedestrian and vehicular traffic around the Pentagon South Parking lot's lanes 7-23 will remain restricted until further notice. The Corridor 2 entrance to the Pentagon is also closed.
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So, can we talk about travel bans? The guy who brought it to Dallas came in through Europe. We obviously can't shut down all travel across the border, so what would a travel ban look like? No direct flights from Africa and no West African natives allowed? Maybe I'm being oversensitive, but the I'm not quite sure I like the optics of holding West Africans in quarantined holding cells at major airports and border crossings.