"… somewhere a leftwing blogger might accuse the administration of racial profiling."Holman Jenkins: Why No Ebola Travel Ban? Politics - WSJ - WSJ
By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. Updated Oct. 29, 2014
… West Africans are learning too: how and when transmission is likely
to occur; that a 10-day window exists before symptoms become observable;
that their survival chances are much greater in a Western hospital;
that they would be unwise to mention any contact with Ebola patients
until safely in the arms of Western medicine.
So far the only cure for Ebola comes from the patient’s own immune system, and there’s
hope infection rates are slowing as the virus works through those in
poor immune health or whose genetic make-up renders them vulnerable.
There’s a related dynamic in politics. Liberals whose attitudes are
generally a minority taste (as surveys tell us) are especially
vulnerable at election time, and, sure enough, nature has sought out
that vulnerability repeatedly in the case of Team Obama.
The Benghazi attack came just before the 2012 election. Ebola arrived just
before this year’s midterm, which in the minds of the administration and
perhaps nobody else means that any travel ban on West Africans is
unacceptable because somewhere a leftwing blogger might accuse the
administration of racial profiling.
The only evidence we have for
this theory, admittedly, is the pre-emptive ranting about a “racist”
response to Ebola in blogs and publications the administration cares
about, including the New York Times. We also have the administration’s
wholly unpersuasive arguments for why it won’t block private West
African arrivals from the most afflicted countries.
Politicians are experts at camouflage …
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