[Lnc-business] Quarantine

[Alicia Mattson]

Don't forget that platform plank 3.4 includes the sentence:

"However, we support control over the entry into our country of foreign
nationals who pose a credible threat to security, health or property."

That is more relevant to the Thomas Duncans of the world than to the nurse
from Maine.

But I agree with Scott that a key element here is at what point people with
Ebola become contagious, and we don't really know the answer to that, so I
don't think we should attempt to stake out a position on something we don't
understand.

When we did a press release blaming the Ferguson incident situation on
racial profiling as a part of the drug war, we didn't yet know that the kid
had just strong-arm robbed a convenience store.  When the rest of the story
became known, we looked silly for having spoken in ignorance.

-Alicia




On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Scott L. <scott73 at earthlink.net> wrote:

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> Considering that the United States  Centers for Disease Control  doesn't
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> http://nypost.com/2014/10/30/cdc-pulls-poster-saying-ebola-can-spread-through-a-sneeze/
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> I don't think the National Libertarian Party should take any position on
> how to deal with Ebola until the mode of transmission and the incubation
> period are, as best as possible, definitively decided by medical scientists.
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> I especially do not want the National Party to straightjacket our
> candidates into a single position on an issue on which there is nowhere
> near a consensus within the libertarian movement.
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>    Scott Lieberman
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> “Philosopher and historian William Durant once said "Nothing is often a
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> good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say."
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> When there is something on the horizon, many people very early cry "We
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> have to do something!"  as if doing something that makes the situation
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> worse is preferable to waiting for more information to make a wise
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> Rahm Emanuel said "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And
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> what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you'd think you
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> could not do before."
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> I suppose I would like a statement like:
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> "We do not have enough information yet to determine the best policy
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> decisions.  Everything we know so far is that although there is a
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> great deal of fear, the actual risk is vanishingly small.  The
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> important thing to do in this situation is to take reasonable
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> precautions while gathering information, and resist efforts of those
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> who would use a crisis to take advantage of the fear to grab power and
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> infringe on our freedoms in ways they could not do before."
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>    Marc Feldman”
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