Should Trump Be Blamed For Any Ebola Carrying Congolese Entering the Country?

By Robert Wenzel

The latest scare story is that Ebola-stricken Congolese are crossing the border into the United States.

There are many ways to look at this story. The first is just the nature of Ebola.

According to the Center for Disease Control, Ebola symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after contact with the virus, with an average of 8 to 10 days.

According to the World Health Organization, the disease symptoms can be sudden and include:

Fever
Fatigue
Muscle pain
Headache
Sore throat

This is followed by:

Vomiting
Diarrhoea
Rash
Symptoms of impaired kidney and liver function
In some cases, both internal and external bleeding (for example, oozing from the gums, or blood in the stools).

So think about this for a moment.

The journey from the Congo to the US border can take months, reports The Washington Post. It starts by crossing the Atlantic ocean and landing in South America than trekking by bus or by foot up to Mexico than to the US border.

There is no way that someone infected with Ebola is going to survive this trip.

But here is the thing.

The new mad dash to the American border is the result of the bombastic focus on the border by Combover man.

Every person in the world who has ever thought of trying to find a better life for himself by trekking to the United States is probably thinking, "Now is my last chance to get to the US before they close the border."

Create urgency is taught in Sales 101. People act when they think the door is closing and Trump is creating the urgency by his idiotic demands of Mexcian authorities about the border.

On top of this, Trump and his border patrol green shirts have slowed processing at the border, thus creating a greater incentive for border crossers to find illegal methods across the borders. A massive border smuggling business of illegals has developed.

Without the slowdowns at the official border crossings, these smuggling businesses would have never developed. The Congolese, assuming they would have even tried without the Combover man created urgency, would have never been able to cross the desert on their own without the Trump-inspired smugglers. They would have crossed at the official borders where they could have been properly monitored (and perhaps put in quarantine for 21 days).

From beginning to end, the increasing intensity of the border patrol problem must be laid at the feet of the immigrant-hating commander-in-chief. He appears to have an inability to understand that the very nature of man is such that it fights against unnatural restrictions. He has no appreciation of free markets, free trade and free people. His attempts at restricting free actions will result, as they always do, in a worse situation and crisis.


Robert Wenzel is Editor & Publisher of EconomicPolicyJournal.com and Target Liberty. He also writes EPJ Daily Alert and is author of The Fed Flunks: My Speech at the New York Federal Reserve Bank and most recently Foundations of Private Property Society Theory: Anarchism for the Civilized Person Follow him on twitter:@wenzeleconomics and on LinkedIn. His youtube series is here: Robert Wenzel Talks Economics. More about Wenzel here.