But you really can’t keep them out. We’re a nominally free country, sick people get to go places too. They shouldn’t but they do. And unless we know a person has ebola there’s really nothing we can do about it. The whole screening idea is just fanciful, not all sick people (even with ebola) get fevers, and we’re not stopping everybody with a fever from getting on a plane.
Just touching ebola isn’t going to make you sick. It needs to get in you. For the barefoot walking around thing you mentioned that means an open wound. I suppose maybe you could touch the bottom of your foot and then rub your eye. But it’s still a tough process, plus of course somebody needs to have oozed their ebola there in the first place. Which they didn’t.
Really just take responsibility for yourself. Don’t hang around sick people if you can help it, wash your hands. And understand it’s really not that virulent a bug. There are good solid practical reasons why more people die of the flu in this country every year than have died from ebola on the entire planet in all the time we’ve known about it. It’s just not that easy to transmit.
Sorry, but SH!T we cannot.
Those infected have NO Right to travel and infect everyone else. The FAA only has to give a denial to land to ANY plane with ANYONE aboard from the hot zone; any airline/plane that refuses to track/supply manifests...no landy either. That’s the ONLY way to handle the issue; one does NOT just go “Oh, we’re a Free nation, come on in and PLEASE don’t infect any of our Citizens”
Again, sorry, but you seem to think this epidemic is harder to catch than winning the lottery. You might also think about all the objects an infected would touch along the way: door/handles, counters, bins, overhead, tray tables, the TINY bathroom, etc. This is not just sweaty bare-feet, that is only ONE possibility.
With a high mortality rate *I* am not willing to take that chance. I’m going to trust gov’t to SAY ‘all is well’? Or that the airlines filter their air/clean the planes?
You’re right though, I don’t plan on flying anywhere anytime soon, but I’m not gullible enough to believe the virus WON’T mutate or that Mr. Walking Death won’t be an issue as long as I have Mr. Sani-Wipe and some soap.