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.
But how do you stop the infected and not everybody else? How does the FAA find out if a plane has somebody from a hot zone? And what’s your time frame for the hot zone, in some of those places the situation is under control? Not to mention people we’re SENDING there do have to come back periodically.
You got one right, that is the only way to handle this issue. What you’ve missed is that “way” is functionally impossible and quite simply cannot be done in the real world where international travel is complex and we really have no way of knowing where everybody on a plane has been in the last couple of weeks.
It’s not what I think. It’s simple proven reality. We’ve 40 years worth of tracked history on ebola outbreaks, it doesn’t transmit well. This is a known fact.
Who said anything about trusting the government? I’m talking about being intelligent, understanding basic well published facts, and how this thing actually interacts in your life. The simple reality is that you will never in your life know a single person that has gotten ebola. Probably no one you ever know will ever know someone that has gotten ebola.
If it mutates it would probably mutate into being LESS fatal as well as easier to transmit. From an evolutionary prospective high mortality rate is actually very bad for a virus, it means it often kills its victims before transmitting. It’s so fatal because it’s a species jumper, and transmitting between people is not how it survives. It’s not nearly as fatal in bats. There is no Mr Walking Death, that is your paranoid fantasy that is not supported by 40 years of known outbreaks.