Is it just me, or did that op-ed smack of condescension? And Miller doesn't even have his facts right, I could have stopped reading after he cited 1500 cases. Don't get me wrong, I don't think WHO is any hero in this. But, the pooh-poohing of this outbreak is precisely what is going to get this virus spread in more countries. They act like it isn't going to be a problem anywhere, but Africa.
Then Henry Miller claims it's not all that contagious. Oh, really? Once again you need to practically roll around in body fluids or handle dead bodies. Again-- oh, really?
But it's LA Times, so what did I really expect?
The picture they have on there is a bit unnerving as well. The woman even looks like she is thinking "WTH?" The screener, without wearing gloves, looks as if he is about to touch that woman to take her temp. Is that not one of those laser thermometers? It looks suspiciously like a digital ear one. That can't be right, but it appears he is about to move her hair out of the way. ???
Just like our TSA fondle the genitals of hundreds of passengers wearing the same pair of gloves, I have to wonder how efficiently ebola could be transmitted from someone who had just become infectious by an ear thermometer...