No, its job is not to protect everyone from everything...Its role is quite limited. My contention being even that limited job is forsaken to their god of Liberalism (border SHOULD be shut, flights grounded/denied landing). Anyone truly believe a damn questionnaire and a thermometer as going to stop an epidemic??
Ebola has been found in bodily fluids...that INCLUDES sweat, mucus, etc. I say “Oh, you have to also have a cut..” defeats the whole “They shouldn’t be IN the friggin’ line” to begin! THEN, saving to possibly SIT next to the same (whom may fever [sweat more], sneeze, wipe their nose)....Yeah, I’d be feeling SO much more ‘secure’ w/ the gov’t ‘protections’ in place.
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.