The New York Times had an article about the grand new tactic of taking temperatures of African arrivals at five US airports. Even they admitted that measure could not possibly catch more than a very few of those who might be suffering from ebola, and that it was mostly started to help avoid panic.
Our government is too stupid to realize that all their almost useless measures, nonsensical statements and reassurances on the issue is what's most likely of all to cause panic in the public.
The temperature taking bit is so stupid I have to think about it for a minute to comprehend just how far the stupidity goes.
So you find an infectious person what then?
What about all the people who have been in the sealed aluminum tube with him for the last many hours? What about them now?
Are you going to send the person back to where he came from in another sealed aluminum tube with other persons?
Who pays for the treatment and where and how is it done?
Such obvious stupidity will not go without horrible consequences.