What’s more is the fact that there is a failure to acknowledge if measures like remote sensing thermometers or fever checks work, like they didn’t for both this doctor as well as Duncan. And as it turns out, the “unprofessional” idea of quarantining people off the plane is a good idea.
If anything, this shows that quarantining people off the plane is an unnecessary idea. As awful a disease as Ebola is (and it is as bad as it gets), it is difficult to transmit, particularly in a first-world setting, with first-world sanitation and first-world medical care.
