> My guess is that 99% of these cases will turn out to either be a common illness or a case of nerves ...
But at the rate unscreened potential carriers are arriving, that could still multiple hot cases per week, each of which will be ignored, bungled or otherwise dealt with imperfectly. Retransmissions are likely to already be in progress on confirmation.
And the other 99% false alarms are phenomenally expensive, every time.
And with the very first case of retrans happening pretty much as the pessimists predicted, and happening to a healthcare worker in full PPE (which I would not have predicted), we’re looking at public safety and healthcare workers who are gonna think long and hard about whether the risk is worth it.
Agree with everything you said. Just noting that I will guess that 9 out of 10 Freep threads on “so and so in (insert State here) taken to hospital with symptoms” will turn out to not be Ebola.
Of the 4000 Liberians entering each month, how many are going to exhibit flu-like symptoms this winter? It's going to be a long winter.