There are hundreds of arrivals from West Africa and Central Africa a week with fever.
I agree that they all will need to be screened. I will tell you that the capacity to “rule out” Ebola is very, very limited.
The need to test hundreds of people (most of whom or all of whom don’t have it) is going to cause major dislocations, fairly soon.
Along with WHO declaring this Ebola outbreak an International Medical Emergency this Friday, one news article included a past comment by MSF that there were already 60 outbreak hotspots. There was no reference to when MSF made this statement. That number verifies that the Ebola virus has outrun available medical help. Just not enough medical help available.
If each hot spot has a minimal medical team of 2 doctors, say 4 nurses, 4 or 5 burial/clean up personel, that's about 600 total right there. That raises the question of who exactly is monitoring all the arrivals. The photos of airport screens pointing digital thermometers at passengers does not inspire confidence. I've also noticed in some photos that some screeners have mouth and nasal filter masks, plastic film gloves, sort of wife beater film bibs, but their forearms are bare. There are photos of public chlorine solution buckets for hand washing. The problem is they have turn faucets making the whole excercise seemingly futile.
Seems to me that draconian responses are inevitable given the current state of affairs.
The need to test hundreds of people (most of whom or all of whom don’t have it) is going to cause major dislocations, fairly soon.
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Playing into the progressives’ plans of disrupting our society.