The special new air travel screening that we are seeing pop up all over the country is really little more than a Chemist warehouse twenty dollar digital thermometer and a lot of self-reporting. That charade is more theater than medicine, as Ebola has proven time and again, lying dormant well past the initial examination. The “enhanced” screening ignores the majority of the arrivals, and has a limited accuracy due to the incubation period of the disease, for the small minority of international arrivals who are screened.
it’s not air travel, it’s global mobility that is the vulnerability.
But what makes this the “enhanced” screening procedure absolutely useless or certainly 1 very small step above useless is that it relies so heavily on truthful answers to posed questions. And as we’ll know everyone lies. If you had a choice between getting into a country with our health system and not because you have a small fever I challenge any of you to say you wouldn’t lie your as the Americans would say “ass” off.
All governments but especially ours love to implement showy passenger screening changes for air travel only meanwhile completely ignoring qualified experts advice and charities on the ground pleading that intervention at the source by attacking the disease itself is the only meaningful intervention for this global threat.
That in a nutshell is the hopeless tragicomedy that is the “first world” public and government response to a deadly plague.
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