'National Security Priority' Being Taken More Seriously

In my last post I talked about how President Obama wasn't doing enough about the Ebola crisis. Well he has now amped up security at some airports. Center of Disease Control staffers will be at JFK in New York, Chicago, Newark in New Jersey and Washington Dulles. At these airports they'll ask the travelers where they have been and take their temperatures. Even though a fever is one of the first symptoms of Ebola it is also a symptom of malaria and influenza so this can be misleading. 

Airlines say that people on the same plane as someone who is infected with Ebola can't contract the disease because it can only be contracted through bodily fluids. No matter how much people say that it doesn't matter if flights come in to the U.S. from infected African countries I still believe that these flights should not be allowed in to the country. The best way to prevent a disease like this, in my opinion, is to do your best to make sure it doesn't enter the country. Obviously if we had done that in the case of Thomas Duncan we may not have had an outbreak in the U.S., which then led to Thomas Duncan's nurse contracting the disease. 

The Obama administration does not want to stop flights from West Africa because those countries screen people on their way out. CDC says that 77 people have been pulled out of line to board flights because of these screenings. Though this does make me feel a little more comfortable about the situation, I do not feel that we should rely on these screenings. I believe that we need to do as much as we can to prevent any more people from getting the disease. If we wait for the outbreak to die down then we can start to allow flights back in to the U.S.

Do you think these screenings are enough to control Ebola or should the protocols be more drastic?