Horse is Out - Close the Door!

The infected person died late yesterday, but this hit the news just prior to death:

• The Dallas County prosecutor is considering whether to file criminal charges against Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who traveled from Monrovia to Dallas, where he was diagnosed with the deadly virus last week.
  
  “We are looking at whether he intentionally and knowingly exposed the public to the virus,” said Debbie Denmon, a spokesperson for the Dallas County prosecutor’s office.
  
  “It’s the issue of holding someone accountable, that you can’t just get on an airplane and lie on a travel document and get to the United States and lie on a hospital document,” she said.

Actually, you can just get on an airplane. You can just lie on a travel document. You can get to the United States. You can just lie on hospital documents. This guy did all of that. Then you can die and leave behind 80 people being monitored for further spread of a virus.

A first responder is currently under observation in Dallas. He never met or touched the infected party - he just went to the infected apartment, and he's been on the loose for a week or so. Hopefully, this is a false alarm.

And how are the national powers-that-be reacting? Temperature checks:

• Federal health officials will require temperature checks for the first time at five major American airports for people arriving from the three West African countries hardest hit by the deadly Ebola virus. However, health experts said the measures were more likely to calm a worried public than to prevent many people with Ebola from entering the country.

Gee, a completely ineffective response from the feds - who would have thunk it? This "screening" can be defeated by simply taking a couple of Tylenol mid-flight. ::Poof!!:: Fever gone! Then just lie on a few forms, lie to a few interview questions and you're free to infect hundreds, thousands, tens-of-thousands.