Comment Re:Meh.... Here's the thing ..... (Score 1) 294
Nobody wants to pay to properly quarantine and support people who have been exposed.
Especially when it's the nuts in the US talking about it. What would you do? Arrest them on landing? For what? If you don't arrest them, you can't hold them. Also, how do you identify where they came from if they come back an indirect path?
You quarantine them on landing. This isn't a crime, and quarantine isn't punishment. By all means compensate them for their time, feed them well, and so on. As far as not being able to hold them goes, you put them in a room and you lock the door - you might argue that it is illegal, but clearly it is POSSIBLE.
As far as identification goes - put the burden of proof on the passenger. That is how we contain other health problems like BSE. If you try to sell your meat in the EU, you have to prove that it ISN'T contaminated with BSE. If you can't prove that it is safe, then it is barred from entering the EU. Typically the burden of proof is satisfied by governments cooperating with each other and policing their own industry. If a government doesn't play ball, then other countries won't respect the certifications they issue, and then that country is basically banned from shipping cow-derived anything anywhere.
The goal here isn't to make travel convenient, it is to contain the spread of a disease. I don't see what the problem is with greatly curtailing air travel for a few months while the industrialized nations of the world make a heroic effort to clean up the mess in Africa, and then resolving to never let it get this bad again. While the travel of people would be greatly reduced, you could still ship cargo for the most part. Besides, most of that cargo goes by sea and the incubation time makes that a non-issue for the most part.