2nd nurse's Ebola case may have been worse than thought

[Warren DeMontague]

32. And like I said, I think it's incredibly unlikely anyone on those planes will catch it.

Still, a low possibility is still a possibility. I'm glad they're going with the absurd abundance of caution, because it's clear (again, after months of bland assurances as to how ready the US was for this) that there was at least some measure of carelessness around this stuff at the beginning. That's how we ended up with 2 more cases, or how we ended up with Duncan being left in a public waiting area (on his second trip to the hospital) with other patients.

Do I think anyone will get sick from those airplanes? No.

Does that mean I would feel super-duper comfortable if I had sent a messy child who tends to touch everything, into that airplane bathroom right after this woman had taken a poop, as people on airplanes are sometimes wont to do?

No, I'd be pretty fucking upset. Which doesn't mean I think there was some high level of risk. A low level of unnecessary risk for some horrific outcome, is still too high.