I'm a nurse and I've possibly been exposed to Ebola and I think I maybe should be quarantined

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14. I'm so glad this virus isn't *easily* transmissible

Because we would be living through a horror movie if it were transmissible before people were symptomatic. What all seven billion of us would be going through if that were so is, almost literally, unimaginable. As it is, the ball has been dropped repeatedly because humans are humans.

I think it would be extremely helpful if airlines would institute a no-questions-asked policy towards people who ask to reschedule flights if they're not feeling well (or for heaven's sake if they've been exposed to Ebola in any way). Without knowing for sure whether Thomas Eric Duncan realized that there was even a tiny tiny tiny chance he had Ebola when he was asked on his way here (I personally think he must have had some idea that he was, at the very least, exposed if not infected), I can't help wondering whether a person traveling from Liberia, where income is lower than it is here and airline tickets commensurately even more of an investment, might have had an incentive to simply roll the dice. I myself doubt that he had a 100% clear conscience, but he also realized that nobody would have thanked him or compensated him if he'd decided not to travel, had to reschedule at his own expense, and turned out to be completely well. I think that a penalty-free refund or rescheduling policy from the airlines would have been extremely helpful in his case and in the nurse's case as well.