// (aircraft are notorious for spreading germs / diseases etc)?//
bowed to public pressure without thinking things thru..
little joke first to lighten the mood
"that should be think fings flu " - yeah china flu see?
2nd - the authorities have learnt - erm yeah
well perhaps form Ebola where the head of PHLS - very quiet this time I can tell you - leaked that a doctor had forged one of the temperature charts to show normal at an airport- and a whole load of carers were suspended and struck off
The glasgow ebola case was where a nurse rang up 111 and said I think I have ebola and was given the advice
yeah well come into cas on de bus !
this caused chaos when they realised what had happened and fingers were pointed at the most junior people involved
3rd here is a really long paper on ebola screening
what did it do and what was it meant to do? focus group research
https://gh.bmj.com/content/3/3/e000788.full
4thapparently they are not sure if you can get it from people or only from a dead cat - really they should know by now ....
and finally - airplanes are not incubators of deadly diseases.
The TB outbreak which really got them going - the traveller croaked seven days after flying - oo-er MRs - the infected contacts were from the eight people ringing her. three in front =three behind and one each side.
this virtually proved that the air con had nothing to do with it