Its theater.

They stand no chance of stopping the spread without actually stopping travel.

No.

It is sure to feed the media some good opportunities to run fearmongering pieces.

While the thought of someone who is showing symptoms of Ebola just hopping on an international flight is scary, the odds of that were already somewhat low. What many people are worried about (myself included) is the possibility of asymptomatic carriers travelling to other countries and then developing the symptoms (and becoming contagious) after arrival. This is precisely what happened in the Duncan case, and yet these are precisely the sorts of cases that the screening procedures are likely to miss. We must also consider the case of the nurse infected in Spain-- she originally had to insist on being tested for Ebola because even though she was feverish, her fever measured slightly below the official WHO guidelines.

I agree. This is an attempt to seem to be doing something about a perceived problem without actually affecting the situation in any significant way.

But we will hear about everyone with the sniffles that goes through one of these checkpoints. They will quarantine people when they need something scary to put on the news.

Complete security theater.

The NBC cameraman and the NBC crew with Snyderman went through a fever checkpoint just days before the fellow fell ill. Fever checkpoints are ridiculous. A retention period for monitoring would be better.

They'll say they will be, but I doubt it. It seems like this is something they want to happen, because it's a great crisis and you "never let a good crisis go to waste."

We'll see fancy vids on the primetime news of people in airports with Predator Vision© and it will look fancy as fuck. Once it's shown that the fever checks don't work, people will not really want to fly or travel for awhile, which is a great way to get the cattle to herd themselves together without you having to do much besides play some programs on TV and say it's the truth.

Remember all of the put options on the airlines? I could actually see that as a possible strategy again for TPTB to make some quick cash on the hysteria when airline stocks inevitably drop. Maybe?

Oh, young padawan, here it comes!

A ridiculous amount of 'put' options were placed on the airlines most affected by the 9/11 Official Story, which are stock bets that the price would fall. Here is a quote from Allen Poteshman, in the Journal of Business in July of 2006. There are plenty of mainstream sources that reported this 10 years ago as well. Good summary in his Intro:

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, there was widespread speculation that the terrorists or their associates had used advance knowledge of the attacks to profit in the financial markets.1 Much of the attention focused on the trading in the days leading up to September 11 in options written on American Airlines (AMR) and United Airlines (UAL), the two companies whose planes were hijacked and crashed by the terrorists. Since the value of a put (call) option is decreasing (increasing) in the price of the underlying stock, the put‐call volume ratio is a common measure of the extent to which positions established by option market trading will profit when the underlying stock price falls rather than rises. It is commonly believed that a typical put‐call ratio is in the neighborhood of one,2 and according to the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) Web site (http://www.theocc.com), the September 10 put‐call ratio for AMR options was 6.09 and the September 6 put‐call ratio for UAL options was 25.4.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/503645

Investors have yet to collect more than $2.5 million in profits they made trading options in the stock of United Airlines before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to a source familiar with the trades and market data.

The uncollected money raises suspicions that the investors -- whose identities and nationalities have not been made public -- had advance knowledge of the strikes.

"Usually, if someone has a windfall like that, you take the money and run," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Whoever did this thought the exchange would not be closed for four days."

"This smells real bad."

San Francisco Chronicle, 9/29/2001:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Suspicious-profits-sit-uncollected-Airline-2874054.php

Here's Fox News:

"The suspicion is that inside information about the attack was used to send financial transaction commands and authorizations in the belief that amid all the chaos the criminals would have, at the very least, a good head start,'' said Convar director Peter Henschel.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2001/12/17/german-firm-probes-final-world-trade-center-deals/

Here's what the 9/11 Commission reported regarding the put options:

Highly publicized allegations of insider trading in advance of 9/11 generally rest on reports of unusual pre-9/11 trading activity in companies whose stock plummeted after the attacks. Some unusual trading did in fact occur, but each such trade proved to have an innocuous explanation. For example, the volume of put options—investments that pay off only when a stock drops in price—surged in the parent companies of United Airlines on September 6 and American Airlines on September 10—highly suspicious trading on its face.Yet, further investigation has revealed that the trading had no connection with 9/11.

http://web.archive.org/web/20041020144854/http://www.decloah.com/mirrors/9-11/911_Report.txt

See line 131.

But don't worry, that same day, the SEC temporarily eased regulatory restrictions allowing securities to clear upon maturity without normal checks by invoking Section 12(k);2:

k) TRADING SUSPENSIONS EMERGENCY AUTHORITY (1) TRADING SUSPENSIONS .—If in its opinion the public interest and the protection of investors so require, the Commission is authorized by order— (A) summarily to suspend trading in any security (other than an exempted security) for a period not exceed ing 10 business days, and (B) summarily to suspend all trading on any national securities exchange or otherwise, in securities other than exempted securities, for a period not exceeding 90 calendar days.

(2) EMERGENCY ORDERS (A) IN GENERAL .—The Commission, in an emergency, may by order summarily take such action to alter, supplement, suspend, or impose requirements or restrictions with respect to any matter or action subject to regulation by the Commission or a self-regulatory organization under the securities laws, as the Commission determines is necessary in the public interest and for the protection of investors—

Securities Exchange Act of 1934:

https://www.sec.gov/about/laws/sea34.pdf

Edit: formatting

Remember the 'footage' of planes hitting the towers? Do you think it's a coincidence that the impact zones at both towers included the offices of Garban Intercapital, Cantor Fitzgerald, and Eurobrokers, three of the largest securities firms in the nation who allegedly have ties to the alphabet organizations. Flight 175 hit just below Eurobrokers (missed by 5 floors), and Flight 11 struck close to Cantor Fitzgerald's offices. Due to the eased regulatory restrictions and chaos of the day, an estimated $240 billion in securities was cleared, upon maturity, on September 12th.

It's unfortunate that is isn't more well-known, but after 13 years the memory-holes are very well concealed.

Hmm. This makes me wonder about the stocks and the put-call volume ratio for pharmaceitical companies, as it concerns this ebola outbreak. Id also be curious about tech companies involved with the thermometers theyll be using at these checkpoints.

Start checking out the OCC. I think it's almost time.

Hell, even specific airlines should be watched in this regard.

That's what I was getting at.

If 9/11 had this precedence, surely we would be able to identify similar patterns if this is, indeed, a facilitated outbreak, right? Or am i missing or misunderstanding something?

You picked up what I put down.

Btw, i love how you are always able to back shit up and elaborate.

You're very welcome. This type of evidence based discussion is what r/conspiracy should be about, because the facts should be on our side. Bonus points if the MSM gets to be used but I prefer to go to sources (SEA of 1934) whenever possible.

Your questions are what's been keeping me going lately, STK, so thank you for that. Become more informed and comfortable with the material, and spread it. It's the only way (right now).

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals

There you go. It's linked in one of my above comments quotes. It's where they determined the put options ratios.

I think the only thing this accomplishes is allowing the TSA another excuse to target you for harassment. "Excuse me, but I saw you cough while in line. Could you come with us, please?"

The only way to detect ebola in crowds is by measuring for fever. Until you are literally deathly sick, you can bring a fever down with Asprin.

Easy. Aspirin is now a controlled substance. Report to the school nurse for permission and assistance with control measures.

Controlled for everyone! Delayed adulthood is a wonderful thing. You will never die if you let us make the big scary decisions.

If we can send SWAT teams to okra gardens, we can send them to debark willow trees and inspect your medicine cabinet!

Sorry, I'm taking piss-taking the police state mentality. Poe's law.

It says right in the article;

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.

TSA droolers will probably try to stick thermometers up peoples' asses.

Mining operation.

Controlled for everyone! Delayed adulthood is a wonderful thing. You will never die if you let us make the big scary decisions.