You would think that during the course of the hour when they isolated the little girl from her mother, intimidated her with talk of being contaminated by bomb residue , stood around jacking their jaws - you would think that perhaps someone would have decided to immediately change gloves, test the gloves, then re-swab the little girl's hands.

You would also think that during that hour of jawing and acting stupid and intimidating, they would have had time to conduct a thorough patdown of the child and an inspection of the wheelchair.

What happened? Someone misplace the SOP? Everyone forget their training? No one at this 'little' airport ever had a positive swab before?

to the ignorant (if well-intentioned) by-standers who though it would be better to whisk her off to a private room. Do they really think that would have made the situation better for the mother and little girl? Or even more threatening?