[off-topic discussion edited by Moderator.]

I flew to China during the "swine flu" scare when they had implemented a policy of holding offloading until a team of bio-suit inspectors came on the plane and fever scanned each passenger. If any passenger had a fever, that passenger and any other passenger within 3 rows of them would be quarantined for a couple weeks in a (not so fun I hear) Chinese facility. I was petrified that this would happen to me.

You may recall a news story where a school trip to China spent their entire visit in quarantine due to another passenger having a fever.

Of course that same illness is now a common flu in the U.S. (H1N1).

As far as I know, currently there is no U.S. screening/quarantine procedure or protocol in place for screening passengers coming in on a domestic flight. What happened here seems to be arbitrary and beyond any current CDC recommended protocol.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/exposur...-exposure.html

Are we going to just act on arbitrary fear or CDC established recommended procedure?

It seems some are in the "better safe than sorry camp" but why don't we leave it up to individual's discretion and leave it up to the CDC to determine whether mandatory detentions are necessary.