Personally, I believe that anyone who believes the government’s rhetoric that Americans can’t catch Ebola are the ones who are insane.
You see that’s the problem, in good science, you do not assume when you don’t really know, you admit the limits as to how certain you are. In cases where really intense treatment or a high risk of fatality is present, and ebola qualifies for both, you take immense precaution.
What’s more if someone actually has ebola, the quarantine allows for early detection and early treatment.
Also true is that hopefully, and despite the idiocy, we never get more ebola cases at once than we can handle. Because if it gets to the hundreds, we have more at the moment than we can handle with provided isolation wards. If hundreds of people are infected, well, especially if scattered, it will be a nightmare tracking and stopping them from all spreading it. Thanks to the government’s stupidity, if the TSA already wasn’t it, I have another reason to stay away from airports and downtown in various big cities.