[riri]

submitting people to the kinds of quarantines that scientists warn could make containing the epidemic more difficult.

Wow, we really have gone full 1984.

This just defies any logic. It is like getting on the news night after night and declaring "rain is not wet".

[MrB]

How are people going to be forced to care about the ebola epidemic if it’s not here in America, too?

How are straight people going to be forced to care about AIDS if only homosexuals are subject to it?

How do we force people to care about pollution if global warming is falsified?

“forcing people to care” is the driving motivation.

[TheDon]

Yep. The translation from lib speak to normal speak is most often to simply invert the meaning of what is said.