[Conscience of a Conservative]

Dr. Spencer initially was asymptomatic. He was trusted to self-quarantine and he violated that trust, potentially exposing an unknown number of people to a deadly virus. Had quarantine been enforced these exposures would not have occurred.

Actually, according to the Doctors Without Borders protocols he received upon leaving Guinea, he was trusted to self-monitor, not to self-quarantine.

[Ray76]

You are correct about "monitor" versus "quarantine", my mistake. Thank you for jogging my memory. However, the main point is: he should have been quarantined.

[Ray76]

We can not let the genie out of the bottle or the numbers will bury us.

With only a handful of cases:

Bellevue Hospital Center has been forced to transport its intensive care unit patients two blocks north to NYU Langone Medical Center, as the staff at the Bellevue ICU are consumed with Ebola care.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/27/bellevue-staff-consumed-with-ebola-care-transfers-icu-patients-to-nyu-langone/

What if there were a dozen cases? 20? 50?

We can not let the genie out of the bottle or the numbers will bury us.