The question is ...would 0bama let that happen? Would the Democrats let that happen?
Millions left to starve in a quarantined city, county etc.
I think not. There won’t be necessarily a Mad Maxx scene unless the uneducated masses panic. No, there will be a quarantine and martial law, controlled food distribution etc. and death wagon to dispose of the bodies.
Education has nothing to do with it. An educated mother will kill to feed and protect her children. If it's just one city, then soldiers can probably maintain control. If it's dozens of cities, all bets are off. I remember the race riots in the mid-1960s when the National Guard was trying to quell violence in SF. My home in the Mission on a hillside had a view towards downtown at the NE across to the Fillmore ghetto to the NW. Fire and smoke rising from the ghetto, and sporadic gunfire from Guardsmen weaponry. Scary, and that was just one small neighborhood. Hard to see how they would maintain control citywide when food and supplies are constrained, while disease is rampant.