These clowns are going to keep on screwing around until Ebola is raising havoc in America. A lot of Americans are going to die because of this administration’s stupidity and incompetence.
From a legal and economic stand point, that is the preferred choice.
Simply put, if a quarantine works, then it was unnecessary (by that I mean the system of locking large numbers of people down till it burns out). Quarantines will disrupt the economy something fierce.
Now a full blown outbreak will be worse, but that is an “act of God” and carries no political liability.