They are doubling down on their positions of not restricting air travel and having haphazard quarantines of close contact exposures. They oppose reasonable concerns for no other reason than that their critics hold these concerns.
Just 100 cases could bankrupt a private health insurance carrier if they are treated with maximum effort to contain and cure the patient.
Because their opponents hold views? That’s stupid, potentially suicidal, an even more potentially putting all sorts of people in harm’s way. Sometimes the people back in the days where polio and TB were problematic had more sense in their heads than our government has now. Even NASA quarrantined Apollo Astronauts as a precaution against space germs.