...”I agree that the Obama administration’s quarantine policy is based on political correctness, not science. People are not contagious until they show symptoms; the virus only spreads through direct contact with infected bodily fluids. There is no scientific rationale for quarantining non-contagious people prior to symptoms.
The virus causes symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting in order to spread. No symptoms, no spread.”...
This is what we are told by people we do not trust because we have been lied to by the powers that be through so many scandals and crisis..Leaders have politicized everything, and especially medicine, through Obamacare, without the best interests of the country uppermost in public policy. Political correctness is the most powerful tool which has been used to shove America into sharp decline. We see it especially in government, media and institutions. We wish we could have confidence but we do not and cannot under the leadership we have.
I am well aware that liberal "leaders" lie about many things, for the purpose of getting votes. Mostly, their lies revolve around how many goodies the government will give people who vote for them. A lie in this case serves no purpose--they don't want their voters to get sick, because--despite the number of dead voters--their voters are more effective when actually alive and healthy.
On this, however, the facts about Ebola were established by scientists long before most politicians ever heard of the disease. Scientists have been informing the politicians as accurately as they can. Trying to quarantine whole populations has never been effective (targeted quarantines are another matter)--it *is* a political move to call for blanket quarantines, because they are not supported by any scientific rationale. It gives the illusion that "something" is being done, when, in reality, it does nothing to stop the disease, while causing a lot of economic damage.
If you have been in West Africa, in an area of active outbreak, and you feel sick with headache, stomach ache, fever, etc., it makes sense to quarantine you until Ebola can be ruled out. But if you have been in West Africa, and you feel fine, quarantine makes no sense.