I’m convinced that you are right about that. We all know the administration’s mantra: Never let a crisis go to waste.
But of course!
You can't panic a population unless you lull them into believing they are perfectly safe first.
Then you rip the curtain away and show them the grim reality, in livid color and hype, hype, and hype it some more...through a few 24 hour news cycles, along with 'fresh' estimates by the WHO of just how many sick and dying (accompanied by graphic images) there are in West Africa...and the masses will BEG to have their Rights stripped away, and anything else, for that matter, just to be safe.
"Never let a crisis go to waste..."
Bingo!