Jim Noble a voice of reason in the mid of chaos!
I think I speak for the vast majority of those who so many think are being ‘hysterical’ that our concern would be no where near the level it is if the government and medical authorities were taking the actions you describe, but no they are virtually standing at on the sidelines.
At this point you have to wonder if they don’t want a catastrophe to some degree why who knows for power, control, money (funding) who knows, but they are certainly not doing their jobs.
When you look at it most of us are advocating two things one that the government and health services do their job, which is a strict and aggressive quarantine of African countries involved in the outbreak and two that everyone make plans and stock supplies so as to handle a self imposed or ordered quarantine of weeks or months. So what is hysterical about that?
Nothing hysterical about that. Now I have seen a lot of real hysteria on TV when a mob gathers outside a store of some long awaited sale, or rioting after football games, for example.
No hysteria at all. If, for instance, there was a case in your small town (assuming you live in one),it takes 42 days without report of any new infections to declare an outbreak over. That's two incubation periods.
That's six weeks, minimum you either have your own stuff or are dependent on the people who didn't stop the disease at the borders to feed you. Every time you go out for supplies, you become the next potential case.
Seems prudent to be prepared to sit it out, especially considering the stakes--literally life or death (well, a 60-90% chance of death).