[ProtectOurFreedom]

We should probably be building large quarantine camps. All people suspected of having contact with infected people would be required to go to the camps for the requisite 40 days (from Italian quarantine giorni, literally "space of forty days," from quaranta "forty," from Latin quadraginta. From the Venetian custom of keeping ships from plague-stricken countries waiting off its port for 40 days (first enforced 1377) to assure that no latent cases were aboard. The extended sense of "any period of forced isolation" is from 1670s.).

Letting people who have had contact with infected persons is just insane; that's how exponential infections take off.

Late response to an exponential growth is a total disaster. You can never catch up. If you're not a generation ahead of the disease, you're doomed.

[greeneyes]

Quarantine should have happened with this guy when he went to the hospital the first time. From Liberia, with a fever, should have caused the triage nurse to immediately isolate him in a negative pressure room if possible, and no one else approach him without full protective gear.

Lock down the waiting room, and get ready to isolate and monitor those there.

Even after it was known that he had Ebola, people without protective gear were trapsing in and out of the apartment before it was sanitized. It’s just been a total screw up from the git go.

Quarantine used to mean no one in or out. Not well we make exceptions when we want to.