Yeah, I liked this quote “I think we could contain it,” he said. “We have very good isolation procedures here.”
We also have 300 million people here, many living cheek by jowl in huge densely populated cites. There is no way we have any adequate facilities to really handle a serious disease outbreak.
Imagine trying to quarantine the Bronx, or Chicago.
or Detroit... or Houston... or New Orleans etc.
The time frame over which most Ebola infectees get sick and die makes containment easy. Ebola or not, if you have a bunch of corpses lying around in a few days. The area gets containment protocol. The airport gets containment. They will test people with flu symptoms pretty fast. Besides, flu infectees shouldn’t be walking about anyways.