We are talking tens if not hundreds of thousands of people caught in these quarenteened zones. They are absent any civil control or organization and any supplies would be fought over viciously at this stage without a presence there to distribute it equally.
Given that the region is still intensely tribal any air drops would just bring about the local strongman and his henchmen who would control those and use them to subjugate/extort the rest.
I think Sirleaf just wants them dead. I look for a ‘mysterious’ fire of some sort in the next few days/weeks.
I sincerely hope I’m wrong and their exposure to zebola is small and inconsequential and all they get is good and mad about being confined.