With what force will they be willing to enforce a quarantine? If not deadly, then it is not going to work. Really: How many Americans would you shoot to enforce a quarantine of Dallas if it got bad?
The political will to effect a sizeable quarantine does not exist. Therefore, it seems very likely to me that this bug is going to be a word-wide pandemic like The Black Death.
There isn’t enough nerve in a politician to do what is necessary to limit absolute quantities of death.
(Pending discovery of exactly how infectious this thing is in the modern West....)
It’s a little early yet and you are forgetting the millions of rounds of hollow points the different alphabet agencies purchased.
The political will is going to be forced on Obama, whether he likes it or not.
If you keep the population in place and make sure they have food and water, they’ll be ok. I’d say in this area that most of them are probably on welfare anyway, but if they aren’t, there has to be some way of compensating businesses or employed people. Just a basic FEMA claim.
Also, we’re lucky it’s in North Texas and not a tropical area. The virus can’t survive low temperatures and seems to favor humidity, so North Texas is not a good place for it.
If they stop it NOW, they can do it. The question is how long they will drag their politically correct heels.
It didn't work in West Point (Monrovia) which is mostly surrounded by water. It turns out the better way to deal with the disease is to quarantine larger areas that are more self sufficient. Within the large area they go in and pull all the bodies and the symptomatic people and take them to the incinerator or the high security quarantine.
The tracing, tracking, confinement of suspected cases until test results come back, etc all work better than putting a fence around an area.