Any quarantine has to be imposed NOW, and it has to be pretty draconian...although with an adequate food supply and compensation, which will help to keep people from sneaking out.
There may be more cases this time around, or there may not be. But this is just the first time, so a strategy has to be in place.
Naturally, there is no Surgeon General and nobody in charge because Bambi never appointed anyone after the washout of his leftwing nutbag. There’s an acting SG named Boris D. Lushniak, who appears to be an undistinguished and probably very political Rear Admiral.. whose latest initiative was “eat more veggies.”
As I have posted earlier (forgive me if it was to you), the normalcy bias is such that no quarantine will be put in place till it is to late.
There are people already saying that the lady should be allowed to go buy food, because the news says Ebola is not contagious.
And lets be honest, it is Texas/OU this weekend. Do you think they would postpone that game for a few cases of Ebola?
We are playing “Lets pretend!” right now. I fear it will continue till we have to many cases to manage.
As an aside, I grew up on a farm. When you got a bad disease in the hogs, you slaughtered out and left the barns fallow for a long period of time. If it was a “minor” one going around, you put the hogs in a tight lock down. One of my first jobs was to shoot any stray animals that got to close to the farrowing barns.
We were pretty good, but even so we still got hit with a bug. To many vectors to stop on a farm.
Expand that out to the Dallas area, and where do you draw the line? Kansas?