“Pushing to confront Ebola at its West African source, President Barack Obama said Wednesday the United States was not immune to the disease but cautioned against discouraging American health care workers with restrictive measures that confine them upon their return from the afflicted region. “We can’t hermetically seal ourselves off,” he declared.”
Never let a crisis go to waste. In fact create one when you can.
Don’t do what worked for every other highly contagious, deadly disease. If you do that for Ebola, then after Congress votes for billions to fund the effort against it, it might just be contained and sent packing. And THEN WHAT WILL WE DO WITH ALL THE MONEY?! (working on it, but even so...)