Plan can't work. America is such a mobile society that by the time an outbreak was detected at one location, people infected but not yet displaying symptoms will have already traveled out of whatever area is to be "quarantined."
And, what's this about "herding" people into stadiums? Only infected people, or will uninfected people be herded in as well? Tell you what, if you're not infected, but are told to go into some crowd of infected people, would YOU go?
Would the stadium be a "hospital," or would it be more akin to a "death camp"?
In the "quarantined" city, food riots will break out. Sure, some people, a few, perhaps less than 1%, would have prepared and stocked up food, but most people wouldn't have done that. If the roads are blocked off, airports shut down, railroads blocked, there won't be any food delivered. Whatever local law enforcement there is within the "quarantined" area would not be able to handle the resulting anarchy; they would not have the sheer manpower, and they'd be facing a desperate, hostile, armed population, which is not a mix for a peaceful resolution.
But here's what I don't understand: Don't get me wrong, but my understanding is that small pox exists in only 2 laboratories in the world, one here in the U.S., and one in Russia (former Soviet Union). How would there be an outbreak?
If the outbreak came from Russia, that would be quite likely an act of war. Would we declare war on Russia? They have about as many nukes as we have, mind you. Frankly, I doubt that the Russians would do this.
So, that leaves the U.S. lab. How'd it be released from there? Isn't this lab heavily guarded? Or are there "rogue elements" INSIDE the government who would be the traitors releasing the pox? That's the only way I see it getting out.
The other thought that comes to mind is maybe the small pox has already been stolen or gotten out by those traitorous rogue elements, or that perhaps it isn't the case that it was ever in ONLY those two labs in the first place.
The only sure thing I've recognized since 9-11 is that SOMEONE is dead set on destroying the United States of America, its people, its Constitution, its republican form of government, its ideals, its values and its future. Whoever is doing that is an enemy or a traitor.
Well, here's the problem. It's thought by some experts that North Korea and Iraq also have small pox. And of course, Iraq is the most likely candidate to give it to Osama. And it's also thought that quite a bit of Russia's bio warfare supplies may have been "misplaced" over the years. So it's a bit of a problem, and there's every chance that it could be released, or any number of other nasty bugs.