Eventually, I predict there will have to be a physical quarantine.
Who will man the guns, and will they be willing to shoot?
Otherwise, do we get a world-wide epidemic when / if ebola becomes air-transmissible?
There almost has to be. But there won't especially if it comes to America. We can't even bring ourselves to shoot looters or rioters that are tearing down cities. I can't imagine the political fallout for the first politician who suggests shooting people who escape quarantine.
this is a mission Stupid susan rice and sock puppet barak obama have laid out for US military intervention
obama proposes to send US military troops to “protect” military medical teams and enforce quarantines
our military will have the mission of turning away the dying and shoot those who refuse to obey orders or break quarantine or shoot those who try to storm facilities to loot them of drugs
what can possibly go wrong in such a humanitarian mission?
and of course we can presume our troops will be protected in full biohazard gear, designed for military operations in equatorial regions ...
sarc
From the title I actually thought that maybe Liberia had closed its borders.