“if I hid my Ebola”
Ebola is in Dallas. How many people do you think will get flu-like symptoms in Detroit, Minneapolis, or Seattle in 5 to 30 days and think - “I think I’m coming down with something” and still head off to work?
Or even more so to send their kids to school. I know a grade-school principal that had to shut her school down last year because for a week. So many kids with the flu were still being sent to school. (Mom’s had to go to work you know).
That isn’t what you were talking about, and I was responding to, you just changed the subject.
Your scenario was people concealing the symptoms that they thought indicated Ebola, and hiding it to avoid quarantine.
I to disagree with you that Americans will think their kids have Ebola, and will usher them off to school anyway.
As far as your new scenario, people who think they have a cold or the flu might do what they always do when they think they have a cold or the flu, unless Ebola is in the news a lot, and then I think the typical American will be rushing herself and especially the kids, to the doctor.
In my experience here in DFW, our schools are the opposite. They want your kids at school regardless of whether or not they’re sick. If your child misses three days of school within three weeks, you get a letter telling you that the school is required to file charges against you when your child is absent 10 days within a six-month period. Texas has a 90% attendance requirement.