Like most Americans, I suffer from a bad case of Ignorantia Febris Ebola, or Ebola Ignorance. When Ebola first hit American shores, my gut instinct was to simply ban travel from the affected countries, or at least quarantine travelers for 21 days. I wrote “I’m all for preventing a panic, but a panic is what we will get if we don’t get this situation in hand quickly.” The media-fed panic we are seeing (and it’s not a true panic, more a malaise or angst) is the result of the rapid spread of Ebola Ignorance, which has an R0 value of...