BtGuy,
You said,
“I guess I understand you view that you have a right to think specific procedures may not work, but what would be wrong with ALL measures of containment being enacted, even the ones that in hindsight would turn out to be fruitless, until we could have gotten a handle on this?”
If doing things did not come at any cost I would agree with you. However they do come at a cost, and using the limited resources that we have on “solutions” that won’t fix the problem will probably make it worse. These epidemics are a serious issue, they much too serious to deal with in a reactionary and ineffective fashion.
Health,
1.) No one will turn up for testing in order to receive pain meds at the cost of being locked up for life, at best a policy like the one you mentioned above would be great for the illegal dealers of pain meds.
2.) You completely ignored my point about the thousands of people who were infected in the early 70s by tainted blood products and other means. Just take the people infected by tainted blood products, do you really think that in about 10 years they didn’t have relations with “regular” people? Most of them were adults and did.
3.) Regarding Ebola a lot more people then those two nurses would get sick if a travel ban was in place, for reasons I explained in my earlier posts and you failed to address.