Recently a "bioethicist" (i.e., not an MD or an epidemiologist) published seven reasons why he thinks an Ebola quarantine in the United States is a bad idea:
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/bioethicist-7-reasons-ebola-quarantine-bad-bad-idea-n234346
Here are his seven reasons, each followed by my refutation of it.
1. Quarantining people without symptoms makes no scientific sense.
Quarantining people who have been exposed to the virus makes perfect sense. Allowing them to roam freely in our nation until they develop symptoms and infect other people makes no sense at all.
2. Quarantine is next to impossible to enforce.
The US government has a "no-fly list" which is used to keep people off flights coming into the US. In addition we have spies everywhere, and according to Edward Snowden they have the best spy tools money can buy. It will be relatively easy to find the culprits and keep them locked up for 21 days (or as long as necessary). The United States is the world's expert at long-term imprisonment.
3. Quarantine is likely to be challenged in court.
Really? Who gives a damn? Obama ad-Dajjal has broken just about every law there is and ignored the US Constitution at every turn. Now you want to be worried about court challenges? What about those men wrongly imprisoned in our gulag at Guantanamo Bay? Have court challenges helped them? The US government has sufficient authority to impose a quarantine, and so do the sovereign states. National security trumps science any day of the week.
4. Large-scale quarantine has not been thought through, in terms of making it bearable for those confined.
Who gives a shit about "making it bearable"? Did anyone think through the ObamaDon'tCare Program, or the deindustrialization of the US, or globalization, or the Global War on Terror in terms of making it bearable for those affected?
5. Health care workers who take care of those who really do have Ebola at big hospitals, such as Bellevue or Emory, are at the greatest risk.
Fine, then we'll quarantine them too. They can stay at the hospitals where they work, all of which have facilities to feed and house them.
6. Who will volunteer to go to West Africa to stamp out the epidemic, if they know they face three weeks of confinement upon their return?
The Cubans, true Christians, and people who care as much about their neighbors as they do about the people of Africa.
7. When officials respond to panic with quarantine they basically say they can't trust public health officials, science and the ethics of doctors and nurses.
Note well that this man's seven reasons do not include "a quarantine will not prevent the Ebola virus from entering the US".
When officials respond to a threat to our nation by doing nothing and allowing that threat to freely roam our cities and towns, We The People cease to trust anyone in government. What you and the government have and have not done has completely eroded any trust we might have had in science and the ethics of doctors and nurses, several of whom have been responsible for the spread of the virus:
http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2014/10/president-is-responsible-for-ebola.html
Update: It appears that the military wants to quarantine their people, who aren't even supposed to be exposed to Ebola virus disease. If our so-called experts want us to trust them, I suggest as a first step that they talk with each other and come to a consensus:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/27/joint-chiefs-call-for-quarantine-troops-returning-from-ebola-zone/
and
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-27/pentagon-quarantine-troops-returning-west-africa-21-days
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