I saw Sec. Chuck Hagel say on t.v. yesterday that the reason for quarantining the military people is that it is far safer and easier and efficient to quarantine the military personnel than it is to have to quarantine our medical workers who've been exposed (and thus cannot work to TREAT victims military or otherwise)!
This has been my concern all along: if our best medical personnel and hospitals get infected and overloaded and medical providers cannot/will not work, NOBODY will get treated and isolated, and then all hell breaks loose around the nation and abroad.
I would like to know why people think that Hagel's rationale is faulty when applied to civilians like the nurse putting her individual self before millions of others whom the state is legally bound to protect.
If she and her nurse boyfriend, or the infected doctor's caregivers get the disease and so do their co-workers, how is ANYBODY in the state going to get treated and isolated until they're over it??
The nurse is putting her ego at the level of God. Nobody knows yet if she might still become infected, or whether the hospital workers caring for the dr. in NY will become infected.
One person being bored in her rural Maine home is a tiny price to pay for the safety of a city of millions and all the workers needed to fight the disease!
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