BTguy,
The point is that by the time HIV was noticed tens of thousands of people where already infected and the disease had been circulating in the USA for decades. Even if an effective “geographic quarantine” had been possible at some point it was too late by the early 80s.
There was close to 10,000 people infected from tainted blood products alone, not to mention thousands of people who had used intravenous drugs, were G— or had been to or had a relationship with a Hatian. And that’s making (the almost certainly false) assumption that the virus was only circulating in those populations it was first clinically observed in. The reality is that there is almost no way it could have stayed in that population. I elaborated much more in my earlier posts.
Regarding Ebola,
I don’t have anything against testing those who come in from infected countries and quarantining those who test positive. The point is that all a travel ban will do is make it less likely that we will know who is coming in from where and will be ineffective in keeping the diesease out of the US for reasons I listed earlier.
Health,
Please explain why you think people would report for ineffective treatment at the cost of being locked up for life. Terminal patients turn down ineffective treatments that will effect their quality of life a whole lot less then that.
And all that rests on the certainly false assumption that HIV was only extant in the populations in was first clinically observed in.
You have not addressed my point about Ebola at all.