>>When I heard that an MD who had been in contact with Ebola patients was loose in NYC, like millions of others, I said "WHAT???"
Me too. "Tried" to self-isolate? By crossing town on public transport? Either physicians are dumber these days or there's a missing sub-context.
>>Both Christie and Cuomo have backgrounds that have honed their instincts as political leaders and in my judgment they followed them wisely in this case.
Agreed. Politically and expediently, it's easy to present as the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few. Especially if you aren't likely to be amongst the few.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
