>>JR, please prove it.

Please prove that quarantining her for 21 days will save you from the specter of Ebola.

The governor now says she can swap a blood test for the quarantine. Please prove that she didn't already have a blood test and that having one now will save you from the specter of Ebola.

In any case, isn't it the other way around? To legally impose quarantine, doesn't there have to be an "actual or threatened epidemic?" Unless you are proposing illegal incarceration, please prove that there is an actual or threatened epidemic. Asking others to prove things does not transfer this obligation to them.

>>Please prove to me how you know with 100% certainty that once 21 days elapses (or even 40 days, because even the CDC acknowledges that a small % of cases don't present until after 21 days), she won't have it.

Precisely. Why pick 21 days? Why not put her in a mask and lock her up forever. You're the one calling for quarantine: please prove your proposal is 100% effective since that is your index of acceptance.

>>You can say that she's an experienced medical nurse who took all precautions.

I can say that, but I didn't. You did. Just saying for the record. The CDC also considered that these people had proper precautions so should be monitored, not incarcerated. But if you ask "prove it" then you can ignore this as well.

>>I'll acknowledge that odds are certainly low that a month or so from now, she won't have it. But this "she doesn't have it" has some flawed premises.

Question for you: when did she last come into contact with a patient with Ebola, let alone with fluids? She is described as an epidemiologist and my experience of them (despite the label that might cause non-medical people to draw a different conclusion) is that they attend meetings and usually don't treat patients at all- but lets say she did. If >21 days ago, then she already passed your proposed quarantine period. Now what?