The http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=228267 article cited by Gadsden1st above makes precisely that point. When faced with exponential growth, you cannot take timid measures. You must be taking ridiculously out-sized steps that are WAY ahead of the growth curve. The lag time required to take the necessary prevention steps allows the disease to outgrow whatever you planned. What is being done today should have been done 6 to 12 months ago.
This is what’s so shocking. The world has had 40 years notice to get ready for this day, and it hemmed and hawed and dawdled, never taking it seriously.
I’m here in Texas reasonably close to DFW. Heard on local radio tonight that the ambulance company and crew were not notified about the ebola diagnosis until they heard it on the news. That ambulance was in service hauling patients for at least two days after it carried the ebola patient with just “routine” cleaning. So far there has been no organized trace work done on those potentially exposed. It may lead to nothing -— but another unsuspecting case may be lurking out there a few days from now.
In a population with stupid, superstitious people who cut the throats of the tracers. I'm not saying we are better, but we have a larger number of literate people who will behave mostly rationally.