The 1918 pandemic wasn’t TB either, it was the Spanish Flu. The fact is, you dig enough, you will find every single agency that could be impacted, for every year going back at least 50 years will have something like this in place. Contingencies and procedures are always drafted so people know what to do, ‘just in case’.. hell, there is even a famous Department of Defense memo from the 60s on what to do ‘just in case’ of an alien encounter..
You have to keep bureaucrats busy doing something..
The 1918 flu initially spread through the US through military camps and their refusal to think any way but the at-the-time established methods were the best way of dealing with things. (I’m not saying that the military was alone in not dealing with the outbreak of the flu in the best possible way, just that they were one institution amongst many that did so at the time). The methods in place now are a direct result of observations of flu outbreaks since then and including the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 50 to 100 million people worldwide.
Don’t be so sure that just because you dislike the current administration, that everything happening in the world is directly due to how bad you think they are.
Taking them to a hospital would be one thing, but putting them in a camp is another. I guess we should be more vigillant as to what the bureaucrats write.
As for keeping them busy, if there isn't enough for them to do, then there should be fewer of them.