[[when people got quarantined until they were deemed to be healthy?]]
Nowadays- nurses can work in ebola infected countries overseas, come back here- refuse to be quarantined and society an the law shrug their shoulders and say “Well- they refuse, what can we gonna do?”
When I was working my way through college, the first time, I worked as a nurse’s assistant in a hospital isolation ward. We had lots of rules about suiting up and face masks and gloving and double gloving. And the stuff we were guarding against were all the harmless stuff like regular hospital germs and the stuff the patients in the 1970’s had, before AIDS and all the foreign drug-resistant strains. But you know what? I was better prepared to care for patients then with the lesser degree of germs and viruses than any of the nurses today who are facing some real scary stuff.