My mother in law told me about spending the summer in a cabin with her friend and their children in order to quarantine themselves from a polio outbreak that was happening in town. Only one person would go to town for supplies, and the husbands were on their own at home.
How many people do you know who would scream about how unfair that is now?
Smart move at the time. On some of the survivalist threads, you read about people with remote locations designed to outlast the next pandemic. The Black Death was spread or carried by fleas, via rodents if most accounts are true. The next pandemic MAY be avian flu if it crosses over to humans. I still don't know how people are going to keep birds off their hidden survival camp in Timbuxtoo. Besides, I want a ventilator and a doctor if it hits me.
And I don't even want to think about a terrorist induced plauge. ~shudder.
Oh yes. And the political will to enforce quarantine and isolation is not there.
It would get ugly quickly!