Handful yes you are right, but what if movement is restricted in whole cities? What if it isn’t they are restricted enough, but you know that there are multiple cases. Are you going to conduct business as usual not knowing if the person you just bought a gallon of milk and a pack of gum is infected?
This won’t be a handful of outlaying houses it will be whole cities.
LOL, the B movie scenario about a 40 year old disease that has killed probably a 1000 people over it’s history.
Do we have to go straight to Road Warrior Apocalypse, mightn’t it just turn out to be another disease that we can handle and learn to take in stride if need be?
Even the deadly decades of AIDS have never destroyed us and had people abandoned to starve because we won’t let them go get some take out.