I had been thinking about this too, and think this scenario is likely to play out as the woman quarantined is already complaining and she has 20 days to go. I read an article where she stated that “surely her time for being infected must be over”
It appears that culturally African people have a great misunderstanding and disbelief of modern science and this is why this outbreak is so widespread. Even after Ebola reached Monrovia the government could not stop people from eating potentially infected bush meat, they just don’t believe it harbors the virus. West Africans in the USA still have all the cultural beliefs of West Africans.
The question of what will this lone guard do if these people try to make a break for it is a good one and I hope he/she has a plan. Initially, she will probably continue calling the good Mr. Cooper at CNN and complaining, which I’m sure the CDC is ecstatic about.
“It appears that culturally African people have a great misunderstanding and disbelief of modern science”
My boss used to travel to South Africa every few years. When he was there, some prominent politician was under fire for sleeping with an underage girl, who was related to him somehow.
The politician’s response: “Its not a problem, because I took a shower”.
What does this mean? Well, in South Africa, it was not politically damaging to have an affair, or sleep with an underage girl, or even commit incest. That was no problem. The only thing that was politically damaging was the fact that he had not practiced ‘safe sex’ rules, in and AIDS ravaged land - and set a bad example. And his response about the shower - apparently a large portion of the population is of the belief that its ok to have unprotected sex with people who may have HIV....just as long as you take a shower.