The White House is super tough on Ebola and hantavirus, of all things
So, the same government that spent years arguing over masks is suddenly acting like a sci-fi bio-containment squad. If an American gets Ebola abroad, the official plan is basically to lock the front door.
It turns out the White House actually knows how to use a padlock when they want to. While the country is still recovering from the chaotic, mixed-signal mess that was the COVID-19 response, the administration is playing absolute hardball with some much rarer pathogens.
First up: two passengers from a cruise ship that got hit with hantavirus were slapped with mandatory federal quarantine orders. No polite suggestions, just straight-up isolation enforced by the government.
But it gets wilder. If an American citizen catches Ebola while traveling abroad, the official plan is now to block them from coming back to the U.S. for treatment. Yes, actual citizens. Just left on the other side of the border.
It is comforting to know the government has a zero-tolerance policy for diseases that almost nobody has, while everyone just has to raw-dog the airborne ones.
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