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Public Health Emergency Declared In Connecticut Over Ebola: Civil Rights Suspended Indefinitely
We warned a week ago of the various possibilities surrounding an Ebola outbreak in America, and today we get some degree of confirmation of a medical-based martial-law coming to the US. Governor Dan Malloy has declared a Public Health Emergency in Connecticut, authorizing the "isolation of any individual reasonably believed to have been exposed to the Ebola virus." Simply put, as we noted previously, the State of Public Health Emergency allows bureaucrats to detain and force-vaccinate people without due process - despite not one single case being found in CT. If there is a major Ebola pandemic in America, all of the liberties and the freedoms that you currently enjoy would be gone.
The Public Health Emergency declaration...
"I hereby declare a public health emergency for the State, pursuant to the Connecticut General Statutes Section 19a-131a, for the duration of the epidemic. Specifically, in accordance with Connecticut General Statutes Section 19a-131b, I authorize the Commissioner of Public Health to Order the isolation or quarantine, under conditions prescribed by the Commissioner of Public Health, of any individual or group of individuals whom the Commissioner reasonably believes to have been exposed to, infected with, or otherwise at risk of passing the Ebola virus."
Which he defended as a precautionary and preparatory measure in the event that the state has either a confirmed infection or has confirmed that someone at risk of developing the infection is residing in the state.
“We are taking this action today to ensure that we are prepared, in advance, to deal with any identified cases in which someone has been exposed to the virus or, worst case, infected,” said Governor Malloy. “Our state’s hospitals have been preparing for it, and public health officials from the state are working around the clock to monitor the situation. Right now, we have no reason to think that anyone in the state is infected or at risk of infection. But it is essential to be prepared and we need to have the authorities in place that will allow us to move quickly to protect public health, if and when that becomes necessary. Signing this order will allow us to do that.”
Translated... as we previously noted:
If there is a major Ebola pandemic in America, all of the liberties and the freedoms that you currently enjoy would be gone. If government officials believe that you have the virus, federal law allows them to round you up and detain you "for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary." In addition, the CDC already has the authority to quarantine healthy Americans if they reasonably believe that they may become sick. During an outbreak, the government can force you to remain isolated in your own home, or the government may forcibly take you to a treatment facility, a tent city, a sports stadium, an old military base or a camp. You would not have any choice in the matter. And you would be forced to endure any medical procedure mandated by the government. That includes shots, vaccines and the drawing of blood. During such a scenario, you can scream about your "rights" all that you want, but it won't do any good.
In case you are tempted to think that I am making this up, I want you to read what federal law actually says. The following is 42 U.S.C. 264(d). I have added bold for emphasis...
(1) Regulations prescribed under this section may provide for the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease in a qualifying stage and (A) to be moving or about to move from a State to another State; or (B) to be a probable source of infection to individuals who, while infected with such disease in a qualifying stage, will be moving from a State to another State. Such regulations may provide that if upon examination any such individual is found to be infected, he may be detained for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary. For purposes of this subsection, the term “State” includes, in addition to the several States, only the District of Columbia.
(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term “qualifying stage”, with respect to a communicable disease, means that such disease—
(A) is in a communicable stage; or
(B) is in a precommunicable stage, if the disease would be likely to cause a public health emergency if transmitted to other individuals.
In addition, as I discussed above, the CDC already has the authority to isolate people that are not sick to see if they do become sick. The following is what the CDC website says about this...
Quarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill. These people may have been exposed to a disease and do not know it, or they may have the disease but do not show symptoms. Quarantine can also help limit the spread of communicable disease.
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And as Police State USA summarizes,
Governor Dannel Malloy has declared Connecticut to be in a state of public health emergency, enabling the indefinite suspension of certain civil rights. State bureaucrats have been granted the broad authority to forcibly detain suspected sick people without due process. The declaration came preemptively, as Connecticut has not yet seen a single case of the virus it purports to stop.
Rationalizing his actions, the governor said in a statement: “We need to have the authorities in place that will allow us to move quickly to protect public health, if and when that becomes necessary. Signing this order will allow us to do that.”
The recipient of most of the newly-imparted power is Jewel Mullen, Connecticut’s Commissioner of the Department of Public Health (DPH). By having this measure in place, Commissioner Mullen explained, “we don’t have to scramble in the event I need to take action.”
The actions that authorities might want to “scramble” to use is the forcible quarantine of citizens — without charges or trial.
Connecticut General Statutes Section 19a-131a spells out the powers that may be used during the state of public health emergency:
“[While] the emergency exists [the state] may do any of the following: (1) Order the commissioner to implement all or a portion of the public health emergency response plan developed pursuant to section 19a-131g; (2) authorize the commissioner to isolate or quarantine persons in accordance with section 19a-131b; (3) order the commissioner to vaccinate persons in accordance with section 19a-131e; or (4) apply for and receive federal assistance.”
As noted above, the Commissioner may issue an order of mass vaccination at his or her own discretion.
Section 19a-131d states that any individual who refuses to comply with any portion of the order may be punished with with fines and imprisonment for up to one (1) year.
Fending off a police state requires constant vigilance against efforts to desecrate civil liberties. As the current scenario has shown us, a climate of fear — fear of disease, terrorism, foreign threats, etc. — makes it all-too easy to suspend constitutional rights with minimal public resistance. Many people actually feel grateful to see the government absorbing greater powers; taken with the promises of keeping them safe.
The state of public health emergency will remain in effect indefinitely until lifted by the governor.
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Welcome to the new normal American police state.
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who wore it better?
If'n you want maximum terminal effect at the receiving end -and- at maximum dx - and- Hollywood quiet,
...go with the biggest bore, heaviest pill, subsonic velocities, and aim high.
10 ga, 2 oz slug, aim like a mortar...
Residential physical security is a booming market for many good reasons.
Doorways are funnels.
Hegdless_horseman
Steroids yes, speed/amphetimines less so.
More likely they are straight as a die, just well pissed off that everybody they meet lies to them.
'I was only doing 30'
'I was only holding it for him'
'What is your problem' (after being pulled for driving with no lights)
TBH it is a good job I'm not allowed to carry or there would be a hell of a lot of catsup on the road and that is just on my way to work.
He was holding a nail gun
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! A NAIL GUN! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
When trouble knocks at (or kicks in) your door, knock it on its ass with a .338 Lapua round.
It shoots through schools.
But but but.....the CDC said quarantining would only make it worse.
Or does that mean we can only quarantine the US citizens but still let the infected illegals flood into the the country?
That's probably another 1 of those gubmint paradockses. Like "more food stamps stimulates employment."
"If we let more Eboleans into the country the infection rate will decrease."
It's like 1 of those Piglosi Pardockses.
Good point and "see below" as well. All they found was Okra I believe...eating of which could be construed as criminal in my book.
Seriously though...NEWSLASH: "everything gives you cancer, there's no cure, there's no answer."
This thing is as deadly serious as that...and yet we must learn to live with a world that is forever beyond our control folks! Simply put THE AUTHORITIES DONT KNOW EITHER.
I say "don't be fooled by the conspiracy" either when simple incompetence will suffice. All men have egos...they got to their position by claiming perfect certainy in the knowing of these things...and nothing says an. Outbreak that in understanding that what you know is wrong.
Yet to me more than anything what matters most is that we can approach these things with a large amount of fatalism....that we're dealing with a dragon here we simply cannot defeat with human will...let alone "pie in the sky optimism."
i told you so...
but you said 'NO'!
its just a harmless little bunny....
i said "ITS GOT FANGS"...
"LOOK AT THE BONES"!
You all have been infected. Out of the door, line on the left, one prison uniform each.
Go thru' the "showers" first.
Leave your wedding bands in the pile at the left.
I worked with a lady back in the early '70's who had a messed up earlobe and one day I asked her about it. She said that during the war she was being placed in a concentration camp and they were required to remove all clothes and jewelry. She said she was standing there naked and removing her earrings at the gate and as she took the first one off one of the Nazi guards just reached up and ripped the other one out.
Must have been the type of prick they're looking for today...
You want grunts to feel invincible and always doing right, i.e. following the head tyrant's orders. When you sick these grunts onto a helpless population, they devolve into remorseless torture-lovers. There was nothing special about the Nazis, per se. We are heading in the same direction today in the US via the illegal actions of our military and law enforcement. Dont go out like the Jews or Armenians. Prepare to resist this tyranny.
Flashback!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWsvPoF8W3E&sns=em
Err, and just what is in that vaccination?
The nurses don't want them:
'Nurses sue Boston hospital over flu shot requirement'http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/nurses-sue-boston-hospital-over-flu-s...
Shoot first. Investigate later.
Yeah, we'll watch out for the blood splatter then.
Maybe the Governor could start by protecting health care workers first?
You know...the ones with Ebola who you clowns keep bringing back here on the "the only thing you have to fear America is that we're in charge"?
I find it quite extraordinary that a private Univeristy (Emory in Atlanta) is holding an anonymous victim in its lab! "We're all just part of the experiment so just live with it"?
Wow...great policy response if that's how we the sheeple are suppose to get this bizness.
Glad to see the Commander in Chief found someone who was finally willing to shake his hand btw. (And I am being serious about this btw.). I find I truly incredible that no one in Chicago (this photo op was in LA of course) wanted to meet....THEIR PRESIDENT.
Seriously...Ebola is not a joke and "keep it in West Africa" you morons.
I agree it's not a joke and I think every state should follow CT's lead declaring health emergeny suspending all civil rights, in other words declare martial law.
Let's go ahead and take this to its logical conclusion, ebola can infect people 500 miles away, science doesn't know how, but it can apparently, and state governors know best of course, can't be too cautious.
LOLZ
Where do you get the money? The resources? What if this really is a modern day plague....
Deciding whether or not it was a man or a woman that he saw at the end of his driveway.
Where is the creepy coroner.
Funny you mention him. He retired right after Sandy Hook.
Get your own hazmat suit and wear it if anybody tries to take me in. They have no rights to do so if I am already protecting myself...I dont need their help.
"I want you to know I believe in safe sex." Leslie Nielsen
"I do too." Priscilla Presley.
If they tag you as possible ebola carrier, you won't have any say in it, off you go to wherever they want.
You ebola fearmongers asked for this to happen.
Karma's a bitch.
Yeah but take one look at the Soviet Union: "how do you send people "there"?"
I think "the folks" (meaning us people here) are gonna have to start devising a response as it appears to me there is no response. Reminds me of the folks on Apollo 13 actually...
This is comforting. Just wait till they rush through a vaccine that is in such high demand that it has few immunogens and lots of adjuvant. Kids will love it but since they might lose cognitive abilities, they wont be able to thank you.
Adjuvants are like the bread crumbs of meatloaf. How to make a 3 lb meatloaf with 1 lb of ground beef. Well, not quite as benign.
What is it about the Northeast and heavy handed government? I mean, the US on the whole is pretty shitty in terms of liberty, but man, if the Northeast just doesn't take the cake.
pods
Puritans
A majority of people who identify themselves as 'Democrats'.
(BTW- The South, aka the people who identify themselves as republicans, is policed by stormtroopers that wear their shades with the mirrors on the inside)
Some of that insect glycosolation does a (human) body right!
"What is it about the Northeast and heavy handed government?"
Higher radiation contamination. Look at where all the nuke plants are:
http://www.nucleartourist.com/us/us-plant.htm
They all leak radioactive hydrogen (tritium) like crazy. Regular venting with no filtering. Keeps 'em from blowing up.
Run for Congress? Everyone should be running in the opposite direction.
Excellent question!
He and his one eyed cat have been quarantined for thesafety of the children
Last seen with Jimmy Hoffa heading towards a Dead Microbiologist concert, they had lawn tickets.
What would Stalin do? Or should I say "What would Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jugashvili the Georgian dictator of the USSR do?"
What his Jewish wife would tell him to do.
Now, who pulled her strings?
Good point. Nice pair those two.
Stalin did set up the "Jewish Autonomous Zone" in Russia.
Wiki it...
next comes restriction of travel..
for everyone!
"Papers, please!"
On Election Day, the Gov. will determine that all Registerd Republicans "appear ill" and are thereby quarantined until the Polls close.
More like "don't be a black dude with bloodshot eyes."
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At least the Republicans wanting to open the floodgates to H1-B's would have still required health checks.
Right?
And shortly thereafter, cleaning up "misinformation" on the internet, since it's inciting panic.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2787943/going-viral-zombies-gove...
p.s. You've apparently been down-arrowed by one of the cleaners.
WTF was THAT???
an ebola zombie?
you've got to be kidding me!!!
OH, THATS JUST WRONG!!!
Nah, its par for the course with the Daily Mail.
"next comes restriction of travel"
Huh? That would only slow the spread...?
Connecticut is a commuter state. Traffic into NY is gonna be a real bitch if people stop taking those trains.
No, Obama said you can't get it from sitting next to an infected person. It's only in Africa that the CDC doesn't want anyone taking public transportation.
Geez, it couldn't be more clear . . .
I feel safer, too because I have Obamacare. I know he cares and will come and wave his magical hands over me and cure me of the Obamala virus. You just can't buy more security than the blanket govt. provides. I feel flush whenever I think of how secure I am..........whaaaaa, those are funny looking paramedics carrying AR-15's. They just assured me I will be temporarily moved to a FEMA camp where they can assure me of being safe. It is for my own good, don't y'know.
Not going to waste this opportunity to rapidly get heavy handed in the 'developed world'. Anybody still think this plague got out of west Africa by accident.
Uh, the 9% that still believe everything Dear Leader says is true?
So if you spit on the bastards when they're trying to quarantine you will that get you a charge of attempted murder? If so, might as well start shooting 'cause I don't know that I could keep myself from spitting...
Screw spitting - go for their protective gear. Tearing that suit might be difficult, but not impossible. A razor tucked between your fingers would probably do the trick.
Who needs a razor when they suits have zippers? If you haven't see the photos from the plane incident, you should go look. One of the suited up people didn't zip the zipper all the way up. There was a large opening that someone photographed. Oops LOL!
They (the Government) will run out of resources after a couple hundred real cases needing to quarantine 10's of thousands. That's when things will get dicey. Flamethowers, shootings on sight?
isolation - at the rate its propagating by spring it would be best to quit your job and find a cabin somewhere and stock up on supplies.
It will burn itself out but it will take a good deal of people with it. 21 days is a long enough window to infect a lot of people.
go long Clorox.
Trial ballon for Obama to suspend the Constitution. So much for Pres Elections. Or maybe I have just flat gone bonkers.
Always a lot of talk about how Obama's handlers might manage to halt future elections... an Ebola pandemic would certainly be one plausible scenario.
Looks like Martin Armstrong may be right on target. Time to load your mags and keep your gear close.
one round, ball; per governor, doesn't seem very expensive. could change a lot of minds in a hurry.
Where were all you Second Amendment boys when the rest of the Bill of Rights was taken from us? It’s obvious the Second Amendment Uber Alles crowd, if they ever shot anybody political, would shoot the wrong person. Where have you cowards been since 1981 when the shooting should have started?
Same place as you.
If I'm a coward, so are you.
You weren't with me or you wouldn't be here now.
sell everything
Live like there's no tomorrow. Well, like there's no two years from now. Or less . . .
Its pretty gay..seeins how I live in CT.
:/
I bet they tag all CWP owners as Ebola carriers...are there ANY CWP owners in Conn.?
I've seen this movie already. It ends badly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg3RP5omxYA
This whole thing smells of a steered operation from the bowels of foggy bottom. ,,,good night Amerika..From W.Africa to a town near you...with love from DC.
Remember its up to the govt. official to make the decision if your sick or not or if you may be infected. This is going to end real well won't it.
On this date, Tuesday, November 4, 2014, I declare a statewide Ebola emergency. The scheduled elections are cancelled until further notice. Residents statewide should shelter in place. Police have instructions to arrest anyone violating this order. Resistance is futile.
Governor Dan Malloy.
Is CT also the state so big on gun control?
Right before the elections...
Liberals unite against the evil overlords!!!
Yeah right
The pablum pukers would have you believe that individual rights outweigh the rights of a civiliaztion to protect itself.
You NY'ers sitting in Starbucks right now blabbing about this newsfeed have never faced a crisis like this. When your neighbors puke on you and die beside you then you'll understand that this is the greatest threat we have ever faced in the 100 years since the last big crisis - the spanish flu
My great grandfather's memoirs about the spanish flu make me appreciate how seriosu this is. He lost his entire family in a week..... 31 people.....
When your family starts dying around you - maybe you would appreciate the fact that individual rights kill... The Africans have always isolated the sick and let them die or live to proetct the village. This is no different
Infected people will kill millions in a situation like this
Never let a crises go to waste.
Not Surprised.
Sandy Hoax State
At least the quarantine workers will be safe from assault rifle fire /sarc
In Connecticut, "assault rifles" are magical devices that, when wielded by an untrained and physically unimposing young man barely out of his teens, kill with a 100% mortality rate. They didn't bother to take any of the victims to the hospital, even though they had been shot only 15 minutes before police arrived, apparently because they were so incredibly dead. Hardened combat vets would be hard pressed to achieve that level of success.
Shhhhh, you might wake the sleeping.
Reminds me of the 'Port Arthur Massacre' which resulted in guns being banned in Australia:
A mentally retarded young man accomplished this:"All of these events, from the first bullet that killed Ng, took approximately 15 seconds, during which 12 people were killed and 10 more were wounded"
"Twenty-nine rounds had been fired in the cafe and gift shop areas in approximately 90–120 seconds. Up to this time, Bryant had killed 20 people and injured 12"
Headshots, almost all of them. Damn.
Rebel videos from East Ukraine show wounded soldiers being helped back from the combat. In many cases they display leg and arm wounds from the modern AK-47 assault rifle. There really is no bullet hole, but a totally smashed arm or leg, just a mass of bone fragments and muscle. Clearly amputation is the only treatment as nothing of substance remains. Nobody with a body or head wound will survive, body armor is an absolute must in infantry fighting with modern assault rifles. Velocity of the rounds imparts so much energy to the wound, that the days of bullet holes are long gone.
Bullets have had that kind of velocity since the 1880s with the advent of smokeless propellants. The 7.62X39 round is actually fairly slow at 2300fps. The faster 5.45X39 round is noted for tumbling on impact, and would be devestating if it hit bone. The no longer used 5.56X45 55 grain M193 round was also known for this and was even more devestating at 3300fps. However, penetration of hard objects was very poor.
Made to tumble in < 7 inches and can penetrate concrete block.
The New and Improved (JIT).... M 855 A1
I am sure some school bus will magically appear and take the quarantine workers to safety at Gene Rosen's house.
Wanna take bets on those 'civil rights' being restored?
I'll take the over on never.
I wouldnt call what we have currently in place now as 'rights', everything has just been an illusion it seems. All about perceptions until SOMEBODY figures it out and decide to stand up for their REAL rights.
Exactly.
If we get a pandemic, or something near enough to shut down supply chains for a long enough time, we'll wind up with 'jungle rights' under said law.
After Sandy Hook, I have total confidence on the good intentions, transparency and decency of the officials in the Connecticut government.
What do Sandy Hook and Ebola 2014 have in common?
No photos!
Soon there will be 100s of invisible bodies and weeping crisis actors.
Shoot first, check for Ebola second.
So allow free travel to and from the primarily affected region, but allow uncontested lockdown of anybody 'suspected of being infected' in country. I'm beginning to suspect an ulterior motive (what a surprise).
EDIT: ANNNNND Mandatory vaccination. Wow, who benefits from that? Fuck this statist, fascist police-state bullshit.
great point.. +1
Francis sums it up best here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pA1h1FjBZg
Free travel, at the moment, is so Obama's VIP friends over there can get themselves, their families and their gold the hell out on the next plane afterwhich they will slam the gates shut on the sheeple.
Al, you just pointed out the insanity of government. Only they would keep airlines flying hundreds of people from Ebola infected cities right into the USA, and then dare to limit Americans civil rights to what goverment says they are. This is not logic, this is excuse to end civil rights. Period. +100 for you comment.
Actually, it's an excuse to kill 245,000,000 people here in the US.
The rest is all gravy.
They do't look liek Ghost busters.
Now this should crash the markets.
If you mean the Crimex gold market, you're probably right.
Shelter in place. Commerce would grind to a halt aside from basic necessities.
Which will likely happen anyway, ebola or not. This way it's a virus' fault, and not the Fed's.
^this.
The economy is already swirling the bowl. This new crisis will allow both oodles of printed fiat for our masters and more control.
Think of it like a psychopath double play!
pods
agree. cover to implement martial law
It's nice to know our good friends in Connecticut are so gung ho to get this done. I think Connecticut would make a nice hazardous waste dump.
Unfair on toxic sludge IMO.
Your point is well taken, since it is close to halloween, how about if we cede it to the devil???
;-D
Just need 50 Ebola victims, to shake hands in each governor's mansion. We will see if they are hypocrites.
Oh Dannel you silly bitch. No wonder I moved south
listen apes
take the shot
the vaccine shot.
the monkey virus kill shot
chimps make your way to the simian processing centre.
climb into the fema coffin
and wait for removal and incineration.
if you are of jewish extraction you are immune from pschological trauma warfare operations.
Is this a 3 day weekend ??.....be careful, if it is.
Columbus day. When the Europeans brought a few nice surprises for the natives.
The Nina, Pinta and the Santa Shitstorm.
LOL. Yeah; this is called, smallpox, you'll love it. LOL.
What a prick, bringing horses, the wheel, the pulley, to the Americas...
and blankets. I bet those savages had never seen them things before.
They'd never seen a carrack, cannon or rapier before either. But don't doubt for a second they asked to hold a Spaniard's rapier and fire a cannon very soon after first exposure.
Hell, even think they could kill the Spaniards and TAKE the cannons, rapiers, carracks...
Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 right?
Microorganisms were first directly observed in the 1670s by Anton van Leeuwenhoek, an early pioneer in microbiology. Building on Leeuwenhoek's work, physician Nicolas Andryargued in 1700 that microorganisms he called "worms" were responsible for smallpox and other diseases.[3]
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Where did your post go gwar5? That was a good comment.
why
It used to be a market holiday, until they swapped it out for MLK. Thanks Al Sharpton....now I get to enjoy a nice fall day off in January.
Clear. Decisive. No bullshit. Took action and took a position. Does Malloy want to be president? There's a vacancy.
well, if somebody shoots him; immediately; and leaves a note that says t his is not acceptable; could slow down the hero governors a lot.
That stuttering moron would never make it through the inaugural oath.
Out of all states ... Connecticut?
They don't even have any sick people or do they?
And this is for ALL communicable diseases not just ebola.
Just in time for flu season.
pods
You said it - how will they differentiate between common cold, flu, (to name a few) and ebola?
They all have pretty much the same symptoms at first.
But they are also "communicable" so they have an legal excuse to just pack you in a van and off you go....
We should stash a winter's worth of Nyquil before it gets complicated.
Remember a few years ago when we had Avian and Swine flu scares?
Many employers adopted a policy to fire you if you showed up to work with the flu or flu-like symptoms. You think this flu season combined with the ebola scare is going to cause more companies to adopt that sort of policy?
Yes we do have sick people. They are called elected officials. And President Ebola buttboy Malloy is the sickest of them all. Anything he can do to get the attention of the psychopaths in DC he will do. Yet the phone call from the West Wing hasn't happened yet. Maybe if he loses in November they'll throw him some kind of bone and we will be rid of him.
The Clerk of the State Senate is named Garey Coleman.
"Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Ebola?"
LMFAO....nice catch.
As a practical matter, how do they intend to scale this? Sure, the first dozen or so cases can be treated forcefully... Maybe even the first hundred or so cases... But much past that, people will be begging to be let in to treatment centres and hospitals. The logistics will require that they forcibly turn people away, not forcibly treat.
Not to mention, once it goes fully ape-shit, anyone who's "ordered" to don a haz-mat suit (or not?) and confront a bunch of angry suspected/confirmed Ebola patients is just gonna walk away, like the hospital workers in Madrid are already doing.
That's why it's a good time to get it early.
"Test the vaccine on me! Pick me! Pick me!"
Lol. I also enlisted to avoid the draft.
Pure tyrannical government insanity at its most paranoid and ineffective. You create a highly motivated enemy (the citizen/resident) who knows he's got a good chance of dying if he complies, and you're asking a tactical paramilitary team to get themselves exposed to Ebola in order to grab the target. Last I checked, those biohazard-5 suits weren't (a) bulletproof or (b) good for CQC/CQB.