Why Craig Spencer doesn't matter

Nor does Kaci Hickox, for that matter.  While I give governors Cumo and Christy real credit for stepping into the utter chaos created by the bumblers from CDC and the White House, their 21 day quarantine of returning health care workers from West Africa is misplaced. 

The heroic volunteers who go to Liberia et. al. have the best training, expertise, life preserving self-interest and sound judgment to know when to cease all contact with others.   Dr. Craig Spencer notwithstanding, self reporting from their US homes such suffice, so long as they agree by binding enforceable administrative orders to remain inside these abodes until cleared of having contracted the disease by the requisite blood tests.

Instead, the several states and the federal government absolutely need to impose a medically supervised quarantine on the 180 or so West Africans arriving on our shores daily, the vast majority of whom have had no training, no expertise, no PPE and no demonstrated good sense not to ignore their own self protections, and the protection of their families and friends by self isolating for the requisite period of time.

Think about this comparative risk analysis and then decide which group of travelers from West Africa need to be isolated by our public health authorities - Mr. Charles Duncan from Liberia - who had a neighbor and close friend oozing bodily fluids from every orifice in her body before, during and after he (attired in his civvies and tidy-whities) carries her in a Monrovia taxi for a futile ride to and from the local hospital where she is refused admission or the American health care workers who wear "moon suits" for every possible ebola contact they undertake.  Does this refusal to quarantine the known unprotected populations of West Africa coming to America, while simultaneously isolating in compelled jail like "lock-up" American heroes make any sense other than politically and scientifically incorrect sense?

The CDC and the White House got what they deserved by failing so arrogantly to protect us all from this ongoing ebola debacle, but all Americans deserve a state response that maximizes ifs effectiveness by targeting only the thousands of West Africans coming here weekly, many probably wearing the same clothes they wore when carrying around their ebola dying relatives.  When will any of our governing elite learn to use a little common sense?  Probably not before a West African infected traveler moves into their Georgetown, DC neighborhood.