So this 2nd nurse was told not to fly and uh well she flew anyway

[Ms. Toad]

93. That's kind of my point.

Your contention was that it is different here. ALL we have to go on is what it is where ebola is prevalent. And that is R2.

There are factors which make it likely to be lower (handling dead bodies more carefully, for one)
There are factors which make it likely to be higher (non-recognition of a disease virtually no one has seen, scores more care providers coming into contact with each patient (I can't imagine 70 care providers in Africa), prevalence of travel to far flung places), and the superiority complex of those providing care - which breeds carelessness (that we're not Africa; of course we can contain it) to name four.

Only time will tell. But for now, what we have is R2 over a very short period of time (ebola) v. R4 (over decades). Not only a theoretical R2, but patient 0 who has already infected 2, and may well be established to have infected more than 2 in his very short illness. That makes ebola much more contagious, so the quarantine concerns regarding HIV/AIDS are quite different - based on what we currently know - than concerns about what is needed to contain ebola, even though the mechanism of transmission is similar.