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109. He's already quarantined the troops returning from Africa,

and many here are desperately trying to find some nuance to explain the inconsistency.

I do not necessarily support the mandatory quarantine, but I've seen no actual medical evidence to differentiate the risk to the public from the troops versus the civilian aid workers. In fact, since we have been told that the troops did not deal directly with infected patients, unlike the aid workers, they should have a much lesser chance of carrying the disease.

Issues like whether the troops were in Africa voluntarily or are required to follow orders has absolutely nothing to do with science and the comparative rates of infectiousness or contagion.

Either asymptomatic individuals present a danger to the public or do not. A military uniform does not change medical science.