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Originally Posted by Maximo  Political office holders consult experts in the decision making process, although obviously they are not required to do so. It's unlikely that a governor is sitting at his desk alone or relying only on his regular staff to make these decisions.
With regard to a potential health threat, public perception is not a negligible factor. You pointed this out in a couple of your posts. How much is pure politics and how much is genuine concern for public safety is a matter of debate.
No one wants to be the office holder who failed to act. There is a celebrity who is vocal about holding a particular US president personally responsible for the AIDS epidemic. |
....as opposed to laying personal responsibility for the AIDS epidemic on the generations who knew of the disease but still chose to hook up with strangers, often in establishments who hosted said activities for profit, to have unprotected sex? Or fail to blame the AIDS epidemic on the pandemic of drug dealers selling drugs/supplies to hordes of drug users in every country who then shared dirty needles with everyone within walking distance? Or shall we not blame the blood suppliers who failed to even properly test their blood supplies, long after they knew better?
All the while, far greater numbers of adults, teens, even little kids and babies, were dying from heart disease, crime, accidents, stroke and all forms of cancer,flu, pneumonia, etc., and all research foundations studying those diseases and their causes were begging for more funding.
Back then, when the disease was essentially an automatic death sentence, shouldn't the governors of the 50 states have been blamed by said celebrity for not acting like leaders and quarantining all those who were even possibly a risk to others due to being intimately exposed to HIV or for just being HIV positive - not even yet sick with the virus? Wouldn't that have been safer? Should those people all have been quarantined as Kaci Hickox was for possibility of the risk of causing an epidemic in this country and if not, why aren't all those governors to blame for allowing all those people infected with the virus or sick with it to live among everyone else and starting the AIDS epidemic in this country and then the world?
Interested to see where everyone who wants a quarantine for Ebola feels about an AIDS quarantine back in the day.