“(The arrival home of) Kaci Hickox ... was a perfect teachable moment. Officials in Maine had the chance to present solid, science-based information about the disease: how it spreads, how it shows up in someone who's been infected and how low the infection risk is for the general public. But the opportunity for rational dialogue has been missed.”
—Portland (Maine) Press Herald, Oct. 29
“Quarantines are a matter of policy more than science—that is, balancing the costs of overreacting to a genuine risk against the benefits of reasonable precautions. The liberals who are ostentatiously portraying these trade-offs as akin to the suspension of habeas corpus are damaging science and especially public safety.”
—Wall Street Journal, Oct. 29
