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As I'm sure you have considered, issues relating to racism and homophobia come into play.
Why? Is it rational to let them influence the issue in any way? In your personal value system, is a relatively heightened chance of dying from an infectious disease preferable to being thought of as racist or homophobic? How high does it have to get until that's no longer the case?
Moloch is at work here. Pretend that all open American racists advocate quarantining U.S. Ebola victims, and I'm not a racist but I do believe in quarantining. My opinion on quarantining will have almost no impact on U.S. policy, but will cause people to increase their estimate of my being a racist so it's in my self-interest to either oppose quarantining or to keep silent on the issue since I don't want to be perceived as racist. If all non-racist do this than supporting quarantining is strong evidence you are a racist.