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The five paragraphs up to that point are engaging with the explicit reasons that Laurie Garrett gave in the linked article. It's almost as if you made no attempt to understand the article and just mined for quotes.
I think the analysis that an r<1 disease is more stoppable by quarantine than an r>1 disease is correct, and that Cochran is right and Garrett is wrong when it comes to comparing ebola to the flu. As a factoid about someone being wrong in the media, it is of tepid interest to LW. If it were only this, I would simply say that this probably belongs in the open thread.
My desire to see it on this site becomes negative only because of the author's habit of insulting all people and major organizations that disagree with him rather than expressing even one google-search's worth of curiosity in what the CDC's argument is.