West Africans in Washington say they are being stigmatized because of Ebola fear
Did the fellow who got up and moved away buy himself an increment of safety that was worth the trouble of getting up and moving away?
The subjective probability that that particular Liberian was ill and contagious seems slight, but the cost in case he was would be overwhelming.
So, rational?
Oh, I think so, given these two were random strangers thrown together on a public bus.
It was rational if quarantine ever is - and it oh so is.
Besides, public buses are cesspools of contagion, anyway.
As for those communities of West African immigrants, so long as there is relatively unrestricted travel to the US from West Africa they will be particular foci of danger, and that is just a plain fact to which we must hope the public health services are giving particular attention.
The PC police will rally to their defense, and people who express such concerns in public are apt to be abused and if possible punished, as have people who have expressed concerns about flying with young men in some way "visibly Muslim."
Actually, these concerns are considerably more well-founded than that.
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