Why Are Quarantines and Evacuations Sometimes an Ineffective Response to WMD

question 13

Multiple Choice

Why are quarantines and evacuations sometimes an ineffective response to WMD terrorism?

• A) Quarantines do not actually prevent disease from spreading and evacuations bottleneck highways.
• B) A lot of the people very susceptible to disease do not have cars.
• C) Most Americans are no longer watching TV for news and would probably not get the message in time.
• D) The public may not comply with quarantine or evacuation orders and, in fact, the imposition of a quarantine may make matters worse by generating panic where there was none.

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