Nothing like yelling fire in a movie theater. The military proposal is just part of the planning, which includes the military as well as the public health sector. Isolation is only one proposal. Thought not likely to be very effective in a society such as the US. There are other plans, such as stockpiling of anti-viral agents, supportive therapy agents (IV fluids, etc.) and mobile mass casualty hospitals. All in the event the virus does mutate to heman to human transmission and a vaccine is not developed. The high death rate of the 1916 epidemic probably will be lessened by the advances in supportive therapy of the 21st century. Even though there may be no vaccine to prevent the infection, good hospital care will probably save many which would have died in the past. To say the US is totally unprepared is probably not correct. To say the DR is on the same level of preparedness as the US is not correct also.