But you are damned if you do, damned if you don't if you are a liberal government. There has just been a new thread started saying Abbott has "squibbed it" by not sending over medical teams.
As I see it the West must do whatever it takes to control the outbreak, and beat it, within Africa. Making it difficult for medical and others to return home would be counter productive, and by closing borders you are putting already desperately poor people even further behind the 8 ball. We must not do anything to weaken their economies further, rather the reverse.