But the sort of bizarre notion of freedom that i should have the freedom to infect you with a deadly disease, we accept constraints on our daily life all the time. i'm not allowed to drive drunk, you know, but it's life-standing to say that i shouldn't be able to drive drunk. it's connected to this wild idea that i should be able to do regardless of its effect on you. that was another strain on it. would my characters ever predict that? no. the doctors in the cdc never would have anticipated the cdc failing the way it failed. so they didn't see it all, but they had a sense like, we're not as p...