Sorry but I find these to be extremely poor analogies.
In most countries people with active, open TB are hospitalised and looked after in respiratory isolation until they've had several days of anti-TB therapy and are no longer infectious. That's a reasonable measure and the vast majority of hospitalised TB patients don't pass on their infection to others. No panic. In many places it's mandatory for health care workers to have had the BCG vaccine (against TB). TB cannot be compared to Ebola.
And neither can AIDS. AIDS is a pandemic, not an epidemic. Quarantine would have been and still is totally unnecessary as to limit its spread you limit at risk behaviours, that's all. Without HIV testing the whole world you wouldn't know who to quarantine anyway. What was missing in the early days was education and adequate access to counselling, testing, condoms, needle exchange etc. As somebody else has pointed out, society didn't really care if it was only gays and drug addicts dropping dead. And a few Haitians? Well they're black, and poor, and not going to enrich the pharmaceutical industry particularly, and there perhaps we have the reason why we've to date not seen massive funds put into researching diseases like Ebola, Malaria etc.
Ebola is not new. But we've waited until we we perceive a potential threat to ourselves to get upset about it. Funny that.
