Originally Posted By: bws48
...our military are going to be quarantined for 21 days when (or actually before) they return, but apparently civilian travelers will not be, or at least will be let to "self monitor."

This article says that the Joint Chiefs Chairman's suggestion to monitor soldiers for 21 days in Italy is because it is simpler and more efficient to just uniformly order all of them to keep separate from other service members and the public for 3 weeks than it would be to assess each person's risk on a case-by-case basis and to actively monitor the higher risk ones.

Ummm, OK. I guess that makes sense. Just order everyone to stay out of sight and be sure. It's the same thing when trying to import your dog into many countries.