If a new, unindentified infectious disease outbreak occurred that proved to be deadly to all who became infected with the disease?

I would stay and tend my family (my immediate family). After all, I am certain, my family would do the same for me. Leaving them when they need me most in an act of utmost cruelty and selfishness.

Time like this is a trial of our love and loyalty to our family and we must not fail them. But if I was forced out of my home or forced away from my family if they were quarantined, there is nothing I could do about it and I would try to visit whenever I can. If I survived, I would always take care of my health for them.

I admit that I would stay away from my extended family so I wouldn't get infected. I don't have deep bond with them. I would help if I can as long as I am not at risk.

My immediate family, my children, my partner, yes. Anyone else in my home, yes. Outside my home if they were close and I could, possibly.

If I had to travel and risk everything for them, no. I'm a pragmatist but not too harsh...I hope blood is thicker than water, but only just :).

If I could ease their suffering as they died, yes I would stay and take care of immediate family. I would never forgive myself for not trying to offer them comfort, if I survived. If nothing else, I would want them to die with loved ones nearby, not shut up in an empty house or in some hospital surrounded by people in biohazard suits.

Even if I couldn't ultimately help them to survive, I would want it to be the easiest, most peaceful death possible, and if that caused me to get sick, I would at least die knowing I had been there for my family.

I think whether I would want to stay with them or not is completely irrelevant. They would be put under quarantine and I wouldn't be given a choice. In addition, what kind of family member would risk my life by insisting that I care for them?

Also, what kind of care could I possibly give them that a well paid medical professional couldn't provide in a superior manner? To me, this is kind of an open-and-shut question, so to speak. There is only one option that makes any sense, as all other options carry a high chance of unnecessary and preventable death.

If my son were an infected victim, I would stay. There is nothing, absolutely nothing that would prevent me from staying with my son. And the fact that he were ill, would make my decision even more concrete.

If my son were healthy, and my spouse were infected, I know they would insist I take him to a safer place, and I would oblige. My life is not worth saving, without my family. I would agree that this could potentially be creating just another victim, but I would use precautions and abide by whatever rules necessary to prevent an infection.

But I would stay with my son. This question closely resembles the movie "I Am Legend". Here, Wil Smith's character is an army scientist that is working toward a vaccine to prevent a devastating virus from infecting all of mankind.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.