

You’re presuming the infection was known.
Your instinct is right, you shouldn’t move any infected person any distance. That just stresses them when they shouldn’t be, and migrates the disease.
But also flip it. Why would you actively go to a place that has had an outbreak of a disease, even though its subsided without first being vaccinated for it? That’s equally insane.



I’m confused at your point and the camp you refer to.
There was an outbreak in the US in multiple states, mostly TX where there was at least 1 death and hundreds hospitalized.
Then a boy from mexico travelled to TX to visit family, contracted the disease (but may not have shown symptoms yet), then returned home. That introduced the virus to a village of unvaccinated people, which created another outbreak and deaths occurred.
Its tragic. And the article points in many ways that vaccination / herd immunity would have prevented this. But that’s not always the world we live in.