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Thanks, Ryan. Facts are worth sanctions, but whether they matter otherwise I will leave up to you.
If there is absolutely no asymptomatic carrier state for smallpox, then that is possibly relevant — for smallpox — but I doubt it. You certainly don't become infectious only after your doctor has diagnosed you and only after Obama's civil army has come to take you off to quarantine. My understanding is that infectivity precedes full blown incapacity.
Smallpox is only one example. There are plenty of other similarly deadly diseases like typhoid (not to virulent) with 10-50% mortality in untreated cases and other plagues and hemorrhagic fevers. Rubella, a virus rarely harms children and adults but kills newborns and causes miscarriage. Diptheria infection is slow to manifest but causes 5 to 20% mortality. These are not headline diseases in America because vaccination against them is required.
The Australia and New Zealand cases are due to the isolated nature of those countries and the fact that they are basically naturally distance-isolated quarantines. There were 8 million people in Australia in 1950. Few people with smallpox were arriving by airplane.
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