[grania]

FWIW, this was during the swine flu epidemic that started about five years ago. It was weird. Nobody wore masks. It was very unsanitary, as no one wanted to risk contact with infected patients and because of tubes, etc, we couldn't get up and clean themselves. They knew after one day I didn't have swine flu, but kept me there until they tried lots of other things until I had lung surgery for a lung that's been bad for decades (I thought it was normal). The other problem in quarantine is they had 100% control over medical decisions.

FWIW, if there's ever a quarantine situation, I would advise against getting medical care unless you're accompanied by someone to keep you out of forced quarantine.

[exDemMom]

I would hate to think that there could be an infectious disease with high mortality, and people resist quarantine. Such selfish actions could turn a controllable outbreak into something that spreads beyond control.

With all of our advances in medical knowledge, we are still barely a step ahead of infectious disease. It wasn’t that long ago when infectious disease was a major cause of death. Even now, infectious diseases make up 3 of the top 10 causes of death worldwide.