I get a bit peeved at people who see all of this as the government stripping them of their rights. Quarantine related measures are used to preserve the health and perhaps the life of others. It appears that it must be enforced since many image that their rights include infecting others with disease just because they have no self discipline.
That being said, I think the level of excitement this time is merely self preservation on the part of political animals. Nobody want to be viewed as "not doing anything".
“That being said, I think the level of excitement this time is merely self preservation on the part of political animals. Nobody want to be viewed as ‘not doing anything’”.
Exactly.
The problem is that it looks as though this is the first time that quarantine laws, with the threat of prosecution, have been applied to healthy people with no connection to the infected.
Make a sick person stay home - OK
Make a healthy person whose been around a sick person stay home - OK
Make a healthy person stay away from a sick person - OK
Make a healthy person with no know connection to anyone sick stay home - not OK
If they can make you stay home, or lose your livelihood for no reason other than you might get sick, what other reasons can they come up with to curtail your rights...for no reason?