I’m all for public safety, but we need to exercise caution whenever we cheer the state infringing on anyone’s rights. just because we perceive some do-gooder nurse as a liberal “peace corp” anti-american brat, does not mean we should cheer the state taking her 4 amendment rights away.
The state must have clear, unambiguous evidence of an imminent threat before anyone’s rights are abridged, from her 4th amendment rights, to your second amendment ones. I’m not certain that threshold has been reached.
there is no right to walk around freely after exposure to a contagious, deal disease. I would welcome any cite you have to the contrary.
“we need to exercise caution whenever we cheer the state infringing on anyone’s rights”. You are correct but public health is pretty close to where I draw the line. A twenty-one day quarantine is not a prison sentence. I would be more inclined to see this as a legitimate civil rights issue if the nurse had not clearly gone into serious grandstanding mode.
I agree with you.
The first Ebola patient was in-country for a little over 2 weeks,the nurses who came down with the disease were showing symptoms within 10-14 days of the index patients death; this person has been in-country less than a week she can’t know for certain if she is infected yet & her attitude means that she is a potential “Typhoid Mary”. And nobody needs that.
Apparently you don’t think there is any correlation between repeated “contact exposure” and likelihood of contracting the virus or the contagion threat possibility prior to hard symptoms.
Quarantine is for the public welfare.