[TheShaz]

What does the LAW say on cases like this. You test positive for COVID-19 and are asked to go into quarantine. But you refuse?

[MayflowerMadam]

“What does the LAW say on cases like this.”

I think the law says an American can’t be incarcerated without due process. At least that’s what some lawyer talking head said. Then you’d have to decide what constitutes “due process” in cases like this.

[hanamizu]

What does the LAW say on cases like this. You test positive for COVID-19 and are asked to go into quarantine. But you refuse?

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I am not a lawyer, but I imagine there are lots of laws on the books regarding quarantine dating back at least to the “Spanish” flu. Modern courts might well be inclined to strike them down, but I can’t see that happening in the middle of this crisis.

Wasn’t ‘Typhoid Mary’ pretty much locked away, even though she technically didn’t commit a crime?