I’m still looking. I did find a legal opinion from a Kentucky legal group that forms the basis for legal involuntary quarantine. It referenced the Ebola scare but should be applicable to any infectious disease that fits the criterion.
This has huge implications for the basis of the denial of individual rights. I hope that President Trump is the man that I think he is.
June 01, 2015
Quarantines In Kentucky: The State’s Role, Rights, and Responsibilities
Stites & Harbison Client Alert, June 1, 2015
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by John W. Pollom
There are Federal mandatory quarantine laws on the books:
https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-42-the-public-health-and-welfare/42-usc-sect-264.html
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2003-04-09/pdf/03-8832.pdf