[Rodney King]

What’s the problem? Do you think the government should be able to detain you for the rest of your life without so much as a trial? We are talking about the gov’t folks. The same people who run the post office and the DMV. Are you really sure they are focused on making sure that they are only detaining you as long as necessary? Are you comfortable that if they order you detained that they won’t just forget about you?

[Ace of Spades]

Of course. If this guy was a Freeper, everyone would rail about the abuse of power and injustice of it all. It’s interesting to note that he’s not fighting to be released, just to get moved out of jail when he hasn’t been accused of a crime.

[MEGoody]

Well, Rodney, you can always offer to open your home so this fellow can be quaranteened there.

[ejonesie22]

From reading the article this Daniels character is acting recklessly, both in refusing to follow medical orders pertaining to communicable disease treatment and exposure. So to answer your question, in the particular case, yes they should be able to detain you until your are no longer a public health risk. There is no evidence that there is an intent to detain him for the rest of his life, except of course it the TB is not cured before he passes.

If indeed his TB is not treatable as it seems to indicate is possible since they are looking at “last chance” treatment, do we give him a day pass to run to the mall one last time? I think not. This is one of those true “greater good” moments.