I agree, there is something seriously wrong here and how it continues is beyond me. Take my kid, I get my gun and take him back.
It is so odd that it would be a relief for them to say something as awful as, “Actually, she’s the carrier of a rare, deadly, and transmissible disease, and we thought we could get away with secretly quarantining her.”
At least then this would make some kind of sense.
As it is, it’s just about the exercise of raw power in an unbelievably stupid demonstration of a government temper tantrum.