[Iscool]

You have a 105 year old SCOTUS precedent upholding such emergency powers as constitutional, saying that communities have the right to protect themselves against threats such as contagious diseases.

I don't think they meant that the gov't could lock you in your house to keep the disease at bay...I suspect they meant you, the individual could use what means/force were necessary to keep diseased people from entering your house, including gov't thugs who could very well bring the disease with them...

[DannyTN]

If the state wants to make that distinction they need to encode it in the law.

Two centuries of law guide legal approach to modern pandemic>