“Not necessarily the executive branch although they should be limiting travel, but for sure states should have the option.”
It is the Executive Branch, which of course is Obama, that is the only political entity in the country that may have the power to impose a quarantine.
And here we have Conservatives essentially saying, “Please Mr. Obama, start forcing American citizens into locked quarantine and we don’t care about the science, we just want you to use your own arbitrary standards of who who you lock up in quarantine and please do not use Due Process.”
“It is the Executive Branch, which of course is Obama, that is the only political entity in the country that may have the power to impose a quarantine.”
Are you sure? One would think a county health department would have the ability buried in their regs somewhere. I can understand a national entity having the ability in the event something big struck, like if ebola goes airborne, but monitoring and enforcement would have to be local and so that would seem they would have the ability.
I don’t understand the hubbub. Frankly, this person was asked to stay home and watch tv for 3 weeks. Not like she was being put in a padded cell.