The idea of jailing someone for 21 days -- which is what a forced quarantine would be -- is foreign to our constitutional idea of liberty, but a voluntary quarantine would not work. Much as I am against government taking away any of our rights, I find myself on the side of a forced quarantine.
I have experienced a quarantine, and it is no fun. When I was about 12, scarlet fever struck our family, infecting six of the seven children. A big orange sign was nailed to the front of the house, warning people not to visit us. We felt like pariahs -- we could not visit anyone including going to school, and no one could visit us for weeks.
Adults and children over 12 are usually immune to the disease, but adults can infect children. That is what happened to us. A man whose grandchildren had scarlet fever but never reported it lifted up in his arms two our siblings too young for school.
I have experienced a quarantine, and it is no fun. When I was about 12, scarlet fever struck our family, infecting six of the seven children. A big orange sign was nailed to the front of the house, warning people not to visit us. We felt like pariahs -- we could not visit anyone including going to school, and no one could visit us for weeks.
Adults and children over 12 are usually immune to the disease, but adults can infect children. That is what happened to us. A man whose grandchildren had scarlet fever but never reported it lifted up in his arms two our siblings too young for school.
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