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malaise

(297,905 posts) Wed Oct 29, 2014, 07:55 PM Oct 2014

If they can quarantine a visibly healthy nurse with no sign or [View all]

symptom of a disease, it will be very easy to take away more of our freedoms.
This is very scary.

Pity they never showed this enthusiasm for the deaths by guns.

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If they can quarantine a visibly healthy nurse with no sign or [View all] malaise Oct 2014 OP

Ultimately, no they cannot. She will win this battle. morningfog Oct 2014 #1

I hope so malaise Oct 2014 #2

You keep on repeatedly stating that it's clear she'll win in court, but that does not make it so. branford Oct 2014 #5

On due process and equal protection, she'll win. morningfog Oct 2014 #8

Im not a lawyer, but what about this Travis_0004 Oct 2014 #11

What part of 'with' do I not understand? GeorgeGist Oct 2014 #13

The provision is of little value without the implementing regulations branford Oct 2014 #16

That's why Kaci Hickox is such a brave woman Warpy Oct 2014 #3

Exactly! Thank you for this. Your post is better worded than my similar one earlier. uppityperson Oct 2014 #4

Same crap rational used to confine Japanese citizens in WWII. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #6

Not really, and if you recall, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the internment. branford Oct 2014 #17

The court at the time upheld the internment. NutmegYankee Oct 2014 #30

You may want to have a look at this little gem Skidmore Oct 2014 #7

Life as we knew it malaise Oct 2014 #10

Good god. woo me with science Oct 2014 #27

They'll haul your ass off while saying, "You look a little peaked this morning." Major Hogwash Oct 2014 #9

Reminds me of when the Soviets CanonRay Oct 2014 #12

That's what "quarantine" is. Spider Jerusalem Oct 2014 #14

How close are we to "You look African, so you and your family are quarantined." nt kelliekat44 Oct 2014 #15

Not even remotely close, and the hyperbole is unhelpful to the discussion. branford Oct 2014 #19

Ebola does not care but the public does. Quick search gives me these incidents.... uppityperson Oct 2014 #22

Anecdotes are not data or proof of pervasive trends. branford Oct 2014 #23

Since Obama is from Kenya, we've already crossed that line a looooonnnngggg time ago!!! Major Hogwash Oct 2014 #29

This is how we have the NSA spying on us now. cwydro Oct 2014 #18

my god. we fuckin went thru this stupid with tsa nad patriot. we were fcukin cowards. i stopped seabeyond Oct 2014 #20

Since when do public health officials not have the right to quarantine? LostInAnomie Oct 2014 #21

they have a right to quarantine, but it must be based on medical science, not political polls magical thyme Oct 2014 #24

I don't see anybody on DU really looking into the laws treestar Oct 2014 #25

I did, and the science doesn't. magical thyme Oct 2014 #34

So you didn't feel like looking at the laws treestar Oct 2014 #35

I relied on a civil rights lawyer, who did look at the laws. magical thyme Oct 2014 #36

Fear is the fastest way to lose freedom... vicdoc Oct 2014 #26

Good post malaise Oct 2014 #31

We are nothing more than a society that answers TO, works FOR, and gets punished BY a government. cherokeeprogressive Oct 2014 #28

So you are wishing that they would violate an entirely different set of rights... Oktober Oct 2014 #32

Do I sense a panic of gov't taking away freedoms?? boston bean Oct 2014 #33