Here is a Q&A regarding that level of measures. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dq/facts2.htm
Oh...and for all, note it is by Executive Order.
I did not. I'll post it here for the linkage click disenfranchised:
Who is in charge
The federal government
- Acts to prevent the entry of communicable diseases into the United States. Quarantine and isolation may be used at U.S. ports of entry.
- Is authorized to take measures to prevent the spread of communicable diseases between states.
- May accept state and local assistance in enforcing federal quarantine.
- May assist state and local authorities in preventing the spread of communicable diseases.
State, local, and tribal authorities
- Enforce isolation and quarantine within their borders.
It is possible for federal, state, local, and tribal health authorities to have and use all at the same time separate but coexisting legal quarantine power in certain events. In the event of a conflict, federal law is supreme.
Enforcement
If a quarantinable disease is suspected or identified, CDC may issue a federal isolation or quarantine order.
Public health authorities at the federal, state, local, and tribal levels may sometimes seek help from police or other law enforcement officers to enforce a public health order.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Coast Guard officers are authorized to help enforce federal quarantine orders.
Breaking a federal quarantine order is punishable by fines and imprisonment.
Federal law allows the conditional release of persons from quarantine if they comply with medical monitoring and surveillance.
Federal quarantine rarely used
Large-scale isolation and quarantine was last enforced during the influenza (“Spanish Flu”) pandemic in 1918–1919.
In recent history, only a few public health events have prompted federal isolation or quarantine orders:
- In 1963, a passenger arriving into the United States was placed under a federal quarantine order as a suspected case of smallpox.
- In 2007, a traveler with drug-resistant TB was placed in isolation.
During the 2003 outbreak of SARS, CDC did not issue isolation or quarantine orders. However, CDC did conduct active surveillance, visual screening of passengers, and handed out Travel Health Alert Notices.
First the kids, the children, are really being hit very hard by this virus. In those subject to the severe forms blood clots are forming in the lungs with death soon following. Keep in mind this is a virus and palliative care is about the best even a hospital can really do.
Second, the vaccine can take up to 3 weeks to become fully effective. I am sort of, of the opinion that the vaccine is way too late to do any sort of real good.
Third, we don't have enough vaccine. That my FRiend seals our fates in my humble opinion.
Fourth, they are talking about triage outside of hospitals to protect those in the hospitals. What if you need to be in the hospital? What if the hospital is full? FEMA camp for you?
Fifth, all of these issues lay the path to a Federal Quarantine.
The truth is if it gets that bad, really that bad and in this case it is a highly contagious disease...it really is the only way to handle it.
I've watched many of the virus threads here on FR. I am on the ping lists. One thing is clearly evident during a mass outbreak of anything, the government(s) lies. The numbers are corrupt and the information is sketchy. Don't count on anything in any reported news source. From observation of such events if they are setting up city, state, federal quarantines...it is worse than you realize.
That stated, 0bama will abuse this authority. Watch and see.