-and you know what Judge? My brother may not be here today if I wasn’t quarantined when I was 5 with scarlet fever and strep and encephalitis. My mom had just given birth to my brother and I got sick while she was in the hospital. I don’t remember much, but my mom told me she couldn’t come home with my new brother and no one could visit or leave the house (except the dr)-this was in the early 60s when drs actually made house calls-and there was a piece of paper stuck on the door and on the doorbell-I always imagined it to be a big ‘Q’-telling the world the house was under quarantine...”it was hard”, my mom said, “but that’s life!”
Sometimes I think it was a vacation for her- because my dad was suddenly stuck at home with 3 little kids!
But if my mom had just decided she wanted to be at home no matter what-and taken my newborn brother home-he may not be here today.
So suppose we do have an outbreak of some kind-are we now going to have to take every single person to court when trying to institute a quarantine? Ebola Lawyers-the new specialty!
Take that up with the Maine legislature. Maine law requires a court order to institute a mandatory quarantine.