Man Locked Up for Crime of TB

[Kirk Freeman]

Man infected with TB was jailed in Central Illinois for disobeying a court order that he remain at home.

Infectious TB patient jailed in central Illinois : State

 

[eldirector]

Wouldn't knowingly infecting folks with TB be a crime?

I seem to recall something similar in IC.

 

[HoughMade]

This is as old as quarantines.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Our Liberty is at stake and you are cracking wise!

All the prisoner needs is to touch the hemline of Ron Paul or to sweep his floors and he will be cured. But noooo, because of The System he has to be in jail.

 

[Jack Burton]

Back in the day when infectious diseases caused more deaths than society wanted to deal with it was common for carriers to be legally isolated. My father's first wife died in a TB sanitarium she was confined to while he was away fighting the Japs. The best known case is Typhoid Mary about 100 years ago.

It used to be that the immigrants were strictly checked for any kind of communicable sickness at all, and turned away at the borders. Over the past few decades this has not taken place, and along with the illegal immigrents many new and treatment resistant forms of TB have made a comeback in our country. It would not surprise me at all to find out that the laws that allowed involuntary confinement are still on the books.

Those that are young just don't understand the horror and outright terror our parents felt about these killer diseases.

 

[jdmack79]

Our Liberty is at stake and you are cracking wise!

All the prisoner needs is to touch the hemline of Ron Paul or to sweep his floors and he will be cured. But noooo, because of The System he has to be in jail.

There are bigger issues out there that you could be worrying about Kirk. I hear that there is someone who doesn't think that an 870 will discharge with your finger off of the trigger!

 

[hoosierdoc]

Generally these are people who are not good about taking medications. Generally these are people who have a multi-drug-resistant strain of TB and Are not taking her medications as they should. They are risk to the population when they're out and about. The solution is to do direct observational therapy and watch the pill go into his mouth. I guarantee there is much more to the story that is not being released.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

guarantee there is much more to the story that is not being released.

You are in violation of the INGO Rules of Evidence and I strike your reasonable statement and move to insert "he was kidnapped by the System and should be free to infect all of Illinois".

 

[steveh_131]

What diseases do you guys think should result in forced confinement such as this?

 

[Llamaguy]

He wasn't arrested or locked up for being sick, he was locked up for knowingly exposing others to a deadly pathogen despite warnings to stay home.

 

[steveh_131]

Is a court order to remain in your home not a form of 'confinement'?

 

[Llamaguy]

What diseases do you guys think should result in forced confinement such as this?

For a start, how about those that can be spread by simply being in the same room and can kill you?

 

[88GT]

For a start, how about those that can be spread by simply being in the same room and can kill you?

For starters? You mean you'd willingly consider additional ones outside that standard?

Here's the list of potentially fatal airborne communicable diseases:
pulmonary tuberculosis
influenza
measles
meningitis
varicella
diptheria
pertussis

 

[BehindBlueI's]

As far as I know, nothing in the Constitution is a suicide pact. If you have something that can easily spread via breathing and infect a community with a potentially fatal disease, stay home. If you choose to ignore that, expect to be confined.

 

[BogWalker]

Is a court order to remain in your home not a form of 'confinement'?

It is. He's in jail because he broke that court order. He could have stayed in his own home.

If you want we could probably arrange for you to live with an infectious TB patient somewhere. I'm sure you wouldn't have a problem with it.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

This thread's subject is vaguely familiar.

 

[level.eleven]

Only one anarchist is missing to complete the triad.

Mom must be late with dinner.

 

[jdmack79]

Could I use deadly force to protect myself from someone with TB who could potentially infect me with a fatal disease?

 

[hoosierdoc]

To be fair, it's spread by sputum/respiratory particles, not breathing. It's also why it had been illegal to spit on the ground. The spores hang around forever it seems.

 

[drillsgt]

Back in the day when infectious diseases caused more deaths than society wanted to deal with it was common for carriers to be legally isolated. My father's first wife died in a TB sanitarium she was confined to while he was away fighting the Japs. The best known case is Typhoid Mary about 100 years ago.

It used to be that the immigrants were strictly checked for any kind of communicable sickness at all, and turned away at the borders. Over the past few decades this has not taken place, and along with the illegal immigrents many new and treatment resistant forms of TB have made a comeback in our country. It would not surprise me at all to find out that the laws that allowed involuntary confinement are still on the books.

Those that are young just don't understand the horror and outright terror our parents felt about these killer diseases.

The few rare cases of rabies you may see in the US in a year are usually immigrants.