<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Does anyone know if walking around in public with a deadly and infectious disease is illegal? If not, how can they hold her in jail? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 7:06 AM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 4:52 PM William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Perhaps you have seen the story: they finally caught up with a women who has acuteTB and has refused treatment. She was jailed for 45 days.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>I will assume, awaiting your comments, that this is wrong according to libertarian principles which include not being a harm to others.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>But should she be held down and antibiotics forced on her?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">I don't know the details of the story you're referring to but it sounds like a modern day version of Typhoid Mary. In general I think it makes a big difference if the disease in question is contagious or not. If the disease is not contagious then she certainly should <b>NOT</b> be forced to take the cure. But if it is contagious, as tuberculosis is, then the answer is more complicated. If she has the financial resources to put herself in isolation for the rest of her life then she should not be forced to take the cure, but if she does not have that much money then other people should not be forced to pay the <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">cash</span> needed in order to keep <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">a </span>fool safe. So she should be given a choice, either take an injection of penicillin or take an injection of cyanide.</font><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"> </font><br><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div></div>
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