[ExI] [Extropolis] tuberculosis

[Stuart LaForge]

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/is-it-a-crime-to-intentionally-get-someone-sick.html

If she knows she has a serious communicable disease and she spreads it  
intentionally or recklessly, then yes. Intentional or reckless  
behavior that spreads a disease with serious public health  
consequences—such as HIV, SARS, Ebola, or COVID-19—can result in  
criminal charges.

Stuart LaForge


Quoting William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat  
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>:

> 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
>
> On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 7:06 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 4:52 PM William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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. I
>>> will assume, awaiting your comments, that this is wrong according to
>>> libertarian principles which include not being a harm to others. But
>>> should she be held down and antibiotics forced on her?
>>>
>>
>> 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 *NOT* 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 cash needed in order to keep a fool safe. So she
>> should be given a choice, either take an injection of penicillin or take an
>> injection of cyanide.
>>
>> John K Clark
>>
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