Tracking the Ill
January 23rd, 2009. Filed under: Finance & Fitness Fridays.I read that A 20-year-old man in Champaign, Ill will be outfitted with a tracking device that can track his movements. So, is he under house arrest for some kind of crime? No, he’s ill. The man has TB, but will still have his movements restricted until he completes treatment. The only thing this man has going for him right now is the fact that the local health district will be picking up the tab for it all, including his medication and rent. Does he have a say in any of this? Well, he does have a choice. He can go to jail instead. All this because he might spread the disease. Has anyone checked on all the irresponsible people who are HIV positive or have AIDS? Are we going to start putting them under house arrest? What if they have visitors come to the house. Is there going to be someone guarding this man to make sure no one comes in and gets breathed on? What about the children who end up with chicken pox or measles? Are we going to toss them into juvie? When something like this starts, where does it stop? You can read this United Press International story here.
January 24th, 2009 at 07:13
I am assuming he has a potent strain, the sick have been quarantined through the ages, something must be done. I must believe signs explaining his condition and protective equipment are made available at his home.
HIV as you are well aware is acquired through contact with contaminated body fluids from sexual encounters, lifestyle changes are required to stem the spread of AIDS; both parties engaging in unprotected sex are responsible for their actions now that there’s so much information circulating on the virus. The bedrooms or tyrst spots of irresponsible human beings cannot be policed, praise God HIV is not airborne as TB.
January 24th, 2009 at 10:30
its a law
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/laws/phsvcact/phsvcact.htm
-EXEC-
EX. ORD. NO. 12452. REVISED LIST OF QUARANTINABLE COMMUNICABLE
DISEASES
Ex. Ord. No. 12452, Dec. 22, 1983, 48 F.R. 56927, provided:
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution
and laws of the United States of America, including Section 264(b)
of Title 42 of the United States Code, it is hereby ordered as
follows:
Section 1. Based upon the recommendation of the National Advisory
Health Council and the Assistant Secretary for Health of the
Department of Health and Human Services, and for the purposes of
specifying certain communicable diseases for regulations providing
for the apprehension, detention, or conditional release of
individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of
communicable diseases, the following named communicable diseases
are hereby specified pursuant to Section 264(b) of Title 42 of the
United States Code: Cholera or suspected Cholera, Diphtheria,
infectious Tuberculosis, Plague, suspected Smallpox, Yellow Fever,
and suspected Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (Lassa, Marburg, Ebola,
Congo-Crimean, and others not yet isolated or named).
Sec. 2. Executive Order No. 9708 of March 26, 1946, Executive
Order No. 10532 of May 28, 1954, and Executive Order No. 11070 of
December 12, 1962, are hereby revoked. Ronald Reagan.
January 24th, 2009 at 22:46
Thank you for that information, Nova. That’s the first I’ve heard of anything like that.