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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I am noticing is the PP defending Hickox not willing to answer whether or not others have a right to be free from her. Reason being, that's not what Hickox and her defenders are truly after. what they want is to deliver a message and to call others names.  Again the activism is most important to them. Typical[/quote]

We do not lock people up in this country because we have some kind of mythical right to be free from them. There is no such right. Government does have the ability to quarantine people in very, very limited circumstances. This one does not meet the legal requirements. If you want to be free from her, avoid her, but our constitution and our laws do not create rights to be free from people we are afraid of.  You keep bringing up this mythical right. It doesn't exist. What is a right is to be free from being locked up, unless a very limited set of circumstances exists.

There are at least dozens of people walking around our country, probably more, who have treated people with Ebola, here and in Africa, and they haven't been quarantined, self or otherwise. You are not free from them. You are not free from the guy with the flu who goes to work even though he is more of a danger to you. You are not free from the kids who go to school with your kids with colds.

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You reaaly do have no clue about the individual liberties afforded to each citizen. Pick up a Constitution and do some reading. I am not speaking of locking Hickox up. I am simply stating that she has the freedom to move about if not infectious and others have the freedom to avoid her. Unless you plan to force people to dine with her?  If so, how will you do that. Gunpoint?

If someone comes into my place of business with the flu, I can absolutely choose to walk away from said person. I can choose to keep my child away from an infectious person. Again, under what method will you choose to keep me or anyone else from walking away?  [/quote]

I think we've been saying throughout that you have every right to avoid this woman. Stay home. I'm guessing no one will miss you. As for the constitution, all it says on the subject has to do with depriving people of liberty (which includes forbidding you from leaving their homes) without just cause and due process.

So we are in agreement, it seems. Non-symptomatic people who have cared for Ebola patients have the same freedom everyone else has to go about as they please (and as they have been doing) and you have the right to avoid them. As if anyone said you MUST eat with them.[/quote]

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