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And yet, quarantine of infected people/places has a long, long history in the US. Weird.
by disgruntledphd2 5y ago
And yet, quarantine of infected people/places has a long, long history in the US. Weird.
- claytongulick 5y agoGreat point! Like when we put barbed wire up in Chinatown, San Francisco in 1900 after allowing all the white people to leave? [1] Or when we incarcerated 30,000 women in WWI because they may be "unclean" and held them even after their mandatory STD tests came back negative? [1] Or what we did to immigrant Russian Jews in 1892? [2] Did you know that up until 2009 we banned HIV positive people from entering the U.S.? [2] Yes, of course the U.S. has a long history of quarantine. We also have a long history of abusing those powers for racist and political reasons. The PA Supreme Court, at least, agrees. [3] [1] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/10/30/360120406/awful-moments-in-quarantine-history-remember-typhoid-mary https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/10/30/3601204... [2] https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/cure-worse-disease https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/cure-worse-dise... [3] https://www.alston.com/en/insights/publications/2020/09/constitutional-challenges-to-pandemic/ https://www.alston.com/en/insights/publications/2020/09/cons...