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Great 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,
by claytongulick 5y ago
Great 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...