Comments on: Free to be TB? http://markontheworld.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/free-to-be-tb/ My parents left their Mark on the world, and that would be me. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:08:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Markie http://markontheworld.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/free-to-be-tb/#comment-22 Markie Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:06:43 +0000 http://markontheworld.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/free-to-be-tb/#comment-22 Sian, Good points. I guess my feeling is that if we have to possibly expose people just to give this guy one more try, I'm not comfortable with that. I just can't buy the story that he didn't "get it". It sounds like the only thing keeping him from continuing to do whatever he wants is the fact that he *can't*. Sian,

Good points.

I guess my feeling is that if we have to possibly expose people just to give this guy one more try, I’m not comfortable with that. I just can’t buy the story that he didn’t “get it”. It sounds like the only thing keeping him from continuing to do whatever he wants is the fact that he *can’t*.

]]> By: Sian http://markontheworld.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/free-to-be-tb/#comment-21 Sian Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:24:27 +0000 http://markontheworld.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/free-to-be-tb/#comment-21 The only thing that makes me uncomfortable is the fact they are holding him indefinately without any sort of due process. I don't see why they can't charge him with (willful?) endangerment or, if there is any evidence that he has transmitted his strain of TB to someone, with actual bodily harm or attempted murder. Then it would go to court and the evidence could be weighed up as to whether or not he had understood the terms of his quarantine/gravity of his illness. If he was found not guilty he could be released and if he screwed up again, even once, on his quarantine conditions (which would be court-ordered this time, as opposed to voluntary which they were originally), it would be well beyond reasonable doubt that he should be confined. I'm all for stopping the spread of disease but I think I feel worse about legal detention without trial! The only thing that makes me uncomfortable is the fact they are holding him indefinately without any sort of due process. I don’t see why they can’t charge him with (willful?) endangerment or, if there is any evidence that he has transmitted his strain of TB to someone, with actual bodily harm or attempted murder. Then it would go to court and the evidence could be weighed up as to whether or not he had understood the terms of his quarantine/gravity of his illness. If he was found not guilty he could be released and if he screwed up again, even once, on his quarantine conditions (which would be court-ordered this time, as opposed to voluntary which they were originally), it would be well beyond reasonable doubt that he should be confined.

I’m all for stopping the spread of disease but I think I feel worse about legal detention without trial!

]]> By: Markie http://markontheworld.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/free-to-be-tb/#comment-20 Markie Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:17:35 +0000 http://markontheworld.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/free-to-be-tb/#comment-20 Judy, That was my thinking too. She refused to believe she was a threat, and ignored the facts. Judy,

That was my thinking too. She refused to believe she was a threat, and ignored the facts.

]]> By: Judy http://markontheworld.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/free-to-be-tb/#comment-19 Judy Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:09:15 +0000 http://markontheworld.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/free-to-be-tb/#comment-19 Did you know that Typhoid Mary was incarcerated for precisely the same reasons as this man. OK, it was Typhoid and not TB, but she too declined to protect those around her. Did you know that Typhoid Mary was incarcerated for precisely the same reasons as this man. OK, it was Typhoid and not TB, but she too declined to protect those around her.

]]> By: Change of Shift: Volume One, Number Nineteen // Emergiblog http://markontheworld.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/free-to-be-tb/#comment-18 Change of Shift: Volume One, Number Nineteen // Emergiblog Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:08:03 +0000 http://markontheworld.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/free-to-be-tb/#comment-18 [...] nurse Markie presents a public health care dilemma in Free to be TB? posted at Mark On The World. How would you handle this [...] [...] nurse Markie presents a public health care dilemma in Free to be TB? posted at Mark On The World. How would you handle this [...]

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