Globe and Mail wrote:Ontario health officials are worried a SARS-infected health care professional who should have known better attended funeral and church services last week and may have infected “hundreds.”
Quarantine violations are extremely widespread, and they should have been enforced by the police from day one.
The fact is that when confronted with a situation in which people are told to inconvenience themselves, they will almost invariably fight it, no matter the cost to society. One of the "benefits" of a society that prizes individualism so much, I suppose ...
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
Authorities on Hong Kong had to restore to detaining people outside of the city after they didn't observe home based quarantines. But if doctors are doing it then things could get very bad. How are you supposed to get patients to do things you won't do yourself?
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
I'd like to know what kind of healthcare worker this belligerant person is. A lot of physicians can be arrogant but I would hope they wouldn't be that stupid. As for anyone below a doctor, they could be that stupid.
I would also like to hear the healthcare worker's side of the story just to hear why they thought they shouldn't be quarantined.
By the pricking of my thumb,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks.
