The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #151677   Message #3548583
Posted By: Bobert
13-Aug-13 - 10:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: Reinforcing respectful 'boundaries'
Subject: RE: BS: Reinforcing respectful 'boundaries'
There are ways to protect individual rights of privacy while also protecting the society on the whole from infectious diseases...

I mean, wouldn't you want to know if a kid your kids are playing with is infected with something like TB??? I would...

I remember getting the Salk vaccine in the 50s with every other kid in my school... I'm sure that the Michele Bachmann's of the world would think that was wrong... But it stopped polio in its tracks... Was that right thing to do??? Yeah, it was...

Here's where the libertarians change their minds about mandatory testing: When half the people they know have died from an infectious disease... Then they are saying, "Someone should have done something about this"...

B~