Quarantine is not a human rights invader, but a shield to guard your friends, family and loved ones. It’s merely a tool to ensure your safety and a guardian to watch your back from uncertainty. This look into the past on the conception and birth of the method of quarantine will prove the necessity for the argued protection. An exactly situation will be discuss proving the need for this method of control and covering the very laws that allow the government to enforce isolation and quarantine procedures. Most importantly this essay will highlight why this method of control isn’t a civil rights invader and educate on the child saving, mother saving and family saving importance of quarantine …show more content…
The article from Law Practice TODAY says “The Public Health Service (PHS) Act, limited by Executive Order 13,295, authorizes the Secretary of the Department of health and Human Services (HHS) to declare a public health emergency and take appropriate responsive action to “prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases. “In practice, however states and local jurisdictions assume primary responsibility for instituting public health protective measures under the Tenth Amendment “police power”. However, only certain diseases allow them to have the ability to use the power entrusted to them and that list resides on the “Executive Order of the President”. So how can something that has been included in the Constitution, which was created to protect civil rights make an Amendment that some believe invades their …show more content…
About Quarantine and Isolation. 10 January 2012. Web. .
This is simply the CDC 's definition of the terms and gives reference to additional papers for fourth information. It touches on travel restrictions but nothing worth trying to use without referencing an additional source.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. History of Quarantine. 10 January 2012. Web. .
This source goes into the history on how and why quarantine came into exists. It covers specific outbreaks that caused for the need of a preventative method to control the spread of the disease. This source is a timeline of events that have lead the method of quarantine to what it is today.
Markovits, Daniel. "Quarantines and Distributive Justice." Paper 417. 2005.
Talks more about the law support between the need for quarantine and/or vaccinations. Breaks down the need for both and shows stats on cost, and individual burden. The author is trying to identify which is more effective which shows through the report the difficultly of this because he is trying to compare a method used to prevent the contracting of the disease and one used to prevent the