It is my intent with this blog to measure the need for public health policy balanced against the protection of…
One of the goals of this initiative has been to evaluate our civil liberties set against the state power of…
In this blog, we will be looking at quarantine as it exists at the moment. We might call it “Quarantine…
There is always a trade-off. Every policy written and enforced has unintended consequences. This is certainly true of public health…
During quarantine, which is authorized as a means to protect the well-being of the public through the state police power, our civil liberties are limited. Two such related liberties are the Freedom of Speech and Assembly secured by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Given recent events, the protection of quarantine for the public good has been set against another public health issue: racism, and the violence that is its too-frequent accompaniment.