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Comment author: RobertWiblin 18 January 2015 10:05:03PM 9 points [-]

When someone has an incurable and lethal respiratory illness, I think we do require them to stay in quarantine and this is broadly accepted. The reason this doesn't apply to HIV and other such diseases is that they are barely contagious.