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Comment author: gattsuru 01 October 2014 04:15:44PM 3 points [-]

Except people normally don't dismiss quarantines. They just did it for this particular disease.

Is that the case? We're happy to quarantine highly-transmittable diseases, but HIV isn't -- it takes significantly more than shaking a hand or coughing to transmit. Indeed, even with easily transmitted conditions like tuberculosis, we go for involuntary quarantine only during emergencies or as a last resort. Most carriers are only required to wear masks and avoid certain types of work.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 October 2014 04:24:48PM 1 point [-]

Indeed, ebola is even less transmittable than HIV, so we shouldn't coercively quarantine it either.