Clash Daily by Wes Walker
Back in those early days of the pandemic, when health officials started talking about their interest in involuntary quarantine, the natural question many of us asked was — is this virus really as bad as other viruses for which such an extreme measure is already an accepted practice?
TB, for instance, is the kind of illness that both so transmissible AND such a menace to those who contract it (Not just the lethality, but the difficulty in treating/recovering from it) that there are specific laws on the books to deal with it, including the forfeiture of certain rights and freedoms.
With the emergence of drug-resistant strains of TB, those aggressive safeguards become even more important in a disease that has historically killed so many…
