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This would give unelected officials the power to detain people "suspected" of having a disease. I would much rather live in a world where the government does not have that power.

All the government has to do is declare a medical emergency (which they can do arbitrarily) and they can entirely subvert the justice system. This is the kind of thing conspiracy theorists have been laughed at for fearing, and now people like you openly support these authoritarian policies.



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