Quarantine necessary?

Journal/Blog: Was a Quarantine Necessary?  Can you hold people against their will? 

Quarantine was required because the bacteria that were infecting these people were thought to be the same bacteria that started the bubonic plague; which killed millions and spread rapidly. Quarantine was also said to have started because of the bubonic plague.

Associate Professor in urban health at Hunter College school of Health Sciences said that "the organism gets in the lung....that allows it to be transmitted by coughing" when discussing the bacteria and how it goes from human to human. 

It is said that the bacteria know is not as big of threat as it was back in medieval times, it is better to be cautious still. Getting quarantined is still needed. Let’s say that this bacterium is not as contagious as it was in earlier centuries, its ability to replicate rapidly can still infect others and overtime spread.

We all have "free will" so to some quarantining others may not be a legal act but it is a necessary one. If others were to be able to get the cure only if they wanted it, not only are that senseless because some people would not quarantine themselves, but it is also selfish to let others determine whether they want to infect innocent victims with this disease that could possibly take away their life. 

As a victim of this bacterium, as hard as it may be for me to separate myself from my family and be alone with other diseased ones, if this meant keeping the bacteria away from the rest of the population so that nothing happened to them, I would have no problem being quarantined. Others should have this outlook as well when discussing the topic of whether quarantine was vital or not.