Should Isolation Periods Be Shorter for People With Covid-19?

1SG (Join to see) There are already laws in place, the problem is that the authorities are not starting with the basic step of actually issuing quarantine orders. Instead of issuing orders to the ill and possibly ill (possible carriers) they are asking people or demanding people to isolate themselves whether they are ill or not. Demanding or mandating that people that are not ill or of known exposure is the sticking point to many people and is a violation of their rights as well.
Bottom line, the authorities are not exercising their lawfully mandated enforcement powers.

We do not need more laws in this area.

SSG Robert Webster - My point is that they are attempting to enforce a form of curfew on everybody, infectious or not, by executive fiat. That is unconstitutional in many states.

1SG (Join to see) - Exactly and that is why they appear to have deliberately lost control at the beginning of this, by not enforcing their legal authority in an appropriate manner.

What does it say in the current law - those that are proven to be ill, those that have been in known contact with those so diagnosed, and those that have traveled in a defined known infectious area being actually placed under a quarantine order.

They had the legal authority to do so, and still do. The problem as you have noted is that they are not using their given power appropriately within the law. Only if they would properly execute the office that they have been appointed to; and that goes from the local health authority, to the state health authority, to the national health authorities at the CDC, the NIH, and ending at the Office of the Surgeon General (USPHS).

COL (Join to see) Here is the thing though - To legally quarantine someone in the US (and in most other localities, like Germany and France) the individual either has to be ill, to have been in known contact with, or come from an area with an infection. The key to the third one (which is actually the one that causes all or most of the ruckus) is actual enforcement; and guess who was against actual enforcement in the beginning? The very 'experts' and other senior political leaders that are screaming about it now, yet are still not actively participating or enforcing it; and that includes many in the medical community, especially those in health enforcement.

Lt Col Charlie Brown Thank you, thank you, thank you.