Well, I went back to the Memorial thread and read the whole thing over again trying to figure out how we wound up with this thread and..y'know..? Seems to me the root of the problem had to do with SARS and public health and quarantine and... and I thought yeah, I can see how , in some circumstances, that might have seemed heavy handed and ...and then I thought hey, one minute here....so they don't quarantine anybody...so someone goes somewhere and picks up something and before they get actively ill they have supper with a family who has a kid who goes to the same kindergarten as my Emily. Emily and six other kids become infected. They take the infection home. Six other people in the house with Em are infected. Hevvin knows how many others infected by those other six kids. Some of Em's sibs go to high school and they take it to school and...it's extrapolated at this point to probably thirty or more active infectious people...and this is a dirty bug...and can be deadly...and if one of my grandbabies dies do you really think I'm going to give the first part of a shite about the possible inconveniences caused by quarantine?
I guess it's like that old saying It depends whose ox is being gored. But on a strictly personal level I'll go with quarantine if it gives that kindergarten class a better chance of surviving an epidemic of something downright ugly.
And I can't imagine how much guts it took to issue that order but I do hope I never have to find out because I am not sure I have that kind of guts. Because you can be sure the people whose bull got gored are going to raise holy old hell. And those of us whose babies were spared probably don't think to holler right back or to write a note of thank you.
I think she did the correct and right thing. And good on her.
