Like when we put barbed wire up in Chinatown, San Francisco in 1900 after allowing all the white people to leave? [1]
Or when we incarcerated 30,000 women in WWI because they may be "unclean" and held them even after their mandatory STD tests came back negative? [1]
Or what we did to immigrant Russian Jews in 1892? [2]
Did you know that up until 2009 we banned HIV positive people from entering the U.S.? [2]
Yes, of course the U.S. has a long history of quarantine. We also have a long history of abusing those powers for racist and political reasons.
The PA Supreme Court, at least, agrees. [3]
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/10/30/3601204...
[2] https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/cure-worse-dise...
[3] https://www.alston.com/en/insights/publications/2020/09/cons...
Like when we put barbed wire up in Chinatown, San Francisco in 1900 after allowing all the white people to leave? [1]
Or when we incarcerated 30,000 women in WWI because they may be "unclean" and held them even after their mandatory STD tests came back negative? [1]
Or what we did to immigrant Russian Jews in 1892? [2]
Did you know that up until 2009 we banned HIV positive people from entering the U.S.? [2]
Yes, of course the U.S. has a long history of quarantine. We also have a long history of abusing those powers for racist and political reasons.
The PA Supreme Court, at least, agrees. [3]
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/10/30/3601204...
[2] https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/cure-worse-dise...
[3] https://www.alston.com/en/insights/publications/2020/09/cons...