lonew0lf wrote:

Neoteric wrote:

Robert Daniels has been locked up indefinitely, perhaps for the rest of his life, since last July. But he has not been charged with a crime. Instead, he suffers from an extensively drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. It is considered virtually untreatable.

County health authorities obtained a court order to lock him up as a danger to the public because he failed to take precautions to avoid infecting others. Specifically, he said he did not heed doctors' instructions to wear a mask in public.

"I'm being treated worse than an inmate," Daniels said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press last month. "I'm all alone. Four walls. Even the door to my room has been locked. I haven't seen my reflection in months."

Civil Rights?

It raises the similar question about HIV and if not wearing a condom is considered a crime.

From what I recall, it IS considered a crime. Willfully infecting others with HIV is "wreckless endangerment" or something like that.

I don't think it's a civil rights thing. He's basically in quarantine.

RE: Man with tuberculosis jailed for not wearing mask - CNN.com