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Quarantine Persuasive Speech

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Quarantine is a state of isolation in which certain individuals, under the suspicion of containing a contagious disease, are placed to secure the disease in one place and ensure the safety of the rest of the surrounding population. The government has the power to enact these quarantines, but it has been a battle of morality whether the government should or should not be allowed to enact quarantine. This act defies basic human rights, defies the will of the people. This act could potentially save thousands of lives. The government should be allowed to ensure the safety of their country by enforcing quarantines whenever the need for them should arise. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) already has the power to put anyone or any place under quarantine. According to Should Government Have the Power to Quarantine, Jeffrey Tucker, “Regulations prescribed under this section may provide for the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably …show more content…

If the CDC is allowed to put any suspected person under quarantine, then who is to stop them from placing all the wrong people in isolation. What if the CDC, under the Trump administration who is seemingly biased in terms of people, apprehend refugees and immigrants under quarantine when they are not supposedly infected? They would be doing more harm than good in that case. The violation of human rights is also a major concern, no doubt. People would be stripped from their homes and away from their families, if they evens show little symptoms of being contaminated. Who is to say that what is happening within quarantine is productive? The medical personnel could be conducting illegal experiments and basically torturing all the sick people in there, with barely any authoritative supervision. ‘Rules don’t guarantee results, and government has no solid reason to be careful about who gets put into the camps and why”

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