Right now, the German state of Schleswig Holstein (the state to the extreme north, bordering Denmark)...is preparing what was a boy's detention center....to be a forced-into-quarantine center.
The deal? I'll reference part of this situation back to a NDR story (public TV for the region).
As you have Covid-19 symptoms and go for the test....your regional health authority is going to pass you a note after you get the positive result. It basically says you will isolate yourself in your house/apartment, period (no exceptions).
No one really says the results here, but generally....some folks have said 'no'....just refusing to self-quarantine. My humble guess? Probably out of every hundred cases....one individual is violating the quarantine situation. We aren't talking about walking the dog type excuses.....this goes up to the level of going grocery-shopping or still mingling on the street with some friend in conversation (while probably feeling a mild case of Covid-19).
In a lot of German states, there's disbelief that it reaches the level that you have to actually force people into a controlled atmosphere.
So here in this state...they finally said 'enough' and took open space at the enclosed facility (fencing to control things) to convert into a lock-down situation.
Who runs it? The retired-guards that used to run the boy's detention center. They run the control, and the pick-up vehicle.
Expecting a lot of people? Well....no. In this initial phase....it's just three rooms that they have set up for this situation. Yes, the rooms are basically jail-house-comfort, with jail-type doors.
On the stupid-level? You might be able to make a comment or two about the state going to this level of control....but then you gaze over at the violation crowd, and how they only needed to isolate themselves for fourteen days. Various grocery operations now have ordering capability, and delivery to your front-door. There should be no need for you to skip isolation and pretend that your infection situation is marginalized.
The odds that other states will follow this example? Probably. They all have the same issue.
People perceiving this as a serious breech of freedom? You might have a slight case to utter that, but if some guy had Yellow Fever or Dengue Fever....you probably wouldn't want to find him sitting at the local pub and sipping beer with bar-buddies. You'd try to encourage him in a nice way to go isolate himself for a period of time and just get over the health issue. If he didn't seem willing to cooperate? Then you'd probably agree that forced-quarantine is about the only path left.
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I credited the source and posted this item over on FreeRepublic that had a snip about German quarantine camps.
Post 17 - https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3928312/posts?page=1
If you object, I will get it pullrd.
It just fit right in. Some of those guys were predicting "loading the boxcars" with anti-Covids and I thought it was an overreach - then your post showed up here.
I don't mind, but I doubt if anyone really wants to believe this prospective.
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