But in this case that would likely require them to have evidence that he's a threat to public health. In this case the man is apparently in poor health... but the patient didn't want to be kept in the hospital any longer. The determination of whether his is a threat to public health rests not on if he's sick, but on: is he still contagious? Is he?
To be fair though, some people are terrified, absolutely terrified, of being in hospital, and especially so at the moment. My friend didn't want to attend hospital when he was unwell because of the fear of covid and I thought he died because of this.( turned out in fact that nothing could be done for him anyway so I was wrong). I expect that there have been deaths as a result of reluctance to attend A&E which could have been avoided.
I agree with you in theory but in the US the laws against being a public threat are obviously inadequate or everyone would be wearing masks or in jail. In the early 20th century New York was able to arrest and permanently restrain a long-term typhoid carrier, the notorious Typhoid Mary, who refused to admit her condition and modify her behavior. She was a cook and said she had to cook to survive, but that is not an excuse for spreading typhoid wherever you work. The visitor described was also disturbing the peace, but in the US he wouldn't have gotten that far, once the patient said he wanted to leave and there was a witness that he had been warned, they would have brought him his pants. I know personally of a case in which a diagnosed slightly-controlled schizophrenic with obvious acute appendicitis was brought to a hospital by his mother and had to be permitted to leave because he wanted to because he said the hospital staff were threatening him. Later that day he collapsed and this time since he was unconscious through the surgery he stayed in the hospital.
Ah but everyone is staying home and buying things from Amazon so Jeff Bezos is happy! He apaprently has a personal wealth of US$185.7 billion making him the second richest person in the world. This amount is 2,750,825 times the median U.S. household income
He's back to second richest? .. Elon Musk overtook him for a few days then Jeff secured the top spot again. Who's Top of the Pops now instead? ..
I think it's Bezos.
I get paid next week, do you think he'd lend me a tenner?
According to Forbes real time billionaire tracker (!) https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#1ebcab9b3d78 is indeed still richest with Musk at second. Musk has just gone down by 7.1 billion whereas Bezos has gone up by 1.5 billion, thus allowing them to change places.
Nope. And that's how he got to be so rich. Well, on a bigger scale but that same idea.
From looking at the 2 new cars on their driveway and the amount of stuff that keeps getting delivered to the family 3 doors down from me, I think it's them.
I hope Jeff builds some rocketships, just so Musk can call him a "Space Peado".
Has anyone noticed that all of Blue Origin's rockets look like flying penises?
AND the WHO team is observing a 14 day quarantine period after telling the Chinese they're coming to look for evidence. Good luck finding anything the Chinese don't want you to find.
I dunno. What does a bio-engineered plague look like? What aspects of a virus would be tells that it was genetically sequenced in a lab?
I know it's not the first one, but I'm not sure how many viruses do.
It doesn't need to be genetically sequenced though, that is why it would be hard to prove one way or another. We have already seen how the virus has mutated in humans. A lab can "naturally engineer" a more harmful coronavirus by passing in through a series of animal hosts, say ferrets (very close to mink..). Trying to detect that would be very difficult. That Wuhan lab could have had flocks of fevered futtrits but there would be no trace by the time the WHO team get there.
