[mywittyname]

Quarantine procedures were in place during Zika and Ebola outbreaks as well. And those procedures were substantially more harsh. Major metro hospitals had quarantine facilities brought in for Ebola. Patients were shoved into a mobile field hospital for 14 days. Not a single protest happened for that.

The takeaway here is that none of this is new. People are mostly just pissed off that the quarantine procedures now apply to them. It was a-okay when other people were shoved into isolation tanks because, "that's what happens when you go to Africa."

[tagoregrtst]

Right, but the virus was contained. A quarantine when you have as much COVID as anyone is petty.

[manquer]

Effectiveness is not metric that changes legality. A lot of government policy is ineffective does not make it illegal or unconstitutional .

[FpUser]

When the rights are infringed upon just for the fuck of it without solid proof that it is to prevent endangering large amount of lives - maybe it is technically legal but I think it is crime.

[manquer]

You can make it illegal and actually a crime. The democratic way to make it one is either make that point democratically elected leaders in a civilized manner or vote against them next election and organize into parties/block to influence policy.

Terrorizing and hold regular people hostage with noise pollution, blockade and disrupt their lives is what revolutionary/terrorist organization would do.

If protestors behave like terrorists and insurgents then sooner or later they will be treated like one.