I can't believe all this stuff is hitting the fan, and no one is (or can) doing anything about it. What the heck is going on in the US? This, to me feels alot like how Hitler started to take control.... Am I wrong?

^No. You're not wrong. It's scary.

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I don't think this is troubling. If a disease is running rampant and we have a vaccination, then we must secure ourselves and our fellow man. We cannot allow people to run around spreading the disease all willy-nilly even if they want to. An epidemic is as serious as war time - martial law must be enacted if it comes to it. This is not a permanent thing either, it will be until the epidemic is contained and squashed.

So, yeah, I'm siding with the state on this.

so gwiz665 wants to put a gun to a persons head in order to save them from the flu? that makes all kinds of sense. Why don't you take my kids away too? you can take care of them right? don't hide behind the transparency of the 'state'.

It's not that different from the laws that are already in place, actually.

Here's a summary of each state's quarantine laws from 5 years ago:
http://healthyamericans.org/reports/bioterror04/Quarantine.pdf

and here's the bill in question:
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/186/st02/st02028.htm

I just skimmed it as I'm about to go to sleep. I don't care for the warrantless arrest part, but nothing else jumped out at me.

Mountains out of molehills is my impression for the moment.