Should Weather Quarantine Be Morally Good Or Unjust?

One of the big topics in the news right now is ebola, and making sure that the patients, people returning from certain spots of Africa, and anyone showing symptoms should be quarantined. I will be explaining the view of an individual and how she was dealt with in the matter as well as what I think about the way her situation is being handled. I will also explain my views on weather quarantine is morally good or unjust and how it ties into the things I have learned in this course. Are the governors placing the returning nurses and doctors using Utilitarianism approach or the Kantianism approach? Are they placing people under quarantine because they are worried and don’t really care about the people that have to suffer from the quarantine? These are some of the questions that I will be answering throughout this paper. Ask yourself throughout the paper how you would handle the situation and think about how the lady in the article may feel, despite the

Which in this case would allow nurses and doctors to go home after coming back from Africa and assisting in stopping ebola. They would have to stay at their homes, but they would be receiving compensation for missing work” (Ehrenfreund, Max). As the article goes on, I wanted to point out that even the government was to see something different to happen. “A couple of weeks of paid time off might not sound so bad for some returning from the hot zone, but from a court’s point of view, a quarantine is still a quarantine” (Ehrenfreund, Max). With this info being one of the last things talked about on the article, it looks like that there is going to be more thought from the governors point of view as to where the doctors and nurses will be quarantined, which if they hopefully go through with them going home and staying, like the White House is urging to happen; the doctors and nurses would be able to stay in the comforts of their own