RFK Jr orders mandatory hantavirus quarantine, experts decry coercion

Kennedy just made a really alarming move -- refusing to let a woman exposed to hantavirus to self-quarantine, which doctors agree is safe. Lots of troubling implications in my latest: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

“Authoritarian and unconstitutional detention for no significant public risk is arbitrary & unjust”, said Gostin, health law professor at Georgetown Univ. law center. “The hypocrisy is unreal. Here they’re immediately issuing a compulsory deprivation of liberty.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

A good summation of RFKJr. No serious public health analysis or advice. Instead health emergencies are used to spin baseless rumors, foment hysteria, and then to lock people up. His instincts are not just anti-science, but also authoritarian. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

RFK Jr is placing himself at the vanguard of Trump's authoritarian push by declaring that he has the ability to involuntarily incarcerate anyone at any time for no valid reason.

The irony. The same crew that complained about "lockdowns" during a pandemic, doing this...👇 ‘It’s not science, it’s coercion’: health experts decry RFK Jr order on hantavirus quarantine www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... cc @gostin.bsky.social

These are the same clods who screamed 'tyranny' for being forced to wear masks and quarantine when epidemiologists - the experts on the matter - said it was necessary. Now we're imprisoning people FOR NO GOOD REASON. This is not about making sense. It's cruelty! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... Make your travel decisions carefully. This jerk can decide to keep you in mandatory quarantine without scientific evidence to support it. Fascism.

Quarantine over for almost all hantavirus ship passengers, crew medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06... #Science #Health

So, the same people who objected to isolation and masks during the very contagious Covid PANDEMIC are now issuing draconian quarantines for the tougher to contract hantavirus? HEAD. SPINNING. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The media has lost their collective minds. She was not prevented ftom self-quarantining. Self-quarantine is only allowed if your state has the capability to home monitor. Floruda, where she lives, does not. They did not disregard medical experts about hantavirus. This was standard regs before RFK.

Cool how we have to listen to health advice from a lying sex creep who threw live snakes into a pool with his kids. A man whose own family says can't be trusted on anything. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘It’s not science, it’s coercion’: health experts decry RFK Jr order on hantavirus quarantine Kennedy overrides CDC order saying an American who came into contact with hantavirus can self-quarantine www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Remember hantavirus? US government is still coercively quarantining a person involuntarily. The “medical freedom” group seems rather hypocritical when in charge. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Will somebody PLEASE quarantine RFK, Jr.? He's infested and infected with a level of stupidity that is a danger to ALL Americans. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Kennedy is imprisoning Americans against their will if they were exposed to hantavirus and their state won't provide in-person checks and ROUND-THE-CLOCK GUARDS as they quarantine. There's no science to justify it and it's unconstitutional. But do tell me again how requiring a mask was an outrage.