90-Second Read: COVID skeptic RFK Jr. is now cool with forced quarantine

The health secretary is forcing an American exposed to Hantavirus on a cruise ship to stay in quarantine against her will at a federal hospital facility in… Right now, at the explicit direction of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Now, a CDC medical review by practicing doctors found that, while Perryman could have contracted the virus despite showing no symptoms, the risk of developing symptoms decreased during the 42-day quarantine period recommended by the World Health Organization. Indeed, the Trump administration has taken an extremely hard line on both Ebola and Hantavirus, lockdowns that go far beyond COVID restrictions and previous outbreaks, and Kennedy is leading the way. In keeping Perryman locked up, Kennedy ignored his own medical experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who said Perryman could quarantine at home.

People quarantining at home are literally under constant surveillance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to ensure they comply with quarantine orders. Health officials later decided that the 24/7 monitoring could be done by a healthcare worker, which doesn't really make this any less terrible. The Biden administration did not demand 24/7 surveillance of people who had COVID. Kennedy, in his order extending Perryman's involuntary confinement, simply decided that she was infected based on, well, vibes, and therefore she had to stay locked up.

But, Kennedy, in his infinite public health wisdom, overruled that. Other patients have been allowed to quarantine at home, but Perryman ostensibly cannot because Florida, where Perryman lives, refused to meet the surveillance requirements demanded by the CDC. Kennedy has stacked HHS with people who cut their teeth on COVID conspiracies, just like he did. Biden's CDC did not put people in solitary confinement, which is how one person described the Hantavirus lockup, saying he became so distraught that he went on a hunger strike and was suicidal.

In 2022, he compared lockdowns in the United States to Nazi Germany, except somehow they were worse? Perryman described her confinement as being locked alone in a room at the medical facility 23 hours per day, where she can only go outside for one hour on the roof of the building. For conservatives, every accusation is a confession, and that's crystal clear here.