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Back to the issue of individual rights. Individual rights, basically means no group based rights. That no group has privileges, all individuals have equal rights. But the group of infected does loose certain rights that "we all have". There is an unavoidable and justified temporary loss of certain rights for people infected. But is this an attack on individual rights? No, for the most part, the framework of individual rights does not change. Except for the exception below (last paragraph): One has a right to be left alone (as long as one is not harming anyone). But in this case, the "as long as" is violated by an infected person. So the framework of individual rights still stands. The rule (as a whole) is not eliminated, in fact it is obeyed. The respect for the individual is still there. Meaning "everyone" is not quarantined. Only the potentially or actual harmers are locked down by force. The shift in rights for this group is based on the right to quarantine by a government which is a defensive move (right to retaliate, right for defense and self defense). This right of defense and self defense is also part of the individual rights framework. Furthermore, the right to be left alone includes the right to boycott. To not interact with the infected. Any business or individual has the right to avoid, to have nothing to do with an infected person, as in: forcefully prevent entry into the business. Our (specific and final) rights don't exist without any justifications. Some people lose their right of free movement. It is contingent on the presence of the alien in the person. They temporarily lose the right of movement until the alien is separated from them. All the (general) individual rights are intact and preserved awaiting for this contingency to be removed. The infected are not identified as a group. The are individually identified, and individually put under quarantine. That is again a respect of individual rights. But, there is one element that is an attack on individual rights. The indiscriminate lock down of EVERYONE, infected and noninfected, (in a sense, criminal and innocent).