criminal-law self-defense homicide
Lethal force to prevent virus outbreak?
<p>Lets say im in the hostpital or a supermarket. and somone just died from somthing unknow, what seems to be a virus or any other transmissible disease. am i in legal right to use letal force to prevent someone from leaving the erea. we propably have all seen that cenario in a movie so i wonder, would i be in my legal rights to stop someone from going outside and spread it?..</p>

<p>No.</p>

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<li>You have no idea whether this person is even likely to be infected by anything whatsoever.</li>
<li>Second, even if you did know they were infected, <em>you</em> are not facing an immediate threat of violence.</li>
<li>Third, even if you knew this person were infected, <em>and</em> they began to approach you, <em>and</em> that was deemed an immediate threat of violence (it wouldn't be), you would have less forceful alternatives available to you.</li>
</ul>

<p>You can't unilaterally decide to implement a quarantine and enforce it with deadly force. Even for those <em>with</em> the power to establish quarantines, their enforcement tools are fines and imprisonment. (<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantineisolation.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CDC: Legal Authorities for Isolation and Quarantine</a>)</p>
