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"Involuntary isolation an option if swine flu explodes into major epidemic Many states adopted new legislation to deal with emerging health emergencies in the wake of Sept. 11, says James Hodge, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and executive director of the Centers for Law and the Public’s Health. Under ordinary circumstances, states and municipalities have to get a court order to isolate a person suspected of harboring a dangerous infection or to quarantine someone exposed to a deadly disease. But things get really streamlined once a state declares the situation to be an emergency. Then due process can be overridden, at least temporarily, Hodge explains. In a health emergency, people can be forced into isolation or quarantine without the government getting a court order first."

good thing I'm already in voluntary isolation because everyone (including myself) sucks.