
Breaking quarantine, social-distancing or mask-wearing laws are crimes in a class on their own.
They are so different from other crimes. The criminal act itself – just travelling around the place – in other times would be unpunishable normal conduct.
But the consequences of the crime are profoundly consequential – death of innocent people, widespread suffering and significant economic damage which itself can inflict death and ill-health.
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