If you think society is more important than the individual in an absolute sense
in this case, perhaps you should take a close look at what the DHS
and other "responsible leaders" of society are suggesting we learn from this
incident. Note that instead of solving the actual problem, failure to serve and
protect the citizen as a civilized and responsible nation, they instead herd you
towards yet another way to protect the nation from the citizen, and the
citizen be damned.

By this "reasoning", any man or woman can be taken or lose the freedom to
travel by the word of virtually any official, even in the absence of evidence.
Now they don't even have to be suspected of any crime or test positive
for actual contagion. There goes another piece of your constitution out
the window and you didn't even notice. Not only that, they are trying to
extend this attack on basic human rights into other nations like Canada as
though they did not exist as sovereign nations at all.

The f r e e press has noticed, so who have you been listening to?

There was a time, not long ago, when americans would have detected and
responded appropriately to such an obvious attack on their national character
and reputation without hesitation.

Tell me, which of those faceless and evil corporations does this young lawyer
work for, hmm? That's right, none. Nor for the government. Have you
forgotten who he actually fights for? Who you think he "lies" for? This young
fellow has just become bait to get you to clamouring to give up another of
your precious american liberties for another mere token of security which
actually has more symbolic than real value. And all for the unreasoning hatred
of one of the few types of lawyer able or willing to fight for the rights and
well-being of the ordinary man.

The Bush League are probably laughing themselves silly over this sick little joke
and the young groom still has no idea whether he will survive to see the punchline.

By the way, you do realize that the mask was not necessary when he was not
contagious, don't you? She had absolutely no problem with not wearing a mask
during the wedding, honeymoon and the ride home. If he had not hurried back
before a mask became necessary he'd be stuck thousands of miles away from
family and the facilities of the CDC today.

The government is probably quite relieved, though they'll probably never admit it,
that they no longer have such a publically abandoned citizen waiting to die on
foreign soil in full view of a foreign press they cannot control or intimidate. Far
better to have a convenient scapegoat, another form of hot-button "enemy"
like terrorists or child molesters, to keep you entertained while they continue
to go about the job of replacing democracy with empire. Well, if you keep
letting them get away with it while acting like they direct, not only will you
get what you deserve but few outside the U.S. will sympathize with your fate
as your former democracy becomes another cage like China or Russia.

Are your travel papers in order, citizen?
No? Better stay safely put in Texas then…