I really don't like the idea of sequestering sick people, essentially treating them as if they are no longer human. I'm not just talking about leprosy, there were other medical diagnosis just made on a weird thing on the skin. It says if your boil is only skin deep then you are locked away for seven days until it is reexamined. If it hasn't spread you're declared "clean." If not, well then I guess you're thrown away with the leprous people!
So not compassionate, insensitive, i guess that was the times, so scared of these medical issues that they knew very little about. Probably similar to the way people treated those who were HIV+ or had AIDs, before we knew that it could only be spread through blood and certain body fluids.
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