# What is the status for quarantine laws, criminal and civil, being disobeyed?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 25, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-status-for-quarantine-laws-criminal-and-civil-being-disobeyed/702418 "2014-10-25T03:10:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-status-for-quarantine-laws-criminal-and-civil-being-disobeyed/702418/41 "2014-11-01T03:35:15Z")

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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> In his magnificent book “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression,” Andrew Solomon writes about attempting suicide by seeking anonymous homosexual unprotected sex (this was the 1980s), but then stopped when he realized he only wanted to get AIDS, not transmit it unknowingly as well.

AKA, “[bug chasing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugchasing)”.

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