I don't know that this bothers me. My first knee jerk reaction is to cry foul and look at this with suspicion, but then I catch myself and remember where I spend a lot of time these days....

Particularly with reports recently surfacing of a 100% drug resistant TB strain rearing it's ugly head overseas, I can see and appreciate the need for patient wards with the ability to isolate them entirely from the outside world. I'm going to tamp down my conspiracy minded tendencies just this once and say this is probably a good idea to be ready for a variety of biological issues which may come to threaten the public as we enter a very uncertain future.