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Conservative leaders push back against the "old-fashioned" idea of quarantine.

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Businesses fight back against the emerging policy of quarantine as epidemics wax and wane in their intensity. One New York businessman writes that quarantines are: "a most unwarrantable tyranny over the merchant."