Update 11-01-sovereign-contagion-and-biohazard-law.md

11-contagions-and-biohazards/11-01-sovereign-contagion-and-biohazard-law.md

@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@
 # Wellspring: Sovereign Contagion and Biohazard law (`SovCBio`):
 
+## Definition of the term "Contagion":
+
+In the `WS` constitution, the term "contagious" with reference to disease/infection is meant to denote those diseases/infections which:
+  - Can be communicated to other individuals beyond the control of the infected/diseased individual.
+
+A disease/infection may be considered to be contagious by this constitution under certain circumstances while being non-contagious under other circumstances. For example, the use of a drug or technological tool may cause an otherwise contagious disease to become manageable and non-contagious.
+
 ## Justification: why is `SovCBio` law needed?
 
 Private property secures conscious agents against interference and ensures that they can exercise their liberties (capabilities) without fearing violence, duress and fraud from other conscious agents because conscious agents can be rationally deterred from volitionally infringing on liberty through the use of frameworks of incentives and disincentives since (most) conscious entities respond to such frameworks out of rational self interest.
 
 However, nature sets herself up as a universal antagonist that afflicts conscious life and interferes with their liberty relentlessly - and nature, being (to our knowledge) unconscious, cannot be subjected to incentive framworks since it cannot rationally grasp its own self interest. With no uncertainty though, nature is a clear, persistent, and unrepentant offender against life and property.
 
-> [Apologia]: Even if nature was conscious, ipso facto it would have proven that it has knowingly antagonized humans this whole time and that it is not amenable to reason, so the the argument still stands.
+> [Apologia]: Even if nature was conscious, ipso facto it would have proven that it has knowingly antagonized humans throughout the entirety of history and that it is not amenable to reason, so the the argument still stands.
 
 When nature embodies its mischief in the form of contagions (disease, pestilence) and biohazards, the contagions themselves do not obey our laws or respond to rational disincentives either. Therefore, a perfectly well meaning, rational conscious entity who observes the principles of non-interference may become a vector of infection since the contagions which have hijacked him, do not observe those principles and cannot be reasoned with. Then, being infected with a contagion, that conagent can now infect other conagents.
 
@@ -20,19 +27,19 @@ The `SovCBio` law represents a recognition of this fact (as stated in the "Defin
 
 ## Scope, purpose and limitations:
 
-The `SovCBio` law is potentially an area ofpolicy where politicians can opportunistically grant themselves new powers based on hazy reasoning. For that reason, we want to define clear, limiting principles around its purpose and scope. 
+The `SovCBio` law is potentially an area of policy where politicians can opportunistically grant themselves new powers based on hazy reasoning. For that reason, we want to define clear, limiting principles around its purpose and scope. `SovCBIO` is not intended to form a grey area of reasoning to enable the expansion of government power. In fact, as humankind invents new technologies that enable contagions and biohazards to be controlled more readily, the scope and powers of this branch of the government should be continually narrowed and diminished.
 
-`SovCBio` legislation shall concern itself solely with the following: 
-- The extra, positive injunctions of due diligence laid upon contagious conagents for the duration of their infectiousness -- the neglect of which may be made to constitute negligence at common law. Such injunctions shall fall into the following two categories:
+`SovCBio` legislation shall concern itself **solely** with the following and with nothing else: 
+- The extra, positive injunctions of due diligence laid upon contagious conagents during such time that they're contagious -- the neglect of which may be made to constitute negligence at common law. Such injunctions shall consist of mandatory requirements to take such precautions as are necessary to suppress their contagiousness or adequately isolate themselves; and shall fall into the following two categories:
   - Injunctions against knowing carriers of a contagion.
   - Injunctions against the general population for due diligence in the face of a contagion which is contagious before it triggers symptoms/clinical features and which therefore can be spread by an unknowing carrier.
-- General and per-disease legal standards for what combinations of symptoms and/or clinical features constitute presumed prima facie evidence of knowledge upon the contagious conagent about its infectious state, in order to mediate intent at common law, when a conagent is accused of infecting another conagent.
+- General and per-disease legal standards for what combinations of symptoms and/or clinical features constitute presumed prima facie evidence of knowledge upon the contagious conagent about its contagious state, in order to mediate reasoning about intent and neglect at common law, when a conagent is accused of infecting another conagent.
 - The broader, extra labour required to proactively counter-act nature's mischievous intrusions into human life and keep contagions and biohazards at bay within populated areas.
 - The broader, extra labour required to control the communication of contagions and biohazards when they do arise within populated areas.
 
 `SovCBio` law is not to be used for any other purpose whatsoever. An ***inexhaustive*** list of goals that `SovCBio` law is adamantly ***not*** intended to pursue is:
 
-- Increased access to healthcare labour and services for any class or group through government action/intervention.
+- Redistributive programs for healthcare labour and services for any class or group through government action/intervention.
 - Mandatory medication or vaccination of indepagents. Under no circumstances shall government have the authority or power to forcefully medicate any indepagent. Animals and other depagents may be forcibly medicated/vaccinated, etc, however.
 - Government-contrived eugenics/cosmetics plans and schemes.
   - Private citizens however, have the right to pursue any cosmetic modification to their own body and property as long as such modifications do not pass along to offspring.