interesting licence plate

The plate (on an SUV) was HOYSTOY, which I assume meant Hoy's Toy. But I couldn't help wonder...maybe it meant something else.

I seem to recall (reaching back to 9th grade Spanish) that hoy means "I am." So maybe the person's name is Stoy. Nah, that couldn't be it. But I liked the hoy = I am approach.

I finally decided that it was "Hoy St Oy," meaning "I am Saint Oy, the Spanish Jewish saint of exasperation."

Man locked up for TB

Man locked up for TB -- why? because it's a nearly untreatable drug-resistant strain, and he refused to take actions to protect the public safety, like wearing a mask in public. The act of incarcerating dangerous-to-the-public patients is not unheard of. The question the article raises is, "is it ethical?"

My thoughts: the man became a danger to society -- that's unfortunate. But he could have reduced that danger and chose not to. That's criminal. We have a long history of people who, when mentally sick to the point of public danger, are locked up for the safety of the public. Why should physical dangers be different? In the present case, the man is being kept without benefit of television, phone, even a mirror, but the article didn't say why, and that seems undue.

A more important question perhaps is, who decides what a public danger is, to the point of locking somebody up without a trial? Mental illness cases lead to this. Public health safety leads to this. More recently, suspicion of terrorism can lead to this. Where should the line be? Who gets to decide?