This page collects supporting case material on travel and isolation restrictions. It is not part of the central Framework argument. The spine keeps one short sourced example (New York nursing-home admissions); these further cases illustrate the same distinction between aggregate public aims and particular lives.
Travel and isolation cases
Restrictions on citizens' movement appeared across several democracies. Canada introduced a vaccination requirement for departing air passengers and specified rail travellers in 2021, suspended for domestic and outbound travel in June 2022.
From March 2020, Australia restricted citizens and permanent residents from leaving the country unless exempt. In May 2021, it also temporarily barred returns from India, including by its own citizens, with criminal penalties for breaches.
In New Zealand, returning citizens depended on access to scarce places in managed isolation. The High Court later found that aspects of the allocation system unjustifiably limited citizens' right to enter their country during the period it examined in late 2021: the system failed to provide adequately for people facing unreasonable delays whose circumstances warranted priority.
Back to the argument
See Flourishing beyond self-preservation in the Framework essay, including the New York nursing-home example and the commitments that follow from it.