Angela Perryman is being held against her will in a National Quarantine Unit in Omaha, Nebraska, after returning from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak. Perryman, who was a passenger on the MV Hondius, says she feels "betrayed" by federal officials who promised she could monitor her own health in Florida. Instead, she was handed a legal order requiring her to stay at the Davis Global Center until the end of the month, marking only the second time in fifty years that the federal government has issued such a mandatory order.

Eighteen American passengers were flown from Tenerife, Spain, to Omaha after the deadly virus surfaced on the vessel. While some local media have described the situation as "Nebraska hospitality," Perryman described the environment as "extremely stressful." The hantavirus, which surfaced on the luxury ship, has forced a rare use of federal police power to enforce a "biological velvet rope," separating those deemed a risk to the interior from the rest of the mobile population.

This mandatory internment is a physical manifestation of the state's new focus on securitized health. While the administration cuts $1 trillion from general medical care, it maintains a robust, militarized capacity to detain citizens in high-tech bunkers. The Davis Global Center represents a future where health is no longer a public service, but a matter of state security and terminal isolation.