I agree with you also. But if murders and rapists get to watch TV or make phone calls (something I do not agree with, but that is a whole other topic), he should be too.

I do not think that house arrest would necessarily work in this (or any) situation (even Martha Stewart violated her house arrest rules). By the time the authorities were aware that he has gone for a walk in the park/playground/mall/whatever, and can locate and contain him, he could have contaminated a whole bunch of people.

His claim of being 26 and not knowing the seriousness of his illness doesn't fly with me either...