The law only applied to seamen working aboard any "ship or vessel of the United States arriving from a foreign port into any port of the United States". In other words it only applied to those engaged in foreign commerce. One of the enumerated powers of the US government is "to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, ..." I guess the 5th Congress and President Adams understood the 10th Amendment after all.
It didn't exclude domestic fishermen type seamen, did it. Try again.
Infectious germs and viruses are no respecter of persons and you'd have only domestic sailors spreading STDs to every U.S. citizen at large? Your intention is to decimate U.S. population the way Europeans decimated Indians? Too cute by half. Communicable diseases will always keep the most individualistic conservative's leg chained to necessary socialism, Typhoid Mary.
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