BREAKING: Checkpoints will be set up at New York City's tunnels and bridges to trace travelers from 35 COVID hotspot states and enforce 14-day quarantine - and anyone who flouts it risks a $10,000 fine

UK Daily Mail ^ | August 5, 2020 | Jennifer Smith

[C19fan]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is implementing checkpoints to stop people entering the city from any of the 35 states that are on Cuomo's mandatory quarantine list and take down their details to enforce it.

Anyone who is caught flouting the rules faces a $10,000 fine.

The rule goes into effect starting Thursday August 6.

[xrmusn]

How do they get food and produce delivered to the city?
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You mean when ‘they’ say Hold on, let me check the back that it is just a ruse?

Stuff isn’t grown and produced in the back?

Good Idea get rid of them trucks!!

I ‘pray’ that the /s isn’t really necessary...

[Buckeye McFrog]

Doesn’t think he’s driven enough nails into the coffin of his local economy, eh?

[xrmusn]

I’m picking up 20 more chicks at the post office today. Layers.
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I trust that you are referring to fowl that produces eggs?

NOT

the other kind of laying chicks?

[cuban leaf]

NOT

the other kind of laying chicks?

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No, not the other kind. No need. I’m extremely happily married. :)

[LizardQueen]

My elderly mother is on Long Island so I have no choice but to drive through parts of NYC either.

[LottieDah]

There goes seeing my daughters. One of them lives in MA and the other lives in Florida. I wonder when and if I will get to see them again.

[Zhang Fei]

[A few months ago Texas required people traveling from New York to quarantine and placed checkpoints at the Louisiana border.]

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Texas is not even enforcing masks, but it was enforcing a quarantine? Sounds like the Texas thing was window dressing. Whereas the New York quarantine is like a $10,000 per person speed trap to raise money to fund its out-of-control government spending.

[Alberta's Child]

So if I drive from Florida to NYC and I’m stopped at a checkpoint at the Lincoln Tunnel, how the hell do the police know: (1) where I’ve been, and (2) how long I stayed there?

“Yes, officer — I have a Florida license plate on my car. I drove up from Florida in February and I’ve been living under a bridge in New Jersey ever since then.”

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

“Escape from NY” is becoming a documentary.

5.56mm

[Meatspace]

Texas’ state police agency is “increasing its presence” on the ground near entry points from Louisiana to enforce a 10-day-old, coronavirus quarantine order for road travelers arriving from the Bayou State.

Late Wednesday, the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed it’s ramping up enforcement of Gov. Greg Abbott’s edict, though it declined to say how many checkpoints there are and where.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/04/09/5-things-to-know-about-texas-coronavirus-quarantine-edict-on-louisiana-motorists/%3foutputType=amp

[ml/nj]

Last I knew, NJ was not on NY’s list of 35.

Checkpoints slow down everyone on a road in which they are placed. And there's really no way to know whether my Jersey plates mean I'm from NJ rather than someone who just picked up a rental at Newark Airport.

ML/NJ

[Zhang Fei]

[Texas’ state police agency is “increasing its presence” on the ground near entry points from Louisiana to enforce a 10-day-old, coronavirus quarantine order for road travelers arriving from the Bayou State.

Late Wednesday, the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed it’s ramping up enforcement of Gov. Greg Abbott’s edict, though it declined to say how many checkpoints there are and where.]

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Enforcement without penalties is like religion without hell - there’s no incentive to comply with its strictures.

[woodbutcher1963]

Have you seen pictures/video of NYC during the day lately?
There is NO rush hour traffic.

My office has Fox Business Channel on during the day.
They have a camera mounted on their building on the corner or 42nd street and 6th avenue pointed north toward Central Park. There is nobody there. Sometimes they show the live shot and there are a couple vehicles on each block.

They also have a camera in Times Square. When the show that during the day there are just a few vehicles and a few pedestrians.

Consider just the tourist dollars that the big cities are losing. Every year people go to NYC. They go to a Yankees game. A broadway show. Walk through Times Square. Go to the Statue of Liberty. Ground Zero. take the Staten Island Ferry. None of that is happening. Not only are the hotels, restaurants losing money. Think of the cab drivers. Hot dog cart salesman. Then consider the reduction in sales tax revenue for the city and state.

[Flick Lives]

I’m picking up 20 more chicks at the post office today. Layers.

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Hold on a sec. Am I missing out on some new program?

[Meatspace]

“ Enforcement without penalties is like religion without hell - there’s no incentive to comply with its strictures.”

Except for this piece of information on the link about enforcement in Texas.

“Violators could face a fine of up to $1,000, up to 180 days in jail or both“

[shanover]

I think freedom of movement is pretty well established under the Constitution. I don’t think this will stand.

LMAO! What is this Constitution you speak of. It only takes a liberal judge to become the Constitution and the scum liberal politicians to ignore it altogether.I never see the GOP defend the Constitution anymore.

[Londo Molari]

“Haha...going to enforce this with the police that have left, de Blastio?”

No, he will probably use his Brownshirt, oh, I mean BLM and Antifa do it for him.

[Gritty]

Avoid New York at all costs.

Period.

Full Stop.

[dljordan]

“Anyone who is caught flouting the rules faces a $10,000 fine. “

What’s the law backing this up or is it just highway robbery?

[FreedomNotSafety]

We thought freedom of religion was well established.