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To: little jeremiah

Interesting article, but no mention of pandemic quarantines or isolation.

Precedent for local control goes back quite aways (1918 flu pandemic):

https://blog.history.in.gov/tag/pandemic/

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/history/retroindy/2018/01/31/retroindy-1918-spanish-influenza-swift-and-deadly/1075458001/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/how-cities-flattened-curve-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic-coronavirus/


1,593 posted on 04/28/2020 9:20:10 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Drago

That is not a complete listing of presidential powers during a National Emergency, and I have no doubt at all that Trump and his team working on this will not allow states to keep in lockdown, and know the exact ways and means to stop it.


1,594 posted on 04/28/2020 9:22:45 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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