Posted on 03/14/2020 9:19:40 PM PDT by bitt
Telling people to remain calm and simultaneously forcing people to remain in their homes would seem to be a contradiction in messaging; potentially only worsening the panic. However, this is one of those, “well, yes it’s unconstitutional except when….” moments, that may have rather profound consequences.
The Democrat mayor of Hoboken New Jersey has announced a mandatory curfew between 10pm and 5am where all residents are not permitted to exit their residence; and all bars must close due to the coronavirus.
I don’t know if this is the first ‘mandatory’ coronavirus curfew, or even how such an effort could feasibly be enforced, but it’s likely not going to be the last:.
New Jersey – 10:45pm ET – Hoboken Mayor Ravinder Bhalla announced a citywide curfew will be in effect starting Monday. The curfew also places major restrictions on bars and restaurants.
The curfew will be in effect from 10 p.m.- 5 a.m.starting on Monday, and until further notice. Residents will be required to stay home, except for emergencies, or if needed at work by their employer.
As of 11 a.m. Sunday, bars that do not serve food will not be permitted to operate at all. All other bars and restaurants are no longer permitted to serve food within the establishment, and can only sell takeout or delivery. (read more)
Exactly, Where the ever living f**k is this coming from ??
The mayor is right on the money. No venturing out at night, no opportunity to procure the fixins for bat stew. Problem solved.
I forgot all about the corned beef this time of year. Looks like I will have to do some panic buying after all.
What are they going to be moving on the streets at night when all the civilians are supposedly inside their houses? That’s a question I would have, if you were going to have mass arrests, or military movements, or anything else having streets clear would give you the opportunity to do that under the cover of Darkness
notice that he lets you all out during the day so that you can go to stores to pay state taxes on stuff-
Thanks for the chuckle! I needed that.
Except for Bars that sell only alcohol those are shut during the day too at least that is how I read it.
They just love forcing their idiotic, useless, totalitarian controls on the peasants.
By next week all of the Democrat run cities, (and half the republican ones) will be locking people in their residences full time.
If you had a 100% curfew, 24/7, for 14-30 days, it would accomplish something against the virus. But that is impractical and will cause riots and require enforcement and national guard etc.
Thing that also bugs me here is that in 2009, with the H1N1 virus, there was no panic. No such closures or bans. 1000 people had to die including 100 children before they declared a public emergency. And even then they did not take these drastic steps. Schools did not close. Bars did not close. No curfews that I recall.
They are literally trying to kill the economy, so that even if we can get a handle on this disease in the next 4-8 weeks, the economic consequences will have been dire. It will be too little too late and take a year or two to recover. You can’t just close down all kinds of business, on top of the already tapering of economic activity because people are staying home more out of fear.. and not have drastic consequences on the other end.
There was no end date on this curfew either unless I missed it.
My feelings exactly. In 2009 they may have closed schools for a day or two for cleaning in conformed cases but not for 2 weeks as a precaution with no confirmed cases or even pending results tests cases in the area.
No way I will stay inside for 2-4 weeks unless sick. Stuck inside for weeks with most of the cleaning supplies hoarded seems like a recipe to actually get sick.
The youngest mayor of Hoboken was 32 years old, his name was Peter J. Cammarano and he served has mayor for 23 days until he guy arrested for corruption during Chris Christie’s Operation Bid Rig where Cammarano accepted a $5,000 bribe in a brown paper bag so a developer could build a new apartment building.
Obviously just martial law... totally ineffective in preventing spread of the virus. Who shops 10pm to 5am? What Mah Jong club meets in the middle of the night? etc.
A peaceful non-obtrusive way to get the sheep to accept sequestration... and the best time for SWAT raids and arrests: everyone home obediently.
I don’t have a good reference for this, but the first part was stated at a medical conference this morning:
Apparently what happened is that when all the colleges and universities suspended classes or went online, the students suddenly didn’t have anything to do and no reason to be up the next morning. They started to all hit the bars. This is just an example of unnecessary, reactionary closures having the exact opposite of their intent (bars have a higher population density than classrooms). They’re having to do curfews to deal with their own unintended consequences.
Stuck inside for weeks with most of the cleaning supplies hoarded seems like a recipe to actually get sick.
Yeah, it’ll create some kind of sickness. Mental health sickness at a minimum.
They are trying to create an atmosphere of panic and paranoia. OK, I’m not saying people shouldn’t take precautions. We all should. But the media is behaving like this is the Spanish flu of 1918. That killed something like 700,000 Americans - 2% of the population - and 30 million people worldwide. At least as of now, this isn’t anything close to the H1N1 of 2009 but we’re reacting like it’s the Spanish flu.
No self-respecting germ or virus would been caught in Hoboken. No need for this politically stupid curfew.
Governors and Mayors have power like Xi in China.
Whether it’s legal or not.
They control all the cops, prosecutors...the entire apparatus of government.
It takes months and months to get your date in a higher court, and even then the office is likely to prevail in an “emergency”.
Besides, if you resist you could be charged with that, and violations that come from that. Or you could just get shot.
So...what say you?
Have we become a nation of lemmings?
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