Posted on 05/07/2020 12:44:17 AM PDT by Libloather
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell's announcement this week that businesses reopening when coronavirus restrictions are eased May 16 will be required to keep track of their customers has prompted questions from businesses and customers alike.
How will the new protocol be enforced? How will customers be logged? And most important: Will the businesses and their customers play ball?
Cantrell said Tuesday the goal is for companies to help "box in" coronavirus by providing data to health officials, but she offered few details about the plan. And there is little evidence of a similar mandate in the U.S. Efforts closest to what New Orleans has adopted have already sparked concerns about residents' privacy.
While some firms and the region's economic development agency, GNO Inc., praised the move this week, others said it would be tough sell for their clients and is just the latest cumbersome change they have had to make at the government's demand.
"My friends and my clients have been texting and calling me, saying that they don't want to be tracked in where they go," said Vincent Milligan, an Uptown cosmetologist. He’s considering a career change, he said, "because I’m certainly not going to make any money with the restrictions they are putting on us now."
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
That’s not how the Secretary of State’s Office sees it. “We say, ‘Remember to bring your ID. But if you don’t have an ID, you can still vote,’” said Meg Casper, a spokeswoman for the agency.
Also, the poll commissioners’ handbook distributed by the Secretary of State’s Office says on page 25, in red capital letters, “DO NOT TURN AWAY A VOTER FOR LACK OF PHOTO ID.”
https://www.nola.com/news/politics/elections/article_e0480e93-8bc5-51c3-bd53-0561749ade4e.html
Homer Simpson will be heavily about town?
Guest lists were easy to implement in the ‘70s and before, and customers were happy to go along. After a couple of generations of increased fatherlessness, illegitimacy and drug abuse, though,...
*Contact tracing* my foot.
Papers please, pretty soon turns into, “you will show us your papers”.
I'm guessing Rusty Shackleford will be seen around town a lot as well....
(for those that never watched "King of the Hill", the character Dale Gribble was an anti-government conspiracy theorist. It became a running gag that if asked his identity or if he was required to fill out any official document, he would always say "Rusty Shackleford")
Of all the civil rights violations that have occurred at the hands of government in the past few months, isn’t it amazing that there has been not a word from the ACLU?
At an old job I had, there was some occasions to call competitors to gather information. All public stuff but it had to be sent out.
I developed a standard alias and story that I would use.
Perhaps we should all concoct a standard legend. I predict some enterprising folks about town will also start making fake ID’s.
Insanity.
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