Of course the bill was real. There is no dispute about that. It was intended for quarantine of Ebola carriers, but the sponsor admitted it *could* be construed to quarantine Covid patients,and he withdrew it. The point is, it is *no longer* up for a vote.
If you want to draw attention to this dead bill, that’s fine by me, but be honest about it and say it has been stricken. One would think you’d want to shout it from the rooftops that it’s dead, ding dong the wicked bill is dead.
Is there a lesson to be learned from said bill? Yes, be careful what you rush enact when something like Ebola comes knocking. No one would have minded if a few people exposed to Ebola were forcibly quarantined if they refused to do so voluntarily. Forcible quarantine for Covid? We the People would very much mind. The good news is, even the NY legislature had better sense than to enact such a measure. Perhaps if the bill had specified that it only applied to Ebola it might have been passed ... but, on the other hand, that might set a worrisome precedent.
These are issues very much worth discussing.
Why not post about these bills?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4025760/posts?page=12#12
The dead “concentration camp” bill is still listed there (because it is an old list) but if the other bills are still up for vote, they need attention. I am horrified at them, and if I lived in NY, I’d be all over my state reps protesting them.
Wait a minute here. The reason you are rankled about this post is because there is no mention of it being pulled from committee?
Well, there’s the confusion. I went back to look just to be sure. The OP states several times that it was pulled. Once in giant words from Twitter screenshot.
You take issue with it being referred to as a concentration camp? What should we call it when you concentrate people with certain attributes in one facility?
Ebola is quite different than ‘rona. But you know that, being the paragon of honesty.