Members of the 1207th Rhode Island National Guard wait for disembarking passengers at the Amtrak station in Westerly, R.I. yesterday to inform passengers from New York of the 14-day quarantine restrictions
Posted on 03/28/2020 4:58:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Any New Yorkers in there?
Rhode Island plans to send the National Guard out to knock door-to-door in an attempt to hunt down anyone who has arrived in the tiny state from New York City during the coronavirus pandemic. State police, meanwhile, have begun pulling over cars with New York state plates.
Gov. Gina Raimondo said anyone traveling there from New York will be ordered to undergo a 14-day quarantine and could face fines or even jail time if they’re found to not comply.
“Right now we have a pinpointed risk,” Raimondo said at a news conference Friday. “That risk is called New York City.”
Rhode Island, which had some 162 confirmed cases by late Friday compared to New York State’s total of more than 44,000, joined a host of other municipalities and states trying bar entry to New Yorkers living in the epicenter of the US’ coronavirus outbreak.
The Hamptons, counties north of the city, and governors in Florida, Maryland, Texas and South Carolina have all also ordered New Yorkers to keep out or undergo mandatory two-week quarantines.
Cuomo said he was opposed to such restrictions, at least within the state.
“I don’t like it socially or culturally,” Cuomo said during a radio appearance Friday on WAMC. “I don’t like what it says about us as one state, one family. Also, I don’t believe it’s medically justified.”
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Members of the 1207th Rhode Island National Guard wait for disembarking passengers at the Amtrak station in Westerly, R.I. yesterday to inform passengers from New York of the 14-day quarantine restrictions
Blame Cuomo.
He’s the one who told them they don’t have to self-quarantine for two weeks cuz WuFlu is everywhere.
Your papers please!!!
Set up quarentine tent cities, widely publicize them. Good deterrent.
Syracuse, NY is farther from NYC than Rhode Island is. But I don't think Syracuse has any more of these cases (relatively speaking) than Rhode Island does.
If NYC is the problem, and Cuomo doesn't see a problem with the traveling, why not just drive north or west?
Martial law won’t be declared , but will be instituted on the sly.
I'm going to have my second cup of coffee now; I'll be fine then.
New Yorkers ... the new lepers?
That must be a little bit humiliating, getting treated like you’re radioactive
First it was those evil Chinese.
Then it was those evil Italians.
Then it was those evil New Yorkers.
.....
Then it was your neighbor across the street...
"It's the avocado toast that's drawing them in. Stop making avocado toast!"
And they find no 'sanctuary' in Rhode Island ...
Does anyone else see how we’re being playgued here? The chains of Tyranny are starting to rest uncomfortably around our ankles.
Look, we can blame Cuomo for a lot of stuff but he is not behind this. But he never said that you don’t need to self quarantine if you have been exposed. BTW, I don’t know how they are going to enforce any of this without more drastic measures like road blocks on all incoming roads etc.
Didn’t take long for their inner fascist to appear.
Yes. Myself and a number of other FReepers have been saying it from day one.
Good luck, Nube.
Suddenly strong borders are OK.
This from the same guy who proclaimed that conservatives aren't welcome in his state.
Coronavirus DANG!
Just when I think things can’t get any crazier....Turns Out I’m Wrong.
BTW I read on Fox News (by way of The Post)...by this time next year 1/2 of the population of NY City will be dead.
Let’s be safe here and require all New York Senators and members of the House to be quarantined for about 9 months.
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