Rhode Island sending cops, National Guard to find New Yorkers seeking coronavirus refuge

The New York Post ^ | March 28, 2020 | By Vincent Barone

[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.”

[jimfree]

Call out the dogs.

[polymuser]

Governors getting a taste of dictating.

Reserves practicing civilian house-to-house actions.

While not under martial law.

This will not end well.

[PghBaldy]

For hundreds of years, including when we were English Colonies, until now, there have been quarantines.

[novemberslady]

Soon they’ll wait to see your papers on every road

[Chgogal]

No..

New Yorkers seem to think the rules don’t apply and then put everyone else at risk.

https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/coronavirus/jetblue-bans-man-who-flew-on-plane-knowing-he-had-the-coronavirus

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/passenger-on-new-york-palm-beach-jetblue-flight-tests-positive/ar-BB116Bea

[NativeSon]

Yah, funny that, isn’t it?

How long will it be before some immigrant “advocacy” group, demands that the undocumented darlings be exempt ?

[angcat]

We need this done in Pennsylvania!

[chuckee]

Even if there were no corona crisis, exactly what is the downside of throwing NYC residents out of your state? I can’t think of one.

[cranked]

NY and NYC remind me of rats bailing a sinking ship.
Fear and panic are contagious and spread ... just like cancer does.

[BobL]

I’m sorry, but I LOVE IT. New Yorkers, with all of their ‘wealth’ and Left-Wing ARROGANCE, can stuff it. Let them learn what the masses, who they despise, have to deal with.

[BobL]

“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.”

That should help balance the state politically.

[null and void]

If NYC is the problem, and Cuomo doesn't see a problem with the traveling, why not just drive north or west?

Who in NYC has a car?

Note that the RI National Guard is at an AmtraK station!

[null and void]

For as long as I can remember, everyone driving into what nasty Nancy's nephew Newsom calls "The Nation-State of California" had to stop at a boarder inspection station.

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[mewzilla]

Cuomo was specifically asked about NYC residents bugging out who refused to self-quarantine after arriving at their destinations. He said that they didn’t have to self-quarantine because WuFlu is everywhere.

I don’t blame folks in other states for being pi$$ed.

I also don’t excuse residents who choose to use our gov as an excuse to be thoughtless SOBs.

[Teacher317]

[little jeremiah]

Medflies. “Do you have any oranges etc?”

[exDemMom]

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, I had planned to take a day trip to NYC with my son to see the space shuttle there. I’m glad I didn’t buy Amtrak tickets.

We had also planned to vacation in Myrtle Beach next month. That, too, is no longer a plan. I had been agonizing over whether to take the vacation or not, and the question was settled when the resort called to say they are no longer taking check-ins.

So many things this pandemic has done.

[Sacajaweau]

We’re in Upstate. My granddaughter goes to Brown in RI and is now staying in our Condo in Massachusetts. The idea that New Yorkers will be nabbed.....sounds like the old south. Most New Yorkers have been inside for a couple weeks now.

[Valin]

And They put us At Risk By.............?

I Really hate to be the one to break this to you (actually I don’t hate it...I enjoy it) This is NOT the Black Plague!

“When others do a foolish thing, you should tell them it is a foolish thing. They can still continue to do it, but at least the truth is where it needs to be.”
Dukhat (Babylon 5

[heylady]

People from Guatemala are still welcome with open arms.