BREAKING: Checkpoints will be set up at New York City's tunnels and bridges to trace travelers from 35 COVID hotspot states and enforce 14-day quarantine - and anyone who flouts it risks a $10,000 fine

UK Daily Mail ^ | August 5, 2020 | Jennifer Smith

[C19fan]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is implementing checkpoints to stop people entering the city from any of the 35 states that are on Cuomo's mandatory quarantine list and take down their details to enforce it.

Anyone who is caught flouting the rules faces a $10,000 fine.

The rule goes into effect starting Thursday August 6.

[C19fan]

Imagine the traffic trying to cross one of the crossings from NJ into NYC.

[C19fan]

So all the NYers who moved to FL to escape NY taxes cannot make it back to their NYC apartments/co-ops/condos.

[KC_Lion]

If you live in a Big City and haven't moved to, at the minimum the suburbs, this is one of the last warnings.

YOU NEED TO GET OUT!!

[tennmountainman]

Just don’t go to NY.
Travel to a friendlier state.

[Hieronymus]

Where is the commerce clause when you need it?

While I think that COVID has the potential to undo the EU, if it has the potential to restore State Sovereignty to a higher level than existed immediately preceding Lincoln, I will be very (pleasantly) surprised.

[madison10]

Haha...going to enforce this with the police that have left, de Blastio?

[SkyDancer]

Who would ever want to go to NYC?

[Steely Tom]

Imagine if a Republican mayor or governor did this.

“Making criminals out of sick people.”

Wait a minute. Just dredge up all the slogans used against Republicans back during the AIDS crisis. There were dozens of them. Wheres ActUP? Where’s the Gay Men’s Health Crisis?

It was all politics, boys and girls. The whole thing.

[Leaning Right]

[Meatspace]

A few months ago Texas required people traveling from New York to quarantine and placed checkpoints at the Louisiana border.

[ClearCase_guy]

I think freedom of movement is pretty well established under the Constitution. I don’t think this will stand.

[Steely Tom]

Haha...going to enforce this with the police that have left, de Blastio?

How many officers does he now have guarding the Black Lives Matter "mural" in front of Trump Tower?

[tsowellfan]

I think I’ll wait until after the elections before I publicly share my views on this issue. Maybe it will cut down on voter fraud for the general election.

Other than that, I think it’s illegal.

[alternatives?]

How do they get food and produce delivered to the city?

[Mase]

Good thing traffic in and out of the city already flows unobstructed.

[cuban leaf]

California had road blocks during the Great Depression to keep Okies and Arkies out.

I think, as phase two - total economic collapse - kicks in, we’ll see a lot more of this. I’m picking up 20 more chicks at the post office today. Layers.

[ealgeone]

Ok...those states should reciprocate in kind.

[FlyingEagle]

NYC is toast. No constitutional freedoms. No rule of law. Adios.

[PGR88]

Progressives are tripling and quadrupling down on destroying NY City, its finances and its social fabric.

[1Old Pro]

Yep, this will curtail the traffic jams...