NY Assembly passes A416 “forcible quarantine” bill

NYSenate.gov ^ | NY Assembly

[ctdonath2]

Relates to the removal of cases, contacts and carriers of communicable diseases who are potentially dangerous to the public health

[ctdonath2]

Governor can declare any person or group a medical threat, and have them forcibly quarantined. Bureaucratic word salad allows means to seek release within 3-60 days.

Bill is 4 pages, worth reading.

[gasport]

Quarantine Cornuto (D-NY), behind bars.

[mewzilla]

From your link...

...upon determining by clear and convincing evidence that the health of others is or may be endangered by a case, contact or carrier, or suspected case, contact or carrier of a contagious disease that, in the opinion of the governor...

My Revolutionary War era ancestors are spinning.

[ctdonath2]

The Empire State indeed.

[mewzilla]

Hey, there’s a 60 day limit on the detentions!

Everyone feel better now?

🤬

[pepsionice]

What if the governor is the infected party...can he waiver himself out?

[mewzilla]

Cuomo and our legislature make George III and his Parliament look like pikers.

[T.B. Yoits]

Yet Governor ‘Nursing Home Killer’ (NHK) Cuomo refused to quarantine despite his own order to do so after traveling to Georgia for a funeral.

[mewzilla]

And is Sheldon Silver really back in prison...

[mewzilla]

And here’s a question: What big biz will ever site in NYS again knowing that its workforce can be locked up for 2 months on the whim of Albany...

[Bratch]

[ctdonath2]

I can easily see it: GA plates + no proof of immunization = quarantined for 60 days as paperwork gets confused, delayed, & lost. Then the released is handed a bill. “You didn’t see the notice? It was posted at the welcome center on the cork board in the back.”

[mewzilla]

Welcome signage to NYS ought to come with this warning: Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

[pierrem15]

Used to be the rule when my parents met in NY: if you had TB, you got sent to a sanitorium whether you liked it or not.

Will AIDS be on the list? hahaha

[a fool in paradise]

When Obama was president the ACLU won a case in which a woman who had been exposed to ebola refused to quarantine.

[DugwayDuke]

mewzilla wrote: “My Revolutionary War era ancestors are spinning.”

Your ancestors would have been familiar with quarantines which happened from time to time throughout history.

“Lessons from the History of Quarantine, from Plague to Influenza A”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3559034/

[mewzilla]

NYC doesn’t lock up TB patients for 2 months.

[a fool in paradise]

Some states don’t even go after people who knowingly spread that one let alone refused to disclose it to their sex partners

[mewzilla]

I’m very familiar with the history.

Have you read the bill?