Epoch Times:
A New York lawmaker has taken down a 6-year-old bill that would authorize the state to detain infected individuals and their contacts deemed a threat to public health during a pandemic, blaming “conspiracy theorists” of spreading misinformation about his proposal.
The bill in question, known as A416, was first introduced by Assemblyman Nick Perry in 2015, nearly a year after the nationwide panic over a potential outbreak of Ebola in the United States. The Brooklyn Democrat said the measure was prompted by an incident in which a nurse refused to be placed in quarantine after returning from West Africa, where she’d helped treat Ebola patients.
Like many other bills, A416 had been reintroduced year after year and died in committee. The latest version of the bill would allow the state governor, by “issuing a single order,” to “order the removal or detention” of any person or group of people deemed to be a suspected case, contact, or carrier of a contagious disease and poses “an imminent and significant threat to the public health in severe morbidity or high mortality.”
“Such person or group of persons shall be detained in a medical facility or other appropriate facility or premises designated by the governor or his or her delegate,” it reads.
The bill, which received little public attention over the past years, became a center of controversy when Perry once again put it up for the 2021-2022 legislative session amid the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic. Opponents of the measure argued that it would allow then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo to build internment camps for New Yorkers who refuse to comply with his public health policies. more here
They’re just tempting fate with ideas like this.
That is exactly what such a bill was intended to do. Arbitrary and capricious.
This bill is a good idea as long as the right people are in charge
Pass the bill and we’ll send all the un-vaxed illegal aliens to lock up, all 3 million of them.
Yesterday’s conspiracy theory is tomorrow’s fact.
All those who truly believe such a bill’s powers would never be grossly abused are guilty of engaging in a conspiracy of the stupid.
Yeah, Hitler first rounded up the Jews because of the tuberculosis threat.
And through Aktion T-4 began euthanizing the mentally ill, which, of course, later extended to other social “dregs.”
No theory there, conspiratorial or otherwise, just historic fact.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Hey, it is working for Australia, why shouldn’t we do it? /sarc
The difference between conspiracy and fact, is down to about two weeks.
And they are conspiracy deniers.
The greatest conspiracy ever in my opinion is the mainstream media.
This is the globalists plan. They are only shelving this bill until they can find another 2572 page bill to hide it where it won’t be found until it’s to late. They want this authority. If we don’t start fighting, you’re going to wake up a slave. If you aren’t already. 🙄