What the hell are we letting happen to our country?
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California begins forcibly quarantining — separating families — to enforce shutdown.
On Wednesday, the soft voice of Ventura County Health Director Robert Levin confirmed that the forcible quarantines are underway. He announced a “pilot program that will grow into a larger program” and “we will find everyone with COVID-19 and we will isolate every one of them and we will make sure that they stay quarantined and we will check in with them every day. In other words, what this program means is we’re going to do a more complete job, we’re going to do a more meticulous job of making it less and less possible for others in the county to run into someone with COVID-19 infection.”
“[As] we get more contacts, “some of the people are going to have trouble with being isolated, for instance, if they live in a home where there’s only one bathroom, and there are three or four other people living there and those people don’t have COVID infection we’re not going to be able to keep the person in that home. Every person whom we’re isolating, for instance, needs to have, uh, their own bathroom. And so we’ll be moving people like this into other kinds of housing that we have available. They’ll also have other needs perhaps – food, whatever it’s going to be – the county will be there to back them up and to support them.”
As Mr. Levin acknowledges, Ventura County is just the beginning of Governor Newsom’s plan to expand forcible quarantines on the entire state. I read an article by some “public health specialist” yesterday advocating exactly this sort of procedure for the entire country as “the only way to defeat COVID-19”, and I thought, well. that’ll never happen. Not only will it, it’s begun.
Glenn Reynolds:
So, let’s unpack this a bit. First, sheriffs shouldn’t have armored vehicles. Second, sheriffs who have armored vehicles shouldn’t use them to shut down salons for violating a quarantine order. Third, law enforcement officers shouldn’t be grossly obese. Fourth, law enforcement officers who are grossly obese shouldn’t be mincing around like tactical hippos.
Finally: So many libertarians are unhappy with the way things are going, when they should be delighted at how they’re making the powers that be look ridiculous. For all the BS TV shows like NCIS, this is much closer to the true face of law enforcement in America. Rub their noses, and protruding bellies, in it.
UPDATE: According to a comment, this picture, despite the caption, comes from the shutdown of a bar, not a hair salon, and that appears to be correct. My comments above, as adjusted, remain the same. Plus, the sheriff’s response to people protesting his action kind of misses the point:
“I’m getting calls from all over the country threatening to shoot me, I mean it’s just been crazy,” Griffis said told NewsWest9 Wednesday. “All these people that are here from wherever you came from, just go home and get yourself a job.”
I think the jobs are kind of the problem here, Sheriff.
Texas Supreme Court orders salon owner released from prison. This after local judge Eric Moye fined her $7,000 and jailed her for refusing to admit that opening her salon in defiance of his self-proclaimed shutdown order was “selfish”
Moye told owner Shelley Luther that although her decision was “selfish,” she could avoid jail time if she apologized and admitted wrongdoing.
Moye said Luther’s statement should make clear “that you now see the error of your ways, and understand that the society cannot function where one’s own belief in a concept of ‘liberty’ permits you to flaunt your disdain for the rulings of duly elected officials.”
Luther told him to pound sand:
“Judge, I would like to say that I have much respect for this court and laws,” Luther said in response. “I have to disagree with you, sir, when you say that I’m ‘selfish,’ because feeding my kids is not selfish. I have hair stylists that are going hungry because they’d rather feed their kids. So, sir, if you think the law is more important than kids getting fed, then please go ahead with your decision, but I am not going to shut the salon.”
The longer this goes on, the ugly will grow uglier.
UPDATE: Well, there are still some signs of beauty. A Go Fund me site was opened for Shelly Luther and has now shut down, mission more than accomplished, after raising $500,110.00. Cool.
