A “pandemic response bill” currently making its way through the Massachusetts state legislature would allow authorities to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorize forceful entry into private dwellings and destruction of citizen property and impose fines on citizens for noncompliance.
If citizens refuse to comply with isolation or quarantine orders in the event of a health emergency, they may be imprisoned for up to 30 days and fined $1,000 per day that the violation continues.
This is on the bill: “An individual who is unable or unwilling to submit to vaccination or treatment shall not be required to submit to such procedures but may be isolated or quarantined.”
It hasn’t been approved by the House, but I imagine it will be inserted in another bill and passed that way.
http://flutracker.rhizalabs.com/
Looking at the maps..
Its very entertaining that IT STARTED in Mexico..
Spread to central USA, Spread to the heavy population areas, SPREAD to other nations..
And by the time we get the serum/shot/whatever IT will be over 1/2 over..
Also look at Mexico. They have almost 1/2 as many as the WHOLE USA. Being sparsely populated in that area and HOPEFULLY a Quarantine setup AFTER it was discovered.. It should NOT have spread. But Data from Mexico is ??????? LACKING.
Ok,
so a RURAL area is where we THINK IT STARTED??
And now its hitting most of the world??
What happened to any type of containment??
Or was it TO BIG/RICH to contain?
Most of those coming BACK from Mexico, in THAT area, COULD have been HELD as a contagious disease..
We could of Stopped Flights to that area for a TIME, and Contained that area for 30 days..FOR little or nothing.. Wouldnt that have SOLVED the problem??
“If citizens refuse to comply with isolation or quarantine orders in the event of a health emergency, they may be imprisoned for up to 30 days and fined $1,000 per day that the violation continues.”
You at least get a choice. You can stay at your home or Prison.
Here’s the link http://thebirdflupandemic.com/archives/1000-per-day-fine-and-30-days-in-jail-for-refusing-the-swine-flu-vaccine-in-massachusetts
… and the YouTube video http://youtube.com/watch?v=2_oD55WvDmM
What if the goobermint decided to shut-down the internet to prevent the spread of computer viruses? It’s in our best interest? Right?
Good..better for humanity.
Just curious. What are the gun laws in Massachusetts? Have they disarmed the citizens who might not take kindly to having their homes broken into by warrantless thugs?
So, maybe being gay, republican, or redneck could now be a health issue worthy of suspension of rights?
and, BTW, is just a frickin’ FLU! The panic is insane.
#20 I understand your need to confound picking with hitting (it helps you avoid reality). But don’t worry, I understand that people out of touch with reality need those thing to keep whatever sanity they have left.
HEY GUILHERME===very bad form to post without a link. Pure crap in fact. You must have been looking at something when you got the idea to post? At least tell us you can’t provide the link because it was from Portuguese TV or your neighbor from over the fence.
Then we will be able to comment you shouldn’t post unless you have a link.
No standards at all for our editors. You should be vaccinated!
dear BOBO,
Look at the first line and the COLOR RED..its linked.
Unless you are talking about another post..
Since you idiots havnt figured something out…
1. 2 months ago an infection was discovered.
2. infection rate SEEMS to be less then we are told, or the affects ARNT as bad as they THINK.
75000 incidents in 2 months?? Even with Average spread with airlines and Schools, it should be 10 times this.
3. you really want to TRY and out guess a NEW virulent strain??
4. as I asy with CURRENT games…IM NOT A BETA TESTER..
#29, ECA said:
“dear BOBO,
Look at the first line and the COLOR RED..its linked.
Unless you are talking about another post..”
Actually, it had not been linked when Bobbo wrote his comment.
It’s also bad form not to add an edit tag to explain the error, but as the original error was fixed, I’ll let it slide. Now, off to RTFA.
The prevision is already in place, it’s called Marshal Law. The rights of an individual can be suspended in an event of an emergency.
This is rich: “In a study conducted at the University of Hong Kong, the British Medical Journal reported that less than half of 8,500 doctors and nurses in public hospitals will accept vaccination against the swine flu – even following increases in the World Health Organization’s pandemic alert level.” /// When the docs won’t take the vaccine, any doubt about what they are telling their patients?
Thanks Guilherme. Don’t you hate it when you click and think you did it?
Since this is in Massachusetts, I’m sure the legislature must be asking themselves WWTD (what would Ted do). Which is probably better than asking themselves WWBFD.
Sure, this would be a good thing if we had angels running the country, but with the criminals we currently have this power could be TOO EASILY ABUSED!
But I don’t expect a publicly schooled public to even have the slightest clue as to why power like this wasn’t given to the government in the original constitution.
A good rule of thumb for you liberal statists is to ask what you would think of an idea for increased government power if George Bush, Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan and Pat Robertson demanded it.
Might allow you to see clearly for an instant.
Look, its Massachusetts. They are very progressive there. You probably can’t imagine how proud they are to be goose-stepping into the future just a bit ahead of the rest of us.
Sorry folks, States ALREADY have most of these options available to them through their Public Health Laws (at least in California). Basically, the local County Health Officer has the right to your body whether you are using it or not. This has been implemented numerous times for non-compliant TB cases over the years… including lock-up to take their meds or forced hospital care.
Maybe Massachusetts is behind the times..
(by the way..I’m a retired Public Health Lab Director and we’ve used the feature 2 times in the 20 years I was working)
#39 BFreeman said
“Basically, the local County Health Officer has the right to your body whether you are using it or not.”….
But not women’s bodies. We’ve already settled that.