Subj : Re: Detain the Sick
To   : Flavio Bessa
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Tue Jan 05 2021 02:37 pm

FB> I don't understand much about the American Constitution, but is it allowed 
FB> a citizen to deliberately harm other people and go unpunished?

This is about citizens who have contracted covid-19, particularly. But how can
someone prove that they spread the virus deliberately? People don't always 
know that they have it.

Suppose someone test postive for covid:
They get tested, and the test comes back "positive."
Then they get a call from a Contact Tracer.  
The contact tracer tells them "Stay home and quarantine!"
The honest person says "I have to pick up my kid at school!"
The contact tracer reports the honest person to the state.
The honest person goes to jail for "being a threat to the health of others."

No, a citizen can't deliberately harm others & go unpunished, but in this 
example I showed you, the parent is harming their child's health by going to
the school to pick the child up, but they are also harming their child's 
health if they fail to pick them up from school.

I'm afraid that contradictions like that are going to hurt families. 
Judges have very simple minds. But the governor will be viewed as a "hero" by
the media for his "dedication to protecting the health of NYers."

They're already calling him a "hero" for ordering nursing homes to allow 
covid-positive patients to enter their facilities, even if the nursing home
doesn't have a means of isolating the infected. To the media, he's "a hero" 
because he "stood up for the rights of the elderly covid patients," despite 
the fact that his "heroic" decision led to the deaths of thousands of elderly 
NYers.

--- Renegade vY2Ka2
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