On Wednesday, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announced that on Thursday, the city will be setting up checkpoints at tunnels and bridges to find travelers from 35 COVID hotspot states; if it’s discovered that they have come from one of those states, they will be told to quarantine. Every sixth or eighth car will be checked.
De Blasio threatened a $10,000 fine if visitors from those states do not self-isolate for 14 days. The 35 states include: Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
“De Blasio failed to explain how police or contact tracers would enforce the quarantine beyond asking them to fill out a form … the form has up until now only been forced on people on planes,” the Daily Mail noted.
“We’ve got 35 states now that have dangerously high infection rates. There’s a lot to be concerned about. What we need to do is do everything that we have learned to do in New York City and do that right, do that consistently, but also we have to focus on people coming in from outside New York City,” de Blasio stated.
“This is serious stuff, and it’s time for everyone to realize it,” the mayor added. “If we’re gonna hold at this level of health and safety in this city and get better, we have to deal with the fact that the quarantine must be applied consistently to anyone who’s travelled. So this checkpoint effort is going to be a new, important piece of that.”
“The Sheriff’s Office in coordination with other law enforcement agencies will undertake quarantine checkpoints at major bridge and tunnel crossings into New York City,” Sheriff Joseph Fucito added. “As Sheriff, I understand the absolute serious nature of this pandemic. … The entire team will strive to ensure that the deployment balances the critical public health and welfare needs of the residents of the city with the legal protections entitled to all people.”
The City of New York website states the rules for “non-essential” and “essential workers”:
The irony.
Taxpaying New Yorkers have moved out in such high numbers that De Blasio will have to lay off 22,000 city workers.
Many other New Yorkers are moving out or planning to move out soon.
BUT tourists come in to spend money, helping the city collect taxes, yet De Blasio would have them under house arrest for 2 weeks.
If people from any of those 35 states were planning on vacationing in NYC, they aren’t now!
And De Blasio expects the entire nation’s taxpayers to bail his stupidity out!
There’s an easy way around this. Just claim to be a left wing terrorist coming to burn down citizens’ private property and destroy federal buildings. They don’t spread the virus and DeBlasio loves them.
Set us check points to make sure everyone wears a face mask Yes DeBlasio is a liberal tyrant its best to stay away and cause him some financial disaster
I didn’t know that setting up checkpoints at a state’s border was constitutional.
Not that I want to go into any state that won’t honor my carry permit, anyway.
It’s funny, in my state and others, I am a trusted citizen, safe among others, friend to Law Enforcement.
But if I set foot across the NY State line, I’ll become a ravening lunatic, so dangerous and deranged that I must be locked up for ten years to protect the citizenry. Must be something in the air.
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