'Every One of Them': California
Begins Forcibly Quarantining People –
Separating Families – Over COVID-19
PJ Media,
by
Victoria Taft
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
5/7/2020 4:39:02 AM
As I reported at PJMedia, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday he was raising up an “army” of contact tracers – as many as 20,000 people – to track down everyone with COVID-19 and quarantine them.(Snip)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
Reply 1 - Posted by:
KatieJo 5/7/2020 5:06:29 AM (No. 403438)
This is terrifying.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
CecilStrange 5/7/2020 5:20:22 AM (No. 403439)
They should go with the traditional brown uniform with a stylized VP on the lapels (Virus Patrol).
17 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rather Read 5/7/2020 5:24:38 AM (No. 403442)
This is truly scary. Imagine what would happen if they tried this with people who have AIDS? I vaguely remember some progs saying this was what conservatives wanted to do.
26 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 5/7/2020 5:26:37 AM (No. 403443)
My God, when will this stop. President Trump, you started this entire thing with your two quacks now you need to end this. How far will these crazy democrat governors go?????? Everyone in this country is at the breaking point. The rubber band is about to snap.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/7/2020 5:36:32 AM (No. 403444)
Once it was said that what started in California moved across the other states. Let's hope that is no longer true.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chumley 5/7/2020 5:58:23 AM (No. 403454)
No more games. If the German people had confronted the Nazis with deadly force before they came to power, they might not have come to power.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
worried 5/7/2020 6:29:29 AM (No. 403469)
Are they going to make people wear a star on their arms - to identify them? Or better yet, why not put them in a separate "settlement", to concentrate them in one area? We could call it some sort of camp. Maybe a Congregation Camp.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/7/2020 6:38:53 AM (No. 403472)
I think Pretty Boy will have a local civil war on his hands before it's all over.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Truth Czar 5/7/2020 7:02:24 AM (No. 403488)
Will Newsom resurrect the World War II internment camps? Will those testing positives receive numbered tattoos on their forearms?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Foont 5/7/2020 7:04:22 AM (No. 403490)
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
While this certainly is drastic isn't this also the way a QUARANTINE is supposed to work? Isn't a quarantine where the people who have contracted a disease are set apart from those who have not until they either die or recover and then are released? Isn't that the whole idea of a quarantine?
I read the article and it doesn't say that healthy people who do not test positive for this virus are being quarantined. Only those who test positive will be quarantined. Isn't this what we want? Instead for the past couple of months we have been locking down everyone, sick or not. That is not a quarantine as it can, and has, confined the ill with the healthy and quite likely done more to spread the disease than contain it. This has resulted in a reaction, quite understandable at this point, that such an extreme response is unwarranted and infringes on basic rights. But this proposal sounds like they are moving to correct this, not make it worse.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Daisymay 5/7/2020 7:21:29 AM (No. 403505)
This whole thing has gone far enough! Tracking down people, like they're a criminal, and forcing them to stay in their homes. Is that what this country has come to? And, I would say there is going to be a mass exodus from CA if the Gov starts to implement this plan. Who would want to live there?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 5/7/2020 7:24:04 AM (No. 403506)
I suspect people will remember this Commie crap come November...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 5/7/2020 7:34:56 AM (No. 403517)
Wait! Separating families? I thought the Rats were opposed to that. Or does that outrage only apply when it's done to illegal aliens?
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Wasn't the T4 Program considered to be a pilot program for the Final Solution? There seems to be quite a few parallels? It just made me think of it.
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Perhaps COVID=19 tattoos are in order and maybe a number at the end to identify where you came from. that sounds about right oh and add the date you were caught. For people who are so fond of calling Trump a NAZI they sure do fit the role.
And they said it could never happen here.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/7/2020 8:07:15 AM (No. 403563)
Covid-19 patients are now our modern-day lepers of Bible times.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
PostAway 5/7/2020 8:08:33 AM (No. 403567)
#10, good point. But in 2017 the California legislature made knowingly donating HIV tainted blood or deliberately exposing another person to HIV with malign intent a misdemeanor, down from a felony. Illegal aliens may enter California through the Mexican border carrying TB or other deadly diseases or backpacks filled with fentanyl and seek asylum forever without ever being tested or checked. As a conservative I am wary of those who wield governmental power using COVID-19 as an excuse to become invasive and dictatorial especially when their actions are inconsistent and favor one group over another. Where you see an honest attempt to help the public avoid illness others see a hype-filledconfusing, confounding and haphazard response to a novel virus. Concurrently, government officials have ratcheted up power and now are killing a thriving economy. If China orchestrated this whole thing on purpose they couldn’t have done a better job and it is perhaps significant that the PRC is active and very invested in California.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rinktum 5/7/2020 8:16:40 AM (No. 403576)
Democrats are down right gleeful at the opportunity to test out their new found communist muscle. Who would have believed six months ago that we would be acting like jackbooted German SS. It is appalling and what is even worse is our fellow Americans willing to go along with this tyranny. Clearly, we are learning that freedom is fragile and must be defended. This is the future that the democrat party has in mind for us if they ever gain the majority again. I think we know what we have to do. First we resist, pushback and then go to the polls in massive numbers to destroy this radical beast once and for all.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
volksford 5/7/2020 9:00:33 AM (No. 403635)
This from a damn state that has allowed itself to be overrun with illegals carrying measles, tuberculosis etc.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
reefdiver 5/7/2020 9:07:10 AM (No. 403642)
So California is becoming China. Maybe some of those people forced into quarantine will never be seen again?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/7/2020 9:13:51 AM (No. 403649)
Gavin Gruesome.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
marbles 5/7/2020 9:26:46 AM (No. 403662)
If you test negative today that doesnt guarantee that you wont be positive tomorrow. Will everyone be be tested every day forever? And what if you refuse to be tested?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/7/2020 9:44:47 AM (No. 403685)
No different than China, except the bio-hazard men don't put the people they take into dog kennels without windows.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/7/2020 9:48:57 AM (No. 403689)
It's the only way to get enough young healthy workers for the arms factories and the Peenemunde rocket plants. Those too old? Well, they had a good run.
Watch your step getting in the box cars.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Clinger 5/7/2020 9:49:05 AM (No. 403690)
Hey Gavy baby, jack that up to 25,000 to match what Stalin did to round up the Kulaks. You don't have to reinvent the wheel you know.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Jobe 5/7/2020 10:08:30 AM (No. 403708)
What a bonanza for the Left. This corona-virus has proven itself to be the Trojan horse by which the Left sees itself destroying the Constitution and erasing once and for all that pesky insistence on freedom that has been preserved by conservatives. I guess that the nation will go out "not with a bang but with a whimper" just as the poet suggested.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/7/2020 10:14:48 AM (No. 403714)
Pelosi would say, testing testing testing quarantine quarantine quarantine jail jail jail.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Axeman 5/7/2020 10:15:48 AM (No. 403716)
This is beyond outrageous. It's stupid an won't work because only 1 in 100 infected persons are ever tested. So you quarantine the one percent and 99 percent still spread the infection. What have you gained? This is the same as trying to quarantine everyone who has the cold or flu virus. This Newsance is blinded by his newfound fascistic power.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
cold porridge 5/7/2020 10:24:32 AM (No. 403723)
#10, the article does not say one thing about allowing the healthy to go back to work and lifting restrictions on the healthy. Big difference.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/7/2020 10:32:02 AM (No. 403728)
In the past the quarantining of those with highly communicable diseases was not at all unusual. Doctors were required to report those with highly communicable diseases to their local health departments. Years ago,i those inflicted with tuberculosis were moved into special sanitoriums. The COVID-19 recommendations call for self-quarantining. The isolation of a person with COVID-19 in a room separate from the household and in contact with only the caregiver. None of that got such clickbait headlines.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 5/7/2020 10:38:18 AM (No. 403733)
All carriers of the virus meet at the train station and get in the boxcars.
I wonder if 'pretty boy' Floyd ever thought of "stay at home and get well" I guess that's too easy.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/7/2020 11:03:29 AM (No. 403756)
Did some research. Ms Taft is uninformed when it comes to quarantine when there is highly contagious communicable disease. It is governed by Federal law. Not just a state thing, although it has for years been managed in cities across the country by local health departments. In the City where I grew up, a public health nurse would visit to check on the patient’s status and conform their being quarantined in their own home. No children were removed to go anywhere.
Tuberculosis was so serious in the early part of the 20th century that those afflicted with it were often placed in special hospitals for just those patients. This was intended to protect the patient’s family as well as the community. TB was eventually virtually eradicated. It has been brought in by illegals, but we are not facing the numbers they were having to deal with back then.
Contact tracing is something that is believed to be necessary to track just how the COVID-19 virus has spread. They have talked about it in the President’s COVID-19 task force press conferences. It too is nothing new and very important in the case of a new virus about which almost nothing was known. Unfortunately the Ventura health official used language that was over the top, and Victoria Taft was happy to make a big deal of his language.
I am not a fan of media-generated hysteria. A lot of what we are having to deal with right now is due to just that. It is intended to fire us up. What good does it do? Health officials will do what they have to do. They are not infringing on our rights when they keep track of persons with active highly contagious diseases. That is what they have always done. Just without the fanfare.
https://www.hhs.gov/answers/public-health-and-safety/what-diseases-are-subject-to-federal-isolation-and-quarantine-law/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantineisolation.html
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/7/2020 11:16:26 AM (No. 403769)
Meanwhile a sampling of what is going on in other states:
"What is THD doing about COVID-19?”
The Tulsa Health Department (THD) along with Oklahoma State Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is closely monitoring this outbreak and implementing infection control and isolation protocols to prevent the spread of illness in Oklahoma. Local public health experts in Oklahoma are communicating with and educating health care providers and other public health partners about the current situation. Tulsa Health Department epidemiologists perform contact tracing on confirmed cases in Tulsa County to determine potential exposures in the community.
https://www.tulsa-health.org/COVID19
From Georgia:
The state’s public health office is on the brink of launching a new contact tracing program that aims to quickly track down Georgians who may have been exposed to the coronavirus.
The effort, which officials say will involve hundreds of trained state employees and volunteers, is one of the cornerstones of Gov. Brian Kemp’s effort to reopen the economy. The Kemp administration has faced criticism for his decision to ease some business restrictions in a few days. It’s hoping that contact tracing and expanded testing will help contain the spread of the virus and allow Georgians to gradually return to everyday life.
https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional/georgia-prepares-launch-new-coronavirus-tracing-program/Who8vERVmxn1Bf1NycxC9J/
"NC is hiring 250 contact tracers for coronavirus. It got 1,000 applications in 24 hours”
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article242439461.html
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/7/2020 11:23:00 AM (No. 403777)
Here are individual state quarantine and isolation statutes for what appear to be all of the states (I did not count them). We only hear of these when there is a situation like the present (which is rarely). Ms. Taft needs to educate herself.
https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-quarantine-and-isolation-statutes.aspx
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/7/2020 11:47:00 AM (No. 403811)
I foresee some deaths over this outrageous trampling of the Constitution and they won't be from COVID-1984 but from the old fashioned way. Goes for you too, Andy.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
DVC 5/7/2020 12:16:23 PM (No. 403858)
Actual quarantine of sick people has a long history of effectiveness. Locking down people WHO ARE NOT INFECTED is NOT quarantine. In the days of sailing ships, many harbors had a doctor who had to inspect the crew before they could go ashore. If disease was found, the ship flew a yellow quarantine flag until they all either died or were over it. It is effective.
I have no real problem with the concept of quarantining the sick, this is, frankly, the first part of this whole thing which seems to comport with normal pandemic protocols.
If this had been done by locking down all transportation out of NYC, the rest of the country would have far less of this disease.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 5/7/2020 12:20:47 PM (No. 403869)
If this is true, and not just clickbait from GP, Newscum has truly jumped the shark. We all suspected this was the true mission of the app data, but were finding it hard to wrap our heads around this. Are the media going to cover the people being carted off? Or are they going to ignore the massive violations of our civil rights.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
kono 5/7/2020 1:57:22 PM (No. 403976)
Something like this would provide excellent camouflage for authorities to quickly lock up their political enemies without due process. Just claim they tested positive and have them taken into custody, I mean quarantine.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Folsomguy 5/7/2020 6:06:53 PM (No. 404253)
Not in my house!
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/7/2020 11:49:08 PM (No. 404506)
And we thought the Nazis had fled to Argentina.
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