Miguel covered how the Michigan Governor used her authority to tell Home Depot to shut down “non-essential” areas of the store like gardening and flooring, and how cops in Philadelphia were pulling non-masked riders off public transportation.
It seems that social distancing is working to control the spread of the virus.
At the same time, it’s helping to exacerbate the spread of massive government overreach.
Case 1:
In an incident caught on video, a former Colorado State Patrol trooper said he was handcuffed in front of his 6-year old daughter on a near-empty softball field Sunday by Brighton police officers enforcing social distancing rules.
The park was closed.
He also refused to hand over ID, which always makes things worse, and he was eventually released, but that playing catch at a nearly empty park initialized a police response to begin with, is a problem.
Case 2:
A paddle boarder was arrested by authorities in Southern California after ignoring lifeguards’ orders to get out of the ocean for at least 30 minutes despite statewide beach closures due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Bystanders recorded video of the incident near Malibu Pier on Thursday.
It showed a man on a paddle board glide inside the choppy waters while lifeguards were telling him to come back ashore. The man was arrested on suspicion of disobeying a lifeguard and violating a stay-at-home order issued by Governor Gavin Newsom.
Images posted to social media show the man being led in handcuffs by at least two sheriff’s deputies who also confiscated his board. The suspect was booked at a sheriff’s station in Calabasas and released on a promise to appear in court, according to the sheriff’s department. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of six months in jail or a $1,000 fine.
Because being a hundred feet from shore, alone, on a board puts him at risk for catching and spreading the virus.
So the cops made contact with him, arrested him, and presumably took him to jail where he’d be infected or would infect other people.
He’d be in less trouble if he walked into a store and shoplifted $950 in masks, gloves, hand sanitizer, and toilet paper.
Case 3:
The state of Kentucky is taking new action to discourage individuals from participating in mass gatherings, such as church services, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Friday.
The state will be recording the license plates of those who show up to any mass gatherings and provide that information to the local health departments, who will in turn order those individuals to be quarantined for 14 days, according to Beshear.
Beshear said the state is down to less than seven churches state-wide that are still “thinking about” having an in-person service this weekend.
It’s only Easter weekend. The holiest few days in the Christian calendar. Of course the government will punish those who are caught going to church on Easter Sunday in the middle of the Bible Belt.
I don’t want a second spike in the virus. I don’t want more people to die. But can we agree that arresting dads at empty parks with their kids, paddle boarders alone on the water, and people going to Easter Sunday Mass is a pretty overbearing thing to do?
It seems that what is being enforced has less to do with the virus than it does with capricious officious bureaucracy.
You can’t un-ring a bell. Once politicians and police get the big idea that they can get away with this level of crackdown because of a virus, it’s not difficult to believe that they will be willing to flex that muscle over anything else they deem is an emergency.
Case 4: National immunity cards required
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/04/10/dr-anthony-fauci-national-immunity-id-cards-may-be-needed/
On the positive side, maybe the Dems will stop complaining about having to show photo ID to vote.
Have police been so “rule bound” that they no longer use personal discretion in these instances? Are they wearing face shields/masks.
Hint: isn’t a slot of pepper spray an antidote for the spitters?
JoAnn, it’s not so much “rule bound” as “clueless about the Constitution they swore to protect and defend”.
CBBM, I don’t expect this to change the Dems at all. They understand driver’s licenses just fine, they want all gun owners to have gun licenses — but they adamantly reject the notion of voter ID. In spite of what they pretend, this has nothing to do with ID or not having it — they hate voter ID because it prevents voter fraud. They love vote by mail (and vote by Internet if they could get away with it) for the same reason.
Seen elsewhere:
Chickenshit like this keeps up and someone is apt to start shooting.
It seems to me that simple citations could of handled most of those issues.
In case one the park was NOT closed. Their was a sign limiting group sizes and the group of two was far below that limit. Not all states require you to show ID upon request. IN is one such state.