From Bloomberg News:

Rhode Island Police to Hunt Down New Yorkers Seeking Refuge

Is it legal to hunt New Yorkers now?

Is there a bag limit?

What caliber is legal for New Yorkers?

Are we allowed to hunt them over bait?  What sort of bait would you use for a New Yorker, an overly expensive slide of mediocre pizza or a hotdog that’s been macerating in fetid cart water for a couple of weeks?

Where do I go to get my New Yorker hunting permit?  Or are they considered an invasive species that local governments encourage to be eliminated like Burmese Pythons in the Everglades?

Rhode Island police began stopping cars with New York plates Friday. On Saturday, the National Guard will help them conduct house-to-house searches to find people who traveled from New York and demand 14 days of self-quarantine.

“Right now we have a pinpointed risk,” Governor Gina Raimondo said. “That risk is called New York City.”

That is the best sentence I have read in a news article in the last… oh, forever.

I cannot agree with this sentiment more, not just on COVID-19 but on general principles.

New York is the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., on Friday reporting a total of 44,000 cases.

Rhode Island has just over 200, and it has begun an aggressive campaign to keep the virus out and New Yorkers contained, over objections from civil liberties advocates.

Many New Yorkers have summer houses in Rhode Island, especially in tony Newport, and the governor said the authorities would be checking there.

The sheer ballsy arrogance of wealthy New Yorkers, not wanting to get stuck in NYC with the infected ruffians who don’t have summer homes, they feel entitled to break quarantine and use voluntary isolation and telecommuting to enjoy some R&R at their vacation home.

“Yesterday I announced and today I reiterated: Anyone coming to Rhode Island in any way from New York must be quarantined,” the governor said. “By order. Will be enforced. Enforceable by law.”

This is like a zombie movie where the government is trying to control the outbreak and figure out who’s been bitten.  I’ve seen this movie, I know how it ends.

One of the more amazing things about the Coronavirus is just how much it’s unified people outside of New York City to hating rich people from New York City.

Florida was the first state to crack down on New Yorkers trying to wait out the lockdown in their vacation homes.  I covered how the locals in the Hamptons are just about ready to isolate themselves from residents of New York City by blowing up the bridges that connect them to the City.

Now it’s Rhode Island.  Soon enough I expect every state with a beach or city known for being a second home hot spot for rich New Yorkers to implement the same sort of crackdown.  These people are possibly infected and pose a real risk of spreading their infection into areas that are just not equipped to handle it.  They don’t have the right to spread their infection just because they are rich enough to own a vacation home.  They can’t buy their way out for quarantine like rich people bribing their way onto the lifeboats of the Titanic.

I can tell you, in Alabama, we don’t have many New Yorkers who vacation on the gulf coast, but if the state did need to go after rogue New Yorkers, they’d have no problem recruiting people for a posse to hunt them down.