1. I will research whether this is true. Nothing in the post indicates where this is being done so it may take some time.

   But I will tell you, Executive Order 04.02.20.01 closes Georgia schools for the rest of the year, and says nothing about transporting patients. So my first impression is this is a hoax. We shall see,

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2. I read about stuff like this in Georgia, police in North Carolina informing protesters that “protesting in not an essential activity”, politicians in Kentucky sending police to harass and cite church goers, and various other totalitarian actions, and I’m reminded of all the gun owners who, only a few months ago, were smugly telling me I was a sucker for staying put in upstate New York and I should move to a “free state”. I don’t write this to say “I told you so” because I never thought things would spiral down the Orwellian rabbit hole so fast elsewhere. But my goodness, some of these politicians elsewhere are making Andrew Cuomo look like Ron Paul.

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   1. Although the NC protest message is documented with date and time and source, this is NOT yet documented. It may be bogus or it may be some local agency playing stupid games. Or it may be real and have a typo. The language has the right feel to it, and we know that what has happened in Mississippi and North Carolina and Kentucky is not at all different in idea.
      Remember that Southern States have been plagued by corrupt local law enforcement since the Northern Occupation (excuse me, “Reconstruction”) and have the same problems with corrupt politicians and bureaucrats and Northern States do. And it is really a matter of relativity. NO state is really “free” any more, but some Southern States are more so than West Coast or Northern States. I will put a plug in for the Axis of Evil states that have refused to lockdown, especially the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Nebraska (at least, Western Nebraska). They all have their tyrannical moments but much less than the rest of the Fifty States, and being emptier (of people), have more leg and arm room.

3. Ahh hmm, well take a look at this presentation at DPH (Georgia.gov) from 5.5 years ago:

   Basic Questions
   •Can the government restrain your movement or detain you for being sick or exposed to an illness? Yes

   bunch of justifications and such follows.

   https://dph.georgia.gov/sites/dph.georgia.gov/files/Infectious%20Disease%20Summit%20Legal%20Authority.pdf

   1. Thanks for finding this! Very good information, and very specific. And rather disturbing.

      This brings up many questions. One is “what states that a State has “police power” in either the US or the Georgia Constitution? Common Law? Fevered imagination of statists? Another: where does the State Constitution give the Governor’s powers to impose Executive Orders on the general population? Just a few.

      1. It would have to be the state constitution. The US Constitution says that (a) the Federal government has only enumerated powers, and (b) all other powers are held by the states except for those specifically prohibited, in which case they are held by the people.
         So as far as the US Constitution goes, state powers are not enumerated, they are full powers. It’s up to the state constitutions to limit those powers.
         The above ignores the “incorporation” of Federal bill of rights protections onto the states, and also the fact that at least one of the bill of rights articles (the second amendment) is worded as a general prohibition rather than a prohibition only on the federal government.
         Bottom line, “police powers” is a general term applied to what states do, and they have it to the extent that it isn’t specifically disallowed by either constitution.

4. https://www.sgrlaw.com/coronavirus-can-georgia-government-officials-order-an-individual-quarantined-for-public-health-reasons/

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