Bill would give Andrew Cuomo power to detain people for suspected COVID-19

There is no doubt that Andrew Cuomo is loving his newly found COVID-19 emergency power and the glowing media coverage that comes with it and now the State legislature is set to hand him even more power. According to this story a bill has been introduced in New York which would allow Andrew Cuomo to lock people up if he thinks they pose a COVID-19 threat to the public. Here is more:

A bill introduced by a member of the New York State Assembly would amend the public health law, permitting the governor of the state to order the removal and/or detention of a person deemed to be a “suspected case, contact or carrier of a contagious disease” who would “pose an imminent and significant threat to the public health.” The person in question then would be “detained in a medical facility or other appropriate facility or premises designated by the governor.”

A couple of scary things there besides the obvious affront to the Constitution, notice the terms “suspected” and “other appropriate facility?” You do not even have to have a confirmed case of COVID-19, Andrew Cuomo just has to say he thinks you do and he can have you locked up. And what is another “appropriate facility” to lock somebody up in over a medical issue if not a medical facility? Could it be a FEMA camp or something along those lines?

Here is some of the actual text of the bill in question:

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Removal and detention of cases, contacts and carriers who are or may be a danger to public health; other orders. The provisions of this section shall be utilized in the event that the governor declares a state of health emergency due to an epidemic of any communicable disease. Upon determining by clear and convincing evidence that the health of others is or may be endangered by a case, contact or carrier, or  suspected case, contact or carrier of a contagious disease that, in the opinion of the governor, after consultation with the commissioner, may pose an imminent and significant threat to the public health resulting in severe morbidity or high mortality, the governor or his or her delegee, including, but not limited to the commissioner or the heads of local health departments, may order the removal and/or detention of such a person or of a group of such persons by issuing a single order, identifying such persons either by name or by a reasonably specific description of the individuals or group being detained.

Such person or group of persons shall be detained in a medical facility or other appropriate facility or premises designated by the governor or his or her delegee …

Removal and detention, does that sound like America to you? And he will have the power to hold a person up to 60 days without a court order. This is insane and the people of New York had better wake up quickly and realize COVID-19 is turning into Andrew Cuomo’s Reichstag fire, and it will not end in New York if he is allowed to get away with this.

malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium