New York’s New Law Setting Up Detention Centers to Lock Up Suspected Covid-19 Cases Heralds a Kafkaesque Nightmare

• New York’s New Law Setting Up Detention Centers to Lock Up Suspected Covid-19 Cases Heralds a Kafkaesque Nightmare
  by Helen Buyniski, https://www.rt.com/
  The New York legislature is weighing a bill that would let the authorities take anyone suspected of having or being exposed to a contagious disease and hold them indefinitely – even forcibly medicating them.
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  Under the new law, New Yorkers may be dragged out of their homes and locked up on mere suspicion of having been ‘exposed’ to the novel coronavirus — no positive test or even symptoms necessary. Once imprisoned in one of the state’s purpose-built facilities, individuals may be forced to submit to a “prescribed course of treatment” including drugs and vaccines — and even then, freedom is not guaranteed.
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  The state’s nightmarish Assembly Bill A416 would see targets locked away for as long as 60 days without a hearing. And while the prisoner has a right to legal counsel, New York health authorities will have the ultimate say in deciding when – and if – they’re no longer contagious. Assuming they ever were in the first place, that is.
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