I just got a really interesting and useful “fact check”, which is to say an on-line visit by political Commissars who believe I have doubted in public the Party’s Direction, Benevolence, and Omniscience.
Here is what is interesting: The following verbiage WAS ALREADY ON THE BOOKS IN WASHINGTON STATE. The “fact check” intended to point out this is not new.
But does any sane person think that this could not be USED for COVID patients? IT’S THE LAW.
How many other States have laws like this? I don’t think any of us have any idea.
Net, net, the article was technically wrong, but absolutely enlightening.
“1) At his or her sole discretion, a local health officer may issue an emergency detention order causing a person or group of persons to be immediately detained for purposes of isolation or quarantine in accordance with subsection (3) of this section, or may petition the superior court ex parte for an order to take the person or group of persons into involuntary detention for purposes of isolation or quarantine in accordance with subsection (4) of this section, provided that he or she:
(a) Has first made reasonable efforts, which shall be documented, to obtain voluntary compliance with requests for medical examination, testing, treatment, counseling, vaccination, decontamination of persons or animals, isolation, quarantine, and inspection and closure of facilities, or has determined in his or her professional judgment that seeking voluntary compliance would create a risk of serious harm; and
(b) Has reason to believe that the person or group of persons is, or is suspected to be, infected with, exposed to, or contaminated with a communicable disease or chemical, biological, or radiological agent that could spread to or contaminate others if remedial action is not taken; and
(c) Has reason to believe that the person or group of persons would pose a serious and imminent risk to the health and safety of others if not detained for purposes of isolation or quarantine.”