{"id":39078,"date":"2020-06-11T12:26:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39078"},"modified":"2020-06-11T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T16:26:07","slug":"something-to-watch-while-everything-else-is-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39078","title":{"rendered":"Something To Watch While Everything Else Is Going On"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Washington Times posted an article about contact tracing in the era of the coronavirus. Since the article is behind the subscriber wall, I found it on Outline<\/a>. The article reminds us how the government can easily abuse its power under the guise of tracking contacts to prevent the spread of a virus.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

From The Hill, in a piece titled, \u201cA day in the life of America\u2019s contact tracing army,\u201d comes<\/a> this quote of Kelsey Green, a contact tracer working for the Carroll County Health Department in Maryland: \u201cIt\u2019s not a fun job at times,\u201d she said, in reference to the telephone calls she makes to people to inform them they may have come into contact with someone who\u2019s tested positive for the coronavirus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She went on to say: \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t want to hear it, but when they do hear it, they\u2019re receptive and thankful. It seems a little intrusive, but it makes me so happy if someone answers [the phone], and I\u2019m able to tell them, \u2018Hey, you\u2019ve been in contact with someone who\u2019s tested positive. Can you quarantine?\u2019 \u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quarantine?<\/strong><\/p>\n

How about this as a response: Who the freak are you? Hang up, hang up quick. Hang up quick and call the police; there\u2019s a stalker on the streets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

If the government says you have been exposed to the coronavirus \u2014 then that\u2019s it, you\u2019ve been exposed to the coronavirus. And now you must stay home. Now you must cede your civil liberties.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now you must do as the government says.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now you must obey.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is America, post-COVID-19, and the \u201cnew normal.\u201d Where are the Republican lawmakers on this?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Congress, at least the conservatives in Congress, need to step in and put a speedy end to these crazily unconstitutional designs with legislation that makes clear: Neither contract tracers nor their minions in the bureaucratic health fields have power to tell free citizens what to do, positive coronavirus test results be danged.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Free American citizens are only free so long as they are able to keep control of their most basic private and personal decisions. If the government can tell citizens what to do when they\u2019re sick, or maybe sick, or might be sick, or have maybe crossed paths with someone who is sick, or maybe sick \u2014 well then, that\u2019s the end of freedom in America as we know it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The \u201cnew normal\u201d is no America at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If we are still a country in five years, I wonder how we will look back on this. Please follow the link above to read the rest of the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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