{"id":39806,"date":"2020-08-25T09:05:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39806"},"modified":"2020-08-25T09:05:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:05:17","slug":"rules-for-the-little-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39806","title":{"rendered":"Rules For The Little People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/08\/hollywood-stars-attending-video-music-awards-state-will-not-subject-new-yorks-14-day-quarantine-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hollywood Stars Attending Video Music Awards From Out of State will Not be Subject to New York\u2019s 14-Day Quarantine Mandate<\/h1>\n<p>This infuriates me. I live in North Carolina and can&#8217;t visit my grandchildren without a two-week quarantine, but Hollywood stars are not subject to quarantine. So the coronavirus only attacks people that don&#8217;t have a lot of influence?<\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Hollywood stars traveling to New York City from out of state for the MTV Video Music Awards will have the special privilege of skipping the state\u2019s 14-day quarantine mandate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Under Governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s mandate, anyone who travels to New York from any of the 34 \u2018high risk\u2019 states must quarantine for 14 days. Violators may be fined up to $10,000 or jailed for 15 days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article quotes The New York Post:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>But unlike other travelers, the VMA musicians, singers and dancers won\u2019t have to follow a state rule to quarantine for 14 days if they come to New York from any of 34 states, including California and Florida, with average COVID infection rates exceeding 10 percent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Under an executive order by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, anyone who violates the quarantine order is subject to a fine up to $10,000 or up to 15 days in jail.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>But the state Department of Health has granted the VMAs a semi-exemption to the quarantine rule.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>To receive the exemption, the VMAs agreed to police itself with \u201crigorous safety protocols including testing and screening and compliance checks by a special compliance officer.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article also reminds us of another recent privileged class that was except from coronavirus rules:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Democrat Mayor of DC Muriel Bowser exempted Democrat lawmakers returning from Rep. John Lewis\u2019s funeral from the mandatory 14-day quarantine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I live in a section of North Carolina that has a low rate of the virus. Why am I not allowed to visit my grandchildren?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Gateway Pundit reported the following: Hollywood Stars Attending Video Music Awards From Out of State will Not be Subject to New York\u2019s 14-Day Quarantine Mandate This infuriates me. I live in North Carolina and can&#8217;t visit my grandchildren &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39806\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12501,7020,12561,1693,9500,8311,11716],"class_list":["post-39806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coronavirus","tag-eastern-north-carolina","tag-governor-cuomo","tag-hollywood","tag-new-york-state","tag-quarantine","tag-the-gateway-pundit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39807,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39806\/revisions\/39807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}