Papers, Please.

So, about those certificates of immunity. Why are people freaking out about this? Obviously in a health emergency, rights are massively curtailed. Quarantine measures have been around since probably before the invention of writing. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some cave painting somewhere of some coughing villager stuck in his hut.

My problem with creating a registry of immune people/certificates of clearance, is the law of unintended consequences. Immune people are probably going to enjoy some privileges, like going back to work. So, if I'm a young person who's out of work, I would try to get infected as quick as possible to get that clearance to rejoin society.

That's my problem with this. I don't get the constitutional argument. During a deadly pandemic, we suspend a lot of constitutional rights. Why has the idea of these certificates riled people up so much? What do they think the govt. is going to do?

 

The people resisting this will be the same ones that think the progressive countries cheated by starting up faster and with fewer deaths.
Lot's of good jobs going around to sick people and asking them who they have been in contact with though.

 

Watch this get nipped in the bud without going into 4th, 5th, penumbras, 14, and a whole mountainpeak of other law. And watch me do it as if pulled from a magic hat, will do two versions of the trick for your amuazing edification and prestidigitation.

1. Abracama damalamajam!

"Certificates of Immunity will have a disproportionate impact on minority communities, both blacks and especially... illegal aliens." Will create a huge Mack Truck hole in all kinds of POLICE actions, Stop Frisk, ICE, and so MUCH other carefully crafted Democrat law for 70 YEARS! POOFGONE-O! Sanctuary Cities? WHOOSH VANISH!

Want to see a black caucus and a bunch of whites look like a McDs after midnight? and on the floor of the HOUSE no less? Are you ready to rumble?

...and the shoostopper!

2. Brapakillywinkus and Mekelikihoho!

"Certificates of Immunity must be issued in conjunction with these little plastic cards that most people have already but that EVERYONE must be given who doesn't have one already. What is that kind of thing called again? That thing that people could use to -infect- polling places if they didn't have it and present it -ONCE-, those little square plastic laminated cards? Rotor FLY-T? Pikcher IT? what was it again? something like that. Mhmm.

And just like that, ladies gentlemen, with a couple of waves of the magic wand, just like that, POOF, Certificates of Immunity will never ever be heard about again from the LW!

Isn't that AMAZING!

 

Well! if someone came to your work infected with Ebola, wouldn't you have preferred they had a Certificate of Immunity, before you found out you had been infected and started Bleeding out of every Orifice in your Body. If a Certificate of Immunity is what it takes to stop the spread of this Disease, it's a GOOD thing.

 

Great post, but never underestimate their abilities of hypocrisy.