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Because of a new court ruling that just came down last week, the state of New York has just gotten one step closer to attaining the ultimate pandemic power—being able to designate certain classes of individuals as a health threat, forcibly relocating those individuals to specially designated “housing facilities” and keeping them there for as long as the government wants. They’d also have the power to control what that person does or does not do.
However, if these new government powers sound like the very definition of a “quarantine camp,” according to the AP fact-checkers, you would be wrong.
Episode Resources:
???? Assembly Bill 416:
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???? Section 2.13:
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???? Full Oral Arguments:
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???? Lawyer Interview:
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???? AP Fact Check:
https://ept.ms/3QX2xdO
