Mississippi orders those infected with COVID-19 to isolate or face possible fines & jail time

[SheltieLover]

https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/mississippi-orders-those-infected-with-covid-19-to-isolate-or-face-possible-fines-jail-time/522-8d4d733c-f417-4d03-b641-6b4603fbeacd

The Mississippi Department of Health issued an order Friday, requiring those who are infected with COVID-19 to isolate, or possibly face a fine and jail time.

JACKSON, Miss — The Mississippi Department of Health issued an order Friday, requiring those who are infected with COVID-19 to isolate, or possibly face a fine and jail time.

The order released by Mississippi’s State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs says for any person living in Mississippi, upon first learning they are infected with COVID-19, they must isolate at home. The order includes those who are fully vaccinated and become infected.

More at link. I wish it was MANDATORY sentencing upon conviction!

[samplegirl]

1. Best thing I've heard

If you can’t blow smoke next to someone you surely shouldn’t have the right to infect someone!

[Beachnutt]

2. A Red state but I'll except it

maybe it will be the first domino to fall and all states will follow suit or set a precedence.

[Lovie777]

3. Red state - masks, vaccinations % low ......

Tons of people don't know the symptoms because many were feed disinformation concerning the virus. Many just think it's a common cold until it's too late.

[33taw]

4. The politicians are realizing their supporters are dying quickly.

[secondwind]

5. So THIS is the best they can do, huh?????

[trof]

7. Exactly

So, if you're infected and NOT in the hospital?
Then we tell you're infected...HOW?
This is a nothing-burger.
Mississippi...WOO HOO.

[dianaredwing]

10. Mississippi God Damn

Nina Simone

[keithbvadu2]

6. That's NOT freedom.

That's NOT freedom.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Everything they told them wasn't a problem is now a problem

Seems to me the State of Mississippi has a credibility problem here.

[marble falls]

9. About time.

[jpak]

11. A little too late I think

Stupid motherfuckers

Yup

[IronLionZion]

12. Without mandatory testing, people would just lie about it

Sick people could just choose not to be tested. Then there are asymptomatic people who don't know they're infected.

[ShazzieB]

13. Nice try, Mississippi (I guess).

No mandatory testing?

Here's your participation trophy: trophy Since you seem to at least be pretending to participate in trying to control this plague. Or something.

[Marcuse]

14. A federal reg authorizes confinement by order of the CDC. Issued on President Obama's last day.

42 CFR § 70.6 - Apprehension and detention of persons with quarantinable communicable diseases.

a) The Director may authorize the apprehension, medical examination, quarantine, isolation, or conditional release of any individual for the purpose of preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of quarantinable communicable diseases, as specified by Executive Order, based upon a finding that:

(1) The individual is reasonably believed to be infected with a quarantinable communicable disease in a qualifying stage and is moving or about to move from a State into another State; or

(2) The individual is reasonably believed to be infected with a quarantinable communicable disease in a qualifying stage and constitutes a probable source of infection to other individuals who may be moving from a State into another State.

(b) The Director will arrange for adequate food and water, appropriate accommodation, appropriate medical treatment, and means of necessary communication for individuals who are apprehended or held in quarantine or isolation under this part.

[82 FR 6971, Jan. 19, 2017]