Judge voids NY's Covid isolation, quarantine regulations

[ARPad95]

https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2022/07/judge-voids-nys-covid-isolation-quarantine-regulations.html

Published: Jul. 12, 2022, 10:14 a.m.
By Tribune News Service
By Michelle Del Rey | Times Union, Albany

Albany, N.Y. — In a decision that could impact the management of future health crises, a state Supreme Court justice in western New York ruled that the state’s new-minted isolation and quarantine procedures were produced by an unconstitutional process.

In a case brought by three Republican state legislators, state Supreme Court Justice Ronald Ploetz of Cattaraugus County shut down Rule 2.13, which states that “whenever appropriate to control the spread of a highly contagious communicable disease,” the state health commissioner may issue and/or direct local health officials “to issue isolation and/or quarantine orders, consistent with due process of law, to all such persons as the State Commissioner of Health shall determine appropriate.”

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The judge said the law could conceivably grant the commissioner the power to force anyone into isolation or quarantine, despite a lack of evidence that a person is infected with Covid-19.

“Involuntary detention is a severe deprivation of individual liberty, far more egregious than other health safety measures, such as requiring mask-wearing at certain venues,” he wrote. “Involuntary quarantine may have far-reaching consequences such as loss of income (or employment) and isolation from family.”

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https://ballotpedia.org/Ronald_D._Ploetz

2012 election

Ploetz was elected to the Cattaraugus County Court. He was elected after running unopposed in the general election on November 6, 2012. He was cross-endorsed by the Democratic, Republican, Conservative and Independence parties.[2][3][4]

I want my freeDUMB to infect others! Why should I care about the wellbeing of others if I'm not having any symptoms?

[Tomconroy]

1. Back to law school, judge.

[ARPad95]

3. That and get informed about pandemics and infectious diseases.

I mean, really. Did his miss the part when New York was ground zero in early 2020 and thousands of New Yorkers were dying a horrible death?

[Initech]

2. What could possibly go wrong?

[underpants]

4. Look you morons, your DEAR LEADER screwed up big time

A colossal Clustertrump from ignoring it, to not doing anything, to mocking and politicizing it, and many other things. It was going to be bad but there’s no way WE should have had it THAT bad. History will not be kind to him or anyone who stills tries to pretend that it wasn’t one of the HUGEST screw ups ever.

[Retrograde]

5. Were they shopping for judges?

Cattaraugus county is extremely red and mostly rural, with a declining population. You could probably go maskless and vaccineless there without much effect, since the odds of running into someone outside your circle are so small. Unlike in Manhattan, where the number of subway riders on a given day exceeds the Cattaraugus county total population by about 2 orders of magnitude.

(It is a beautiful place, but redneck central)