Philippines' Duterte threatens unvaccinated people with arrest

[BlueWavePsych]

Source: CTV

MANILA -- Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday people who have not taken COVID-19 shots will be arrested if they disobey stay-at-home orders as infections hit a three-month high.

Duterte in an televised address to the nation said he was asking community leaders to look for unvaccinated people and make sure they were confined to their homes.

"If he refuses, if he goes out his house and goes around the community, he can be restrained. If he refuses, the captain is empowered now to arrest recalcitrant persons," Duterte said.

Daily coronavirus infections in the Philippines hit the highest since Sept. 26 at 17,220 cases on Thursday, the health ministry said, including those caused by the Omicron variant of COVID-19.


Read more: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/philippines-duterte-threatens-unvaccinated-people-with-arrest-1.5729850

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Hmmm ... we should do that here

[PatrickforB]

1. The single best thing we could all do to end the pandemic.

You are not free here to yell 'fire' in a theater. Why should you be free to infect people around you with a deadly disease?

[OneCrazyDiamond]

7. You are free to yell fire in a theatre.

Especially when it is in fact on fire.

You are not allowed to falsely yell fire in a theatre with impunity.

[NutmegYankee]

12. Actually, you might be able to falsely do it.

The yelling fire reference goes back to the Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, Michigan on December 24, 1913. It was referenced in the SCOTUS decision Schenck v. United States 1919, which established the clear and present danger doctrine. That was later overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969, which established the imminent lawless action doctrine.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

14. Thanks.

I learned something.

[Picaro]

2. Now I agree with Duterte?

Great. This is like a stopped clock is right twice a day.

While this sounds a bit draconian and heavy handed you don't have to look far to find current examples of this type of action in Austria and Italy(there may be others as well).

There is ample precedence for this type of legal action here in the U.S. Look up the case of Typhoid Mary. Look up the story of Washington forcing his troops the accept inoculation for small pox and confining them to Boston until they had been inoculated.

There are numerous grounds on which to do this. One overriding one--National Security--has been used a number of times for other freedom limiting and freedom abusing purposes.

I'm sick to death of the minority morons not just refusing the vaccine, but claiming the vaccine is killing people. While any medication can have adverse results--I've yet to hear of any numbers, significant or otherwise, of people dying or almost dying after taking the vaccine.

This will never end if we can't either force these idiots to take the vaccine or make them stay in isolation.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Hear, hear!

[Bayard]

3. Yeah, I could go for that

We keep relying on anti-vaxers good sense and concern for fellow humans, when they have none.

I still think we should be using the old spreading of infectious disease laws that were used in the beginning of HIV. They're still on state books.

[LeftInTX]

4. Well, that's the end of that right-wing world leader love fest.

[catsudon]

5. why? he could go one step further

and imitating chinese government and weld people's door shut.

[marie999]

6. He's getting soft. I thought he would just have them shot.

[orangecrush]

9. Yup

[Carlitos Brigante]

11. That would be the "2nd warning". nt

[rpannier]

13. Wait until you see the jail that holds them

Some old copper mine that they get dropped in

[honest.abe]

10. This is why many Filipino people like Duterte.

He is hard core and often crazy but his strict approach to governing is what many think is what the Philippines needs.