A round-up of Thanksgiving policies in the Land of Liberty (TM), COVID-19 edition:
- “Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Encourages Residents to Call Police on Neighbors Violating COVID Rules” (Yahoo!) “This is no different than what happens if there’s a party down the street and it’s keeping everyone awake,” Brown said in an interview Friday. “What do neighbors do [in that case]? They call law enforcement because it’s too noisy. This is just like that. It’s like a violation of a noise ordinance.” … Violators can face up to 30 days in jail, $1,250 fines or both.
- “New York City to add COVID-19 checkpoints at bridges, crossings”
- “Vermont schools will ask students if they celebrated at home” (WCAX): Gov. Phil Scott says that next week school children and their parents will be asked if they attended gatherings outside their households. Any who say “Yes,” will be required to quarantine at home and participate in school remotely. Scott says businesses will be encouraged to ask the same questions of their employees.
- “Denver Mayor Hancock flies for Thanksgiving after urging others not to travel due to COVID-19”: As Denver Mayor Michael Hancock sent messages on social media and to city staff Wednesday asking everyone to avoid traveling for Thanksgiving, he was on his way to Mississippi to celebrate the holiday with his wife and daughter.
Feel better about paying $trillions for the military that protects us from losing our liberty to the Canadians or Mexicans!
An immigrant originally from Moscow: “I never imagined that one day people would have more freedom in Russia than in the U.S.”
If you’re a sports car enthusiast, this floor sign from the National Corvette Museum might be a good addition to your living room before the relatives show up…
(Photo taken on Monday. Hardly anyone was adhering to this rule. Just as the Swedish MD/PhDs predicted, once you tell humans that masks will protect them, they don’t worry about proximity to other humans.)
Readers: I hope that your turkey cooking goes well! Our dish towel:
Connecticut: $10,000 fines for businesses, up from $500.
“Connecticut businesses that violate the state’s COVID-19 restrictions and capacity limits will now be subject to fines of $10,000 per violation beginning Thursday.”
https://www.courant.com/coronavirus/hc-news-coronavirus-ned-lamont-fines-20201125-vhiznwnl7zaqxiap2oqdfs4nsy-story.html
“‘Democratic’ societies … the state can’t control behavior by force. It can to some extent, but it’s much more limited in its capacity to control by force.” – Noam Chomsky, Chronicles of Dissent; Propaganda in the US vs in the USSR (24 October 1986)
“When you think it’s time to bury your guns, it’s really time to dig them up” – All and sundry.
philg,
As an avid reader of this blog, it seems to me that you are back to travelling all over the world with nary a problem.
So from a practical point of view, have you experienced any substantial practical restrictions to your ability to travel?
I haven’t been out of the U.S. since coronapanic began. Within the U.S., I guess it is fairly easy to travel if you’re willing to break the law, e.g., by ignoring the latest batch of governors’ orders. But I try to comply with the rules. So I can’t go out of state, except perhaps as part of flight training (“essential”) without quarantining for 14 days or getting a PCR test (which, of course, is almost impossible to get in Maskachusetts since 90% of the testing capacity is used up with repeated tests of invulnerable college students).
The more relevant question is what one does once gets there. So much is shut down within the U.S. that the motivation to travel is missing.
Los Angeles: you’re either praying or you’re marching:
“If the board approves the proposed restrictions, the only gatherings allowed would be outdoor church services and outdoor protests — though they would both have to adhere to social distancing and face covering guidelines.”
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/11/25/los-angeles-county-coronavirus-surge-proposal-to-prohibit-all-gatherings-thanksgiving/
@Alex – what a great line for license plates in CA. Don’t think they would like “Live free or die”. Happy Thanksgiving.
In Oregon they want you to call the same police they want to defund?????????