Outbreak on Clavius.Complete news Blackout.H.Floyd to investigate and report.
mattd
mattd at useoz.com
Sat Dec 29 05:38:49 PST 2001
Subject: quarantine on Clavius and corralitos.
During a health emergency, health officials would be able immediately to
take over any materials or facilities "as may be reasonable and necessary"
for emergency response -- including the management of a health care
facility and the rationing of medicine and other supplies if a shortage
develops.
They could compel a person to submit to a physical exam or test without a
court order or be charged with a misdemeanor offense and face the
possibility of forced isolation. Physicians and other health workers could
be forced to do the testing or face criminal liability.
Court orders would be required for quarantining someone, but faced with an
immediate threat, officials could quarantine first and go to court afterward.
The law sets forth a procedure for contesting court orders and for hearings
on the need for continued isolation. Officials could compel people to be
vaccinated or treated for infectious diseases, though not those likely to
suffer serious harm from a vaccination. The law would shield officials and
their agents from civil liability, except in cases of gross negligence or
willful misconduct.
[George] Annas, the Boston University critic, says that the law's major
problem is that it gives "tremendous powers to unnamed and unaccountable
public health officials to order people examined, treated, vaccinated or
quarantined and do it with immunity unless acting with willful malice.
Mousepox that was converted to a selective strain that infects white men
only with 100% fatality rates is suspected.It is believed a professor R ,a
molecular biologist accidently released the virus on a recent trip to
sacramento.
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