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2020-03-30 Home Front: Culture Wars
Rhode Island National Guard Searches House-to-House for New Yorkers Fleeing the Wuhan Virus, Can Hunting Them for Sport Be Far Behind?
[Red State] - A little earlier this year, there was a huge kerfuffle over a Hollywood picture called "The Hunt" in which rich, effete liberals tried to acquire a patina of heroic virtue by hunting down human quarry who were thinly disguised Trump supporters. Now this scenario is beginning to play out for real.

This is from Bloomberg, so it may or may not be true, but because it is coverage of a Democrat politician in a Democrat stronghold, I’m assuming the story on-the -ground is worse than this:

    Rhode Island police began stopping cars with New York plates Friday. On Saturday, the National Guard will help them conduct house-to-house searches to find people who traveled from New York and demand 14 days of self-quarantine.

    ...

    Many New Yorkers have summer houses in Rhode Island, especially in tony Newport, and the governor said the authorities would be checking there.

    "Yesterday I announced and today I reiterated: Anyone coming to Rhode Island in any way from New York must be quarantined," the governor said. "By order. Will be enforced. Enforceable by law."
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-30 03:42|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 "Your papers, please..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-30 06:36||   2020-03-30 06:36|| Front Page Top

#2 This is from Bloomberg, so it may or may not be true

The cherry on the dystopian sundae: we have reached the point where formerly respectable, bland journalists and media outlets are so full of lies, hysteria and flat-out disinformation that simple daily reportage can't be trusted.
Posted by Lex 2020-03-30 08:13||   2020-03-30 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Dunno. Long-standing tradition of hating summer folk newyawkers when I was growing up in the Berkshires and VT.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-03-30 08:39||   2020-03-30 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 It's built in. We want the tourists' money, we just wish they would mail it to us and stay home. Probably the same in ancient times.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-30 08:44||   2020-03-30 08:44|| Front Page Top

#5 easy solution: 'Me No Speakie Ingles'

even with the WuFlu, sanctuary cities are still a thing right
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-03-30 08:54||   2020-03-30 08:54|| Front Page Top

#6 But, but, but I thought New York was a sanctuary city ?
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-30 08:59||   2020-03-30 08:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Escape from New York was a prophecy.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-03-30 09:13||   2020-03-30 09:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Lefties care so much about their rights. Yours, not so much.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-30 09:36||   2020-03-30 09:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Declaration of war, right?
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-03-30 10:09||   2020-03-30 10:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Escape from New York was a prophecy.

I thought you were dead, Snake...
Posted by Raj 2020-03-30 10:39||   2020-03-30 10:39|| Front Page Top

#11 When you cheer about a movie about hunting down deplorables, but the real life version isn't what you expected.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-03-30 13:41||   2020-03-30 13:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Florida Highway Patrol stopping NY plated cars on I-95/I-10 right now
Posted by TZSenator 2020-03-30 14:55||   2020-03-30 14:55|| Front Page Top

#13 I can't see interstate travel continuing much longer. How can the damn thing be isolated with everyone on the move ?
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-30 15:20||   2020-03-30 15:20|| Front Page Top

#14 If I was a dirt bag, I'd be at a rest stop somewhere in Georgia or Alabama approaching people in NY and LA plated cars with some nice fake FL plates.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-30 16:24||   2020-03-30 16:24|| Front Page Top

#15 #13 That's what the democrats of New York are counting on. And why they'll sue to make other states take their disease vectors people.
Posted by The peanut gallery 2020-03-30 19:53||   2020-03-30 19:53|| Front Page Top

#16 The get plague cases in CO but unlike NM docs, they don't get the diagnosis till its too late, but not too late to ship to NM for treatment. Guess who get the 'dead by plague' count?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-30 21:06||   2020-03-30 21:06|| Front Page Top

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