Catman do you agree with taking sick off cruise ships and putting them on military bases scattered throughout the US?
Don’t you think it would have been a better to put them in one place, oh I don’t know... like Seattle where the first cases presented.
Or at a minimum lock the bases down?
Hmmmmmm
Originally Posted by Lester Krinklesac
I think there is a lot more to forcing an American Citizen into quarantine that people realize. I think getting them back on US soil as quickly as humanly possible was the right thing to do. Were there better places? A base in Seattle perhaps. I'm not aware of a significant base in Seattle but maybe. A VA hospital? What happens to all the Vets who need those services?
The Feds can't just go commandeer an old folks home, a hotel or a hospital and drop some people off and tell them to stay there under threat of penalty. The constitution doesn't allow either. Take a look at the five or six page document that had to be prepared for each of those people who were put in quarantine. It's a court order that basically has to spell out, in detail, the who, what, when, WHERE, and why...it also has to spell out for how long. Without that it is unconstitutional at any level. Even with it the constitutionality can be debated but there are provisions of the constitution which are cited in the order that claim it to be for the health and security of the country. We'll see if anyone challenges that i guess.
Decisions had to be made quickly. Short of a 500 room hotel in Seattle offering up their entire facility for those needing to be quarantined, the Fed's next best choice was to put them on military bases. They had to scatter them because no one single base could handle quarantining them (meaning keep them separated from base personnel and each other) and maintain operations. They had to choose bases that had facilities that could accommodate those being quarantined and still be able to operate as a military installation.