PA Counties locked down

[Hodgie]

President Biden say he will make masks mandatory NATIONWIDE , by Executive Order , indoors and out!

Well then he should go and eat some shit and die then.

[bogey1]

President Biden say he will make masks mandatory NATIONWIDE , by Executive Order , indoors and out!

I just drove past swarthmore college, through swarthmore.
They would all be onboard with that mandate.

[nijwnfi]

And of the 7800 deaths reported statewide, only 6% are real according to the CDC...

Fauci was really quick to "Correct" that as soon as he returned from surgery.

[HanzMcFeely]

Fauci is an doublespeaking idiot like the rest of them. Wishy washy and cant stop contradicting his own statements.

They’ll never be able to enforce a nationwide mask mandate. It’s my understanding that it’s already been opined as being unconstitutional...

[Tacgunner]

And what, will they require only certain colors of masks to be worn by certain people? Will it be only "approved" masks? Will they forcibly move those who refuse masks into ghettos, er, confinement for their "safety"? We already have "re-education" in the schools showing who is, and isn't, a "superior race". We already have the BLM "Blackhoodies" burning businesses.

Is the next step the "required" vaccine shots? To me, those required (and untested) vaccine shots are the same as lining up people next to a ditch and executing them. Unknown health effects, and then making them unemployable if they refuse the vaccine. Essentially "Un-personing" everyone who rejects the Leftist leadership. The "leadership" of the Left has gone too far, and they are the ones who are one step from needing to be treated like Ceau*escu and his wife were (check your history for answer). Time for the Left to simply abandon the whole Biden campaign and try again in 4 years. They have spent the last 4 years placing America on the brink of chaos, they need to back down. The October Surprise should be Biden announcing that he withdraws from the race and folds the whole Democratic campaign, for the good of the nation. He can simply say he's too ill/old to continue and walk away with dignity.

[bogey1]

And what, will they require only certain colors of masks to be worn by certain people? Will it be only "approved" masks? Will they forcibly move those who refuse masks into ghettos, er, confinement for their "safety"? We already have "re-education" in the schools showing who is, and isn't, a "superior race". We already have the BLM "Blackhoodies" burning businesses.

Is the next step the "required" vaccine shots? To me, those required (and untested) vaccine shots are the same as lining up people next to a ditch and executing them. Unknown health effects, and then making them unemployable if they refuse the vaccine. Essentially "Un-personing" everyone who rejects the Leftist leadership. The "leadership" of the Left has gone too far, and they are the ones who are one step from needing to be treated like Ceau*escu and his wife were (check your history for answer). Time for the Left to simply abandon the whole Biden campaign and try again in 4 years. They have spent the last 4 years placing America on the brink of chaos, they need to back down. The October Surprise should be Biden announcing that he withdraws from the race and folds the whole Democratic campaign, for the good of the nation. He can simply say he's too ill/old to continue and walk away with dignity.

Cant wait.

[ImminentDanger]

Governor's authoritarian orders during pandemic ruled unconstitutional
Gov. Tom Wolf ignorant of the U.S. Constitution
By Andrew P. Napolitano - - Wednesday, September 16, 2020
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...l-work-and-as/

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

A federal court in Pennsylvania this week has become the first in the nation to rule that the lockdown, social distancing and essential workplace regulations imposed by Gov. Tom Wolf are unconstitutional.

The judge found that the governor's orders were so inconsistent, so bereft of any rational basis or scientific model, and so ignorant of the U.S. Constitution the governor swore to uphold that he invalidated all of them.

Here is the backstory.

The whole purpose of the Constitution has been to establish a federal government and, at the same time, to limit it. Some of the limitations are in the body of the Constitution itself. Most are in the amendments. A prudent study of the founding era makes it clear that more than half the states ratified the Constitution only upon the promise by the Constitution's drafters of the addition of a Bill of Rights.

The key figure in the era is James Madison. Madison had three phases in his public career. The first was as a radical, along with his neighbor Thomas Jefferson, urging revolution against the British king because he taxed without representation and interfered with commercial activities and personal liberties.

Madison's second phase was as a promoter of a strong central government, along with Jefferson's enemy, Alexander Hamilton. The Constitution "which he basically drafted" offered both a devastation of state sovereignty and a roadmap for regulatory control over economic activities that would permit the new government to pick winners and losers.

His third phase was as an anti-federalist, or Democratic-Republican, back with Jefferson, and to which he went as soon as he saw how the federalists during the presidencies of George Washington and John Adams twisted and abused the words he wrote in the Constitution.

The turning point for Madison was the establishment of a central bank. Madison's famous Bank Speech shows a radically transformed thinker. He argued that there was no power in the Constitution for Congress to establish a bank and that the power to do so was intentionally left to the states. He also argued that government can only do what the people authorize it to do, subject to their inherent natural rights.

Some of Madison's motivations might have been personal. But by the time he drafted the Bill of Rights, he was firmly in the Jeffersonian, small government, maximum individual liberty camp. That camp produced what we now have as the first 10 amendments, the essence of which is that our rights are natural, they come from our humanity, and thus, government may not constitutionally impair them without due process.

The ambiguities of constitutional verbiage "or perhaps Madison's genius" and the modern judicial reluctance to call a natural right a natural right have produced two due processes: One is procedural, and one is substantive.

Procedural due process mandates that the government may not interfere with anyone's life, liberty or property without a fair hearing before a neutral judge with constitutional protections and based on laws and procedures that preexisted the government's interference.

Substantive due process is another phrase for fundamental, prepolitical or natural rights. When a right is protected by substantive due process and the government wants to interfere with it, the government must show a compelling state interest in what it wants to do, and that it is addressing that interest "by the narrowest possible means" before we even get to the fairness and hearing phase.

Now, back to the case in Pennsylvania. The court ruled on three issues. The first addressed the right to assemble peaceably, whether for political, religious or commercial purposes.

Mr. Wolf argued that, in the name of public safety, he can arbitrarily decide in what venues one can assemble and in what venues one cannot. For example, Mr. Wolf permitted huge assemblies in Walmart, but no assemblies in small family-owned stores that sell the same products as Walmart. The court invalidated that distinction as unrelated to any legitimate governmental purpose.

The second and third issues addressed were the right to travel and the right to work. The court recognized that Mr. Wolf's arbitrary designation of occupations as essential or nonessential had no basis in the Constitution. As well, the practical effect of compliance with those designations was to keep some folks at home and to allow others to travel to work.

Yet, the right to travel "across the street or across state lines" is a fundamental liberty and thus protected by substantive due process. Mr. Wolf and his team could not meet the high standard needed to interfere with it.

Most importantly, the court found that the right to work in a calling of one's choosing is protected by substantive due process. Stated differently, this federal court is the first in the modern era to characterize the right to work as fundamental. Therefore, government may only interfere with it for compelling reasons and using the narrowest means possible.

No governor in America who has persisted in interfering with this right during the COVID-19 pandemic has met this high standard.

The significance of characterizing the right to work as fundamental cannot be overstated. Since 1934, the federal courts have characterized nearly all expressive and intimate rights as fundamental, but they have excluded commercial rights.

Stated differently, since the FDR years, some rights have gotten more protection from government interference than others, making it far easier for the federal government and the states to regulate commercial activities than to regulate the freedom of speech.

If this opinion is upheld, then all these authoritarian gubernatorial orders regulating personal behavior implicating travel, assembly and choice of work will fall.

Beyond that, the right to make personal choices in the marketplace will have acquired an immunity from government interference that Madison surely intended but never lived to see.

* Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is a regular contributor to The Washington Times. He is the author of nine books on the U.S. Constitution.

(Bolding mine)

Of course, the appeal to the full court, like so many other assaults on our Rights, is likely to result in confirmation that the Constitution is no longer The Law of The Land! Even if, by some miracle, this ruling would be affirmed, it will be appealed up the chain. Loss of Power Cannot Be Tolerated!

In fact, if affirmed, I would almost guarantee that a Right To Work would be distorted by the left into A Right To A Job - and more welfare programs would ensue...

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[ImminentDanger]

Chester County to notify thousands of 'potentially inaccurate' coronavirus test results

By - Associated Press - Wednesday, September 16, 2020
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...tially-inaccu/

WEST CHESTER, Pa. A Pennsylvania county has acknowledged that tests it purchased from a local biotech start-up produced "potentially inaccurate" results for thousands of people.

Chester County vowed this week to reach out to those who received the "questionable test results" in late May and to appoint a consultant to review the purchase of the antibody tests, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

The news comes days after the newspaper reported that the county spent $13 million in federal pandemic aid on a no-bid contract to Malvern-based Advaite. The testing program was intended to identify essential workers who had developed disease-fighting antibodies, which show up in the blood after COVID-19 infection.

In the first few weeks after testing began May 7, the tests produced results that appeared to be accurate. But two weeks later, the percentage of people testing positive for coronavirus antibodies began spiking to levels far above what was plausible, based on the prevalence of the virus in the area. The county eventually shelved the program June 2.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says antibody tests should not be used to diagnose COVID-19. But Chester health officials and their lab partner decided to interpret certain results as signaling a current infection. Patients with those results received emails stating: "You may have COVID-19. You are likely contagious. You should isolate yourself at home."

The county, though, never informed those who may have received false alarms, nor did it disclose the questionable results - about 6,100 of the 19,425 tests it conducted - on its website.

Chester County said Tuesday that its three-member Board of Commissioners would appoint an "independent legal consultant" to review the process associated with sourcing and procuring the antibody tests.

(Bolding mine)

Just one more example of Deliberate Lying about the coronavirus, thereby Inciting Public Panic!

(Here's one of the original stories about their effort: https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/20...e-individuals/)
(And another about the horrible response for the Most Vulnerable, in this case, Veterans: https://www.inquirer.com/news/southe...-20200425.html)
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[streaker69]

Can we please have someone investigate any connections between the company that was awarded the no-bid contract and anyone within the county government? Also, is the county doing anything to recoup that money because of the delivery of a shit product?

[Hodgie]

Can we please have someone investigate any connections between the company that was awarded the no-bid contract and anyone within the county government? Also, is the county doing anything to recoup that money because of the delivery of a shit product?

Yeah probably looking to raise the taxes of the 11 people who are still working in that county after this lock down nonsense.