Thursday, August 6, 2020

Here I thought border barriers were wrong...power grabs, its for your own good.

New York's COVID checkpoints: Cops stationed at tunnels and bridges to question travelers from 35 COVID-19 hotspot states and order them to quarantine for 14 days - but none of the promised 'army of tracers' show up at Port Authority

  • Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the plans for checkpoints on Wednesday morning and they were not due to begin until Thursday 
  • Photos taken by DailyMail.com on Wednesday night show sheriff's officers at the Goethals Bridge toll plaza between New Jersey and Staten Island  
  • They scanned drivers' plates and pulled people over at random to ask them where they had been   
  • De Blasio sternly warned those flouting would face fines of up to $10,000
  • But it remains unclear how the 14-day quarantine will actually be enforced once people pass the checkpoints
  • On Wednesday, contact tracers at de Blasio's press conference said they'd be reaching people by phone 
  • The online form that people are required to fill out when they reenter NY asks if travelers will consent to receiving texts from the government
  • If travelers say their final destination is not New York, they are not required to give an address 

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