🐱 'Reopen NC' organizer tested positive for COVID-19, says quarantine a violation of civil rights

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From the “We Tried To Tell You” files comes a cautionary tale from North Carolina. On April 21, North Carolina’s MAGA contingent took to the streets to demand businesses reopen and get back to business as usual despite the fact that COVID-19 cases are still surging, there are still no reliable antibody tests, no vaccine, and most importantly, the body count is still climbing. With the help of a shady network of right-wing organizations promoted by Fox News, these “reopen” events took off nationwide.

Now one of the “Reopen NC” organizers says she tested positive for the novel coronavirus. According to ABC 11, Aubrey Whitlock shared the news on the “Reopen NC” Facebook page, which can only be viewed by members. Whitlock said her 14-day quarantine period ended on Sunday and she was asymptomatic, but when contacted by ABC 11’s Jonah Kaplan about whether Whitlock had attended rallies the last two Tuesdays, Whitlock simply said, “No comment.” If she did attend, she risked the lives of hundreds of her fellow neighbors. Whitlock did confirm that she planned to attend a rally this week.


The News & Observer reports Whitlock was upset she was forced to quarantine after her positive diagnosis. Whitlock had some nerve to compare her predicament to those with other disabilities.

“I have been told not to participate in public or private accommodations as requested by the government, and therefore denied my 1st amendment right of freedom of religion,” Whitlock wrote. “If I were an essential employee, I would be denied access to my job by my employer and the government, though compensated, those with other communicable diseases are afforded the right to work. It has been insinuated by others that if I go out, I could be arrested for denying a quarantine order. However, the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination by employers, places of public accommodation, and state and local government entities. Where do we draw the line?”
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Where do we draw the line? We draw the line at people like Asymptomatic Aubrey running around infecting an untold number of her neighbors because of her own selfishness. The worst part is, each of these infections and all these nonsense rallies only spread the disease wider and further delay openings.
 
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As I said in the other thread - she's not wrong. It's legal to give people HIV but not legal to coof.
If you object to people with HIV serving you food, you're a bigot. But you can't go to work or the beach coz of the coof.

@tuscangarder would like this article. He'd say "HERE'S WHY AIDS IS GOOD!" and then get mass neg rated like he should. Good times.
 
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I mean if it were Ebola, SARS, or God forbid something with a kill ratio like the Bubonic Plague; I'd be all for locking the bitch up in quarantine.
I'm kind of on the fence with this one, honestly. On one hand, you shouldn't be denied civil liberties for catching a coof. On the other hand, that would also set the precedent for Pozzers to claim that giving everyone AIDS is their constitutional right.

That being said its fucking hypocritical that the media coddled Ebola nurse who felt the need to break quarantine and bike around her neighborhood, then wants to lock up healthy people over WuFlu.

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Oh no, that's like 2% chance of death (if she's above the age of 50). What should she do!?
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I mean its like 0.5% now with some projections saying it might be as low as like 0.1%.
 
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heathercho said:
As I said in the other thread - she's not wrong. It's legal to give people HIV but not legal to coof.
If you object to people with HIV serving you food, you're a bigot. But you can't go to work or the beach coz of the coof.
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The person with HIV serving you food is less likely to spread their disease through that food as compared to someone with the coof. Also when the AIDs scare was happening, people were a lot worse to infected people than we are to coof victims today.

It's easy to downplay the virus, but theres always the possibility that you can end up a statistic. Putting yourself out there and catching it is still rolling the dice regardless.
 
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It's easy to downplay the virus, but theres always the possibility that you can end up a statistic. Putting yourself out there and catching it is still rolling the dice regardless.
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Simply leaving your house is rolling the dice. A car might pop a tire and careen on to the sidewalk. You might get shot in a drive-by. A communications satellite might break apart, whoosh through the atmosphere, and obliterate you.
 
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OfficerBagget said:
The person with HIV serving you food is less likely to spread their disease through that food as compared to someone with the coof. Also when the AIDs scare was happening, people were a lot worse to infected people than we are to coof victims today.

It's easy to downplay the virus, but theres always the possibility that you can end up a statistic. Putting yourself out there and catching it is still rolling the dice regardless.
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You roll the dice when you catch the flu. That shit kills lots of people, even with a much feted, low efficacy vaccine.

This has a 96% survival rate. At the LEAST. Your chances of dying of this are next to nothing. If you become HIV+, even if you reduce your viral load, what it does to your body long term is terrible. No one lives a magically great life with HIV.
The body's immune system copes, sometimes, with great caveats. California has shrugged at knowingly transmitting HIV. If you get a specific strain of HIV, you're fucked.

The coof is much like the flu. It's not Sars and it's not Ebola. It's not even TB - something people forget about, yet is bought in by the bucket load, has outbreaks and the local govs cover it up instead of re-issue standardised TB vaccine regimes. Look at Minnesota. They bought in all those bulbheads and didn't utter a word about the TB spreading.
They'd scream about discrimination if it was people telling immigrants they couldn't do x, y and z because they might have the lung pop, but this, because it's politically expedient to do so, is highly policed.

This is a politicized coof. Like, I don't think anyone can deny that now, the media and opposition govs are basically saying yes, this is political.
 
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You roll the dice when you catch the flu. That shit kills lots of people, even with a much feted, low efficacy vaccine.

This has a 96% survival rate. At the LEAST. Your chances of dying of this are next to nothing.
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99.33% if the study from the UK is to be believed.
99.5% if the study from New York is to be believed.
99.75% if the studies from California are to be believed.

If you become HIV+, even if you reduce your viral load, what it does to your body long term is terrible. No one lives a magically great life with HIV.
The body's immune system copes, sometimes, with great caveats. California has shrugged at knowingly transmitting HIV. If you get a specific strain of HIV, you're fucked.
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Minor correction: Its only a misdemeanor to knowingly give someone The Gift in California.
Even the great progressive urban metropolis of diversity is still steeped in oppressive heteronormative Poz-phobia.

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If conservative white people were the ones saying we should all be quarantined liberals would be the ones saying it needs to end.
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"How dare you deny me my Starbucks and Avocado Toast to save the BOOMERS! Selfish old people yet again ruining our futures to save themselves!"
 
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People are going to get sick in greater numbers and die in greater numbers when we open things back up.

The problem is we don't have a real-world alternative to that path that doesn't end in monstrous famine. In the third world, in the first world. Everywhere.

None of us want to die. But more of us will die if we don't end this artificial shutdown and start reducing the effects of the looming and entirely government-created recession/depression. Believing we have another option is an admission that you are either too scared to think deeply about what we're all facing or that you essentially believe in magic.
 
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Because getting infected with coronachan is some form of gotcha that the media thinks will stop people from protesting.

heathercho said:
As I said in the other thread - she's not wrong. It's legal to give people HIV but not legal to coof.
If you object to people with HIV serving you food, you're a bigot. But you can't go to work or the beach coz of the coof.

@tuscangarder would like this article. He'd say "HERE'S WHY AIDS IS GOOD!" and then get mass neg rated like he should. Good times.
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Wait @TuscanGardner got fucked? what happened?
 
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People are going to get sick in greater numbers and die in greater numbers when we open things back up.

The problem is we don't have a real-world alternative to that path that doesn't end in monstrous famine. In the third world, in the first world. Everywhere.

None of us want to die. But more of us will die if we don't end this artificial shutdown and start reducing the effects of the looming and entirely government-created recession/depression. Believing we have another option is an admission that you are either too scared to think deeply about what we're all facing or that you essentially believe in magic.
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If you reopen the economy, you expose the people who create jobs for you to the virus and cause more of them to die.
If you don't reopen the economy, only people who don't create jobs will die.

It's clear which one is worse for the economy.
 
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heathercho said:
As I said in the other thread - she's not wrong. It's legal to give people HIV but not legal to coof.
If you object to people with HIV serving you food, you're a bigot. But you can't go to work or the beach coz of the coof.
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HIV is sexually transmitted. If you have HIV, you can't donate blood. If you mention you have HIV on a dating site, you'll get swiped left (right?).

If you contaminate people's food publicly, you WOULD get in trouble. Rightfully so.

Cases like this are only proving them wrong with a quarantine being a "civil rights violation". You won't know if you have it for two weeks but could still get others sick. If anything, they'll EXTEND the lockdown.

I get that people need to go back to work. But I feel they are making this worse before it gets better.
 
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