🐱 '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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The media puts so many of these articles out to make anyone legitimate that wants to reopen the economy and go back to work so that they can be able to provide, bad, so that they could spread the fearmongering even further.

That's the only LEGITIMATE reason anyway. It's just like the Ohio guy who was saying that it was a "nothingburger".
 
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Scratch This Nut said:
Give it to someone in her life over the age of fifty or with a compromised immune system who probably would die from it?
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So those people should protect themselves rather than demand others to stop their lives and livelihoods despite the huge gap in chance of serious harm, which will reduce serious cases in the long term (herd immunity) and will start getting the economy back to track.
 
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Remember that NYC put 3700 Coronachan deaths as "presumptive" which means they were not tested but their deaths were labeled as such.

Remember all the Karens in the neighborhoods REEEEEEEEEEEEing when normal people do normal people things.

Remember that Chinese doctor who conveniently died when he was trying to expose the start of the pandemic.

The virus is a fig leaf; the real threat are the governments that overnight decided to grant themselves more powers than all the Roman, Byzantine, Persian and Chinese emperors COMBINED.
 
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The virus is a fig leaf; the real threat are the governments that overnight decided to grant themselves more powers than all the Roman, Byzantine, Persian and Chinese emperors COMBINED.
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It's rather bizarre how so many state governments were quick to go this authoritarian. A stay-at-home policy is reasonable. Determining what businesses are essential or non-essential and then not letting the non-essential businesses be able to work is not really reasonable, especially when you don't give money in your budget to support the people who need the technology to work from home and let them starve to death and have less money coming into the house overall.

I'm really starting to hate gubernatorial people, particularly, my guy who is a fucking cuck that says "blaming it on China can lead to projections of racism on our Asian brothers and sisters".
 
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The Pink Panther said:
I'm really starting to hate gubernatorial people, particularly, my guy who is a fucking cuck that says "blaming it on China can lead to projections of racism on our Asian brothers and sisters".
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Gavin Nuisance? I dunno, didn't look it up. But the CaGov's attempt to form a Western States Pact ("Confederacy" was already taken it seems) in order to spite a sitting president and keep its inhabitants unfree is giving me a strong 1861 vibe.
 
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Meat Poultry Veg said:
Gavin Nuisance? I dunno, didn't look it up. But the CaGov's attempt to form a Western States Pact ("Confederacy" was already taken it seems) in order to spite a sitting president and keep its inhabitants unfree is giving me a strong 1861 vibe.
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Phil Murphy.

Fuck Phil Murphy. I had no opinion of him before I became stuck in my home with my parents to do online-uni and they have him on the television everyday. He is the most sanctimonious fuck I've ever heard. Something about him just seems so condescending. That and the fact that he puts so many restrictions on unnecessary shit.
 
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Murphy is a giant faggot and made Jersey an even worse place to be. Don't feel too bad, the governor of PA is just as big of a faggot, but the state is so loaded up with right wingers that he can't have his blue utopia. I was okay with staying home a few weeks if it meant making people better. Now I am done with anything that comes out of a Democrats mouth, if they say don't go outside because the sun will set you on fire, I'm going outside.


Unless we are deporting Chinese by the millions, I am uninterested in your solution, because it isn't one. Someone is going to pay for this.
 
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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.
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JFC, you do know how HIV is spread, right?
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So those people should protect themselves rather than demand others to stop their lives and livelihoods despite the huge gap in chance of serious harm, which will reduce serious cases in the long term (herd immunity) and will start getting the economy back to track.
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People who are staying inside aren’t doing it because they’re scared. If I get it, I’ll be fine. I’m more worried about getting my dad or brother sick. He had pneumonia as a kid.

Nobody wants this to end more than me. This shit has kept me from getting a new job.
 
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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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Rolling the dice with an illness that is avoidable is a completely different thing altogether. You gain nothing from putting yourself out there and catching the sickness. Also by your logic the virus should be another layer of dice you're rolling ontop of all the other dangerous shit you're talking about. The virus is a chance at death nobody wants to add to their already stacked chances of dying.
 
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armoreddinnerjacket said:
That still begs the question though: What is the goal of the quarantines? This can't be an indefinite state held until some magical goal (virus goes away, vaccine is developed, etc.) is met.
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On the socio-economic front: crash the economy and have people begging to line up for microchipping by Bill Gates in order to make it all go away. On the political front: advantage-taking by democrats to try and own Orange Man, a-la Hoover and the Great Depression. All while pushing hardcore for easier exploitation of election ballots, which explains why certain states are having slapfights about mail-in voting.

At this point it'a no longer about the disease and all about power-trippers using it as an excuse to power trip. Fortunately, less people are listening as the days go on.
 
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armoreddinnerjacket said:
That still begs the question though: What is the goal of the quarantines? This can't be an indefinite state held until some magical goal (virus goes away, vaccine is developed, etc.) is met.
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I been looking at various countries and they all seem to have similar plans for reopening. They are laid out in phases. In order to enter the initial phase and beyond countries must have met certain milestones in order to proceed forward such as,

Consistently lowered number of new cases daily
Ramped up efforts for contact tracing
Wearing masks in public
Available hospital space and medical equipment including PPE

Each phase in the rubric will slowly lift restrictions. The final phase will still have minor restrictions and most countries will "hold" in the final phase until the virus resolves itself.
 
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The most interesting thing about the attitudes of the "It's my Constitutional Right to assemble!" types is that they're also known to loudly announce "Your rights end at my nose!" Well, if the latter is true, I have a right to avoid being exposed to carriers, whether they're symptomatic or asymptomatic, regardless of their right to assemble.

If some asshole that's a potential carrier coofs on them, and could cause them to communicate the virus back to vulnerable family/friends/etc., are they going to sperg out, or what?
 
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Scratch This Nut said:
If this dumb bitch went out knowing she had a diagnosis, then fuck her. People like her are just making this shit go on longer.
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Here in Brazil, a hospital in my region laid off 132 employees for lack of patients. Only 3 SUSPECTED of carrying COVID in a city with 240,000 inhabitants, and it serves smaller cities. Empty hospitals everywhere. More people are dying from other illnesses from lack of care than this flu. Videos with body bags originate only from dictatorships.

 
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