Yes, this man is a horses ass for refusing to “self-quarantine” when he knows he’s sick with a highly contagious and dangerous disease…But with that said…is this Constitutional?
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear ordered the police guards and said that this was a step that he hoped he’d never have to take.
Apparently, the man, who is 53-years-old, refused medical care and left the facility and then refused to be “quarantined.”
“We have had the first instance of an individual who has refused to self-isolate,” Beshear said during a press conference over the weekend. He went on to explain, “We have taken the steps to force isolation that will be in their home.”
The governor worked with the local judges to enforce the armed quarantine.
A Nelson County judge-executive reportedly declared “a state of emergency in order to invoke a little-known status that allows him to force a “self-isolation or quarantine” on the patient.
Law enforcement officers are now stationed outside his house to make sure he does not leave and spread the potentially deadly virus.
A Kentucky coronavirus patient has been placed under police guard after refusing to stay under quarantine, the state’s governor has revealed.
The unidentified 53-year-old man from Nelson County recently tested positive at the University of Louisville, but left against medical advice — and also refused to self-isolate at home, Gov. Andy Beshear said at a press conference.
A local judge declared a state of emergency in order to invoke a little-known statute that allows him to force a “self-isolation or quarantine,” the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.
Law enforcement officers are now stationed outside the infected man’s home to make sure he does not leave and spread the potentially deadly virus.
“It’s a step I hoped I’d never have to take, but we can’t allow one person who we know has the virus to refuse to protect their neighbors,” Beshear said at the press conference.
Beshear also revealed that he had been tested himself — with results coming back negative — after attending a public event in Louisville where another attendee later tested positive.
“This, right now, certainly is us against the coronavirus,” he said at a press conference. [New York Post]
Wow, you really hate to hear this happening in America.
Feels bad all the way around, doesn’t it?
This piece was written by Missy Crane on March 17, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.
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