Judge Nap: “The State of Massachusetts will be sorry it enacted this because people will revolt against it!”

People become contagious very early in the disease when it would be difficult to distinguish H1N1 from the common cold.

The 150 viruses that cause the millions of upper respiratory viral illnesses in the U.S. each year don't disappear just because there is a scary new virus going around.

Heck, by the time someone's lab test comes back confirmed as H1N1 they are usually either dead or getting over the illness. What are you going to do, immediately quarantine anybody who sneezes?

So slowing the spread will rely on people VOLUNTARILY staying home from school or work if they get sick.

This bill seems to be the product of ignorant legislators being manipulated into undermining individual freedoms to combat a trumped up threat.

Sort of reminds you of the Patriot Act doesn't it?

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danger to the public health the commissioner or local public health authority may exercise the
following authority:
(1) to vaccinate or provide precautionary prophylaxis to individuals as protection against
communicable disease and to prevent the spread of communicable or possibly communicable
disease, provided that any vaccine to be administered must not be such as is reasonably likely to
lead to serious harm to the affected individual; and
(2) to treat individuals exposed to or infected with disease, provided that treatment must not be
such as is reasonably likely to lead to serious harm to the affected individual.
An individual who is unable or unwilling to submit to vaccination or treatment shall not be
required to submit to such procedures but may be isolated or quarantined pursuant to section 96
of chapter 111 if his or her refusal poses a serious danger to public health or results in
uncertainty whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a disease or condition that
poses a serious danger to public health, as determined by the commissioner, or a local public
health authority operating within its jurisdiction.
(c) Furthermore, when the commissioner or a local public health authority within its jurisdiction
determines that either or both of the following measures are necessary to prevent a serious
danger to the public health, the commissioner or local public health authority may exercise the
following authority:
(1) to decontaminate or cause to be decontaminated any individual; provided that
decontamination measures must be by the least restrictive means necessary to protect the public
health and must be such as are not reasonably likely to lead to serious harm to the affected
individual; and
(2) to perform physical examinations, tests, and specimen collection necessary to diagnose a
disease or condition and ascertain whether an individual presents a risk to public health.

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(b) The department shall establish a process to identify personnel in the Massachusetts system
for advance registration, which may include a requirement for photographic identification.

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Section 95. (a) Whenever the commissioner, or a local public health authority within its
jurisdiction, determines that there is reasonable cause to believe that a disease or condition
dangerous to the public health exists or may exist or that there is an immediate risk of an
outbreak of such a disease or condition, and that certain measures are necessary to decrease or
eliminate the risk to public health, the commissioner or local public health authority may issue an
order. The order may be a verbal order in exigent circumstances, and in such case it shall be
followed by a written order as soon as reasonably possible. The written order shall specify the
reasons for it, and may include, but is not limited to:
(1) requiring the owner or occupier of premises to permit entry into and investigation of the
premises;
(2) requiring the owner or occupier of premises to close the premises or a specific part of the
premises, and allowing reopening of the premises when the danger has ended;

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If a person does not comply with the order, and if the commissioner or the local public health
authority determines that non-compliance poses a serious danger to public health,upon request or
issuance of an order by the commissioner or local public health authority, an officer authorized
to serve criminal process may arrest without a warrant any person whom the officer has probable
cause to believe has violated such an order and shall use reasonable diligence to enforce such
order.

Extraction or injection ? They will do what ever we let them do until we stop them.

get between a bear cub and its mother.

Frankly, I think people are more likely to become violent toward government employees trying to do something to their children than they would be if those government employees tried to do it only to them.

This is just the built in mechanism we have to preserve our offspring.

it's still being forced against will if you refuse.

How is that confusing.

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