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New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine

posted by martyb on Thursday April 11 2019, @12:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the disease-outbreak-spotted dept.

mrpg writes:

If using the law to corral antivaxxers doesn’t work at first, try, try again. At least, that seems to be the lesson learned by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. On Tuesday, he declared a state of emergency and mandated residents of the Williamsburg neighborhood, where an outbreak of measles has been raging since last fall, get vaccinated for the viral disease. Those who choose not to will risk the penalty of a $1,000 fine.

https://gizmodo.com/new-york-city-orders-williamsburg-residents-to-get-vacc-1833917175

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @12:16PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @12:16PM (#827857)

    I mean really, government mandated medical procedures. We all know where this is headed, straight back to the 1920/30s with forced sterilization, etc. Here is a movie about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_%282001_film%29 [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @01:00PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @01:00PM (#827885)

    Oh FFS. Talk about hyperbole. What's next, when they quarantine a bunch of infected, highly contagious you're going to start calling it concentration camps?

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @01:27PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 11 2019, @01:27PM (#827896)

      Yea, if they start quarantining people with minor colds or the flu I will be scared. Quarantine is fine to enter a place, like making a ship sit in port for a week. But going to people's homes and locking them up, no.

    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 11 2019, @07:35PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday April 11 2019, @07:35PM (#828208) Journal

      Their freedom to walk around infectious ends at dead babies.