Because of a new court ruling, which just came down last week, the state of New York,

and particularly the governor of New York, has just gotten one step closer to attaining

the ultimate pandemic power, being able to designate certain classes of individuals as

a health threat, forcibly relocating those individuals to specially designated housing

facilities, and keeping them there for as long as the government wants.

And also, they'd have the power to control what these people can and cannot do.

However, if these new government powers sound like the very definition of a quarantine

camp, well, according to this AP fact check right here, you would be wrong.

Although their reasoning is perhaps even more ridiculous than you can probably imagine.

And so, let's go through it all together.

To start with, back in December of 2021, at the height of the COVID pandemic, you had

a bill that was working its way through the New York State Legislature.

This bill would allow the government to take people that they deemed to be threats to

the general public health, and put those people into essentially indefinite detention.

This bill, just for your reference, was called Assembly Bill 416.

And when I personally read this bill back in December, it was, frankly, the most aggressive

piece of legislation I've come across in the past decade.

Let's go through the bill together and you can tell me what you think of it.

You can leave your thoughts down in the comments section below.

Here's how the bill reads, quote, upon determining by clear and convincing evidence that the

health of others is, or may be, endangered by a case, contact, or carrier, or suspected

case, contact, or carrier of a contagious disease, that in the opinion of the governor,

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