President Trump claims Google and Apple’s technology for detecting COVID-19 poses “big constitutional problems” for “a lot of people.” Google and Apple are partnered last week to create a contact-tracing system for detecting the spread of coronavirus, which will gradually be rolled out in the coming months. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-apple-google-covid-19-tracing-tech-constitutional-problems-2020-4
Category: Civil Rights
Law.com reports: “Lawyers, Professors Push Back Against State Bar Group Call for ‘Mandatory’ COVID-19 Vaccinations”
Ranging from criticism of the bar association group’s interpretation of constitutional-based case law to distinguishing between how case law may be applied to children versus adults, some lawyers and law professors strongly resist the group’s recommendations and arguments for mandatory vaccinations. https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2020/06/04/lawyers-professors-push-back-against-state-bar-group-call-for-mandatory-covid-19-vaccinations/
Rabbi on PJ Media: “The COVID-19 ‘Science’ Is Starting to Scare Me”
As a rabbi, I have always looked at patterns and historical repetitions, and I have to admit… I am starting to get truly frightened. Not of coronavirus, earthquakes, or an increase in crime. I am starting to get scared of “science”. https://pjmedia.com/culture/rabbi-michael-barclay/2020/05/21/science-is-starting-to-scare-me-n412181
Stand for Health Freedom petition – “Say NO to a forced coronavirus vaccine and other compulsory medical interventions”
The Petition: As pharmaceutical companies around the world rush to bring a coronavirus vaccine to market, I strongly object to being forced to receive the vaccine when it becomes available. I oppose any government measures that call for coerced or mandated medical interventions, including mandatory coronavirus vaccinations, and I will vote for my representatives accordingly.
Times of New Rome reports “Face-Masks-For-All Is Not Scientific; But What’s the Harm in Wearing One Anyway?”
Various new government mandates requiring face masks for all people in public places may actually be the most dangerous of all, even more alarming than shutting down the global economy.
Law.com reports “State Bar Group Calls for ‘Mandatory’ COVID-19 Vaccinations, Regardless of Objections”
“Some Americans may push back on the COVID-19 vaccination for religious, philosophical or personal reasons,” says the report released on Thursday by the NYSBA, but, it says, “for the sake of public health, mandatory vaccinations for COVID-19 should be required in the United States as soon as it is available.” https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2020/05/28/state-bar-calls-for-mandatory-covid-19-vaccinations-regardless-of-objections/
Ron Paul Institute reports “German Official Leaks Report Denouncing Corona as ‘A Global False Alarm’”
Germany’s federal government and mainstream media are engaged in damage control after a report that challenges the established Corona narrative leaked from the interior ministry. Germans are saying no to any orwellian solution the government might one day impose out of a questionable “emergency status”, from mass surveillance Apps to mandatory vaccinations. http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/june/01/german-official-leaks-report-denouncing-corona-as-a-global-false-alarm/
Children’s Health Defense reports “The Risks vs. Benefits of Face Masks- Is There an Agenda?”
There has been a shifting of positions on the use of face masks with the COVID-19 outbreak. Initially it was not recommended, then we had different signals from the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams and representatives of the CDC, the NIH and other agencies. There are many important considerations including the risk versus the…
Business Insider reports “WHO says there is no need for healthy people to wear face masks, days after the CDC told all Americans to cover their faces”
There’s some evidence that caretakers of infected people can protect their health by wearing masks, the WHO guidance said, but “there is currently no evidence that wearing a mask (whether medical or other types) by healthy persons in the wider community setting, including universal community masking, can prevent them from infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19.” https://www.businessinsider.com/who-no-need-for-healthy-people-to-wear-face-masks-2020-4
Lawfare Blog on “The Long History of Coercive Health Responses in American Law”
After examining more than a dozen varieties of preventive detention allowed by American law, we concluded that, despite the “civic myth” that preventive detention is disfavored and rare, it is neither prohibited nor “especially frowned upon in tradition or practice.” Surprisingly, American law allows quite a lot of it. One of the areas we examined…