He Was Ordered to Self-Isolate. He Didn’t. Now He’s Facing Criminal Charges. | Talking Points Memo

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In a highly contagious pandemic…Americans should STOP spreading Covid because people die, not just the KAGs (Kill American Geriatrics) whom the Greed-Over-people Party wants to sacrifice for the economy but even younger Americans!

More alarming as the Trump supporting White Supremacists who planned to use Covid as a bioweapon through “saliva,” a “spray bottle” or “laced items,”…

Well deserved!

He needed a gun so he’d be free to come and go as he pleased, or die trying, maybe taking a few folks with him. It’s the American way!

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He Was Ordered to Self-Isolate. He Didn’t. Now He’s Facing Criminal Charges.

Bloomberg reported this morning that the Chinese released figures stating that 1,541 Chinese citizens are known to be symptom-free carriers of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

Anyone who is ordered to self-isolate/quarantine and fails to do so is promoting the spread of the pandemic and is a serious danger to the public. The bullets they shoot travel slower, but they kill all the same. So yes, criminal charges should be filed.

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Absolutely no sympathy for Mr. Liddle, and his whining disgusts me. Part of the outbreak in western NH can be traced to a single individual who ignored orders to isolate himself after returning from Northern Italy. Instead he went to a business school function.

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“I get that people are afraid, but I am not going to go out and willingly get people sick.”

Intent isn’t the issue here. No one who drives drunk intends to kill someone, but a number of them do. Engaging in an act in a such a manner as to recklessly endanger another life has the same effect as an intentional act.

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Sometimes it’s very hard to tell where the boundary between southern Illinois and northern Mississippi actually exists.

Betting Mr. Liddle has a mullet and a MAGA hat.

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The Pennsylvania woman was charged with four felonies.

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The real story here is that he didn’t get tested.

Also that he got in a car with his family and was driving to visit the in-laws. :woman_facepalming:

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Well, for how long were we all being told that you were fine until you had symptoms? That was so obviously not true at the time. The attempt to keep people from panicking and affecting Trump’s precious economy has really backfired.

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O whine whine whine - I didn’t know! Yeah ignorance of the law ain’t a defense. Why me? Because you posted on your fucking FB page that you might be positive and then got all upset when you went out in public anyway and got in trouble for it.

If you didn’t want to get hassled, why did you tell the world on your fucking FB page? You do know how FB works?

You selfish self-involved piece of shit! You never even worried about infecting your inlaws? What is wrong with you?

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If he has a court order mandating self-isolation or quarantine, he has no argument regardless of what BLOTUS IMPOTUS bloviates. He can ignorantly believe a serial pathological liar all he wants, but the moment he breaks that court order, he’s gone too far. If he wants to fight the court order, then he should get an attorney, but stay in isolation until the court removes the isolation order.

Read up on Mary Mallon. She failed to honor court orders. She came to be known as “Typhoid Mary”. Multiple people died because of her. She was asymptomatic.

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Who told him to self-isolate? A doctor, a friend, his dog? Does he have any symptoms? How does he know he has it without a frickn’ test?! Unless the answers to these and other questions are forthcoming, I smell a rat.

Maybe he doesn’t like his in-laws.

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