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Should the government enforce a “stay-at-home” order to combat the coronavirus?

A “stay-at-home order” is an order from an authority to restrict movements of a population as a strategy for suppressing an epidemic or pandemic. Residents are ordered to stay home except for essential tasks or going to work in essential businesses. The order was widely used by governments after the outbreak of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In January 2020 the Chinese government used the order to restrict the residents of Wuhan from traveling to outside of the city. In the following months governments including those of Italy, Spain, France, Denmark and the United Sta…  

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 @84ZWD6L from Pennsylvania  answered…4yrs4Y

No, this is should be left to the states

 @gtbensa from Florida  answered…4yrs4Y

At the time, given the information, it was the right decision. But we cannot stay closed forever.

 @7PTCG38  from Wisconsin  answered…1yr1Y

Yes, but this should be determined and enforced by state governments based on the rates of contacted cases of COVID-19 and related hospitalizations within their own territories

 @7PTCG38 from Wisconsin  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but this should be determined by state governments based upon the rise or decline of Covid-19 rates within their individual state territories

  @ShortTimeNoSeeLibertarian from California  answered…6mos6MO

No

While the intent of such orders is to protect public health, they infringe on individual freedoms and self-determination. Empower individuals and communities with accurate information and resources to allow them to make informed decisions about their own health and safety.

Facilitate voluntary measures; allow businesses to implement their own safety protocols, provide transparent data on the risks, and encourage personal responsibility. This respects both public health concerns and essential liberties. By trusting individuals to act in their own best interests, society can better achieve the shared goal of overcoming public health crises without resorting to coercive and divisive mandates.

 @7PTCG38 from Wisconsin  answered…2yrs2Y

No, this should be determined by state governments based upon the rise or decline of Covid-19 cases within their own territories

 @7PTCG38 from Wisconsin  answered…2yrs2Y

No, this should be determined by state governments based upon the rise or decline of Covid-19 cases within their own territories.

 @7PTCG38 from Wisconsin  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, but this should be determined by state governments based upon the rise or decline of Covid-19 cases within their own territories.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…4mos4MO

Trump's Deportation Storm: America Braces for Mass Exodus of Immigrants

For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.

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