They tried to pull that one in Oregon. It stood for all of about 48 hours before another judge smacked it down, basically with “Don’t be an idiot. This emergency didn’t go away in 30 days.”
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They really need to dig back to see what kind of powers were permitted in a declared public health emergency.
We’re out of practice with pandemics, but the legal ruts should still be there, and it shouldn’t be necessary to go back as far as the Spanish Flu.
But if some “Originalist” wants to object, perhaps they should review the reaction to pandemics by the founders at the time the Bill of Rights was ratified, under President Washington.
December 15, 1791 Bill of Rights ratified.
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It was separate but equal…
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I suspect that it was done deliberately.
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Wow, that’s it! Nobody is saying to wear a mask! What an ass.
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Interesting. If a new strain has developed, it’s not like all the infections out there got the word and switched to the new variant. It mutated in one place and then re-spread globally – which doesn’t say much for efforts to limit it.
Look for the Covid Truthers to mangle this as proof that the virus is getting weaker, “and will someday disappear, like a miracle”, which isn’t what it says, only “not more severe”.
The joys of an infectious disease that uses error-prone RNA reproduction. It’s going to keep spitting out variations as long as it has hosts.
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This is my MP
Now the centrists can blame both sides, even though Anneliese is soft left, not Momentum.
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I pointed it out somewhere above, AFAIK the ‘new’ mutation is the prevalent strain in many areas (including the US) and arrived in Europe very early in January. AFAIR it can be traced to a Shanghai cluster, but my memory is vague.
It does, but this one is different because it is a functional mutation which has had a positive selection effect. Most mutations are either silent or negative, so they are just helping us.
I argue that we need to be careful with reports about mutations, because the general public already fears a situation like with the flu, where new strains pop up basically every year, and comparably many have high pandemic potential. This is, to the best of my knowledge, not the case with this Corona virus.
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Oh my. Or rather WHAT THE FUCK.
Seriously, no offense, but my experience with people from the isles is that, in general, they are not very good with alcohol. Or rather: a large proportion of all Brits and Irish I ever met in pubs around the world were drunk as a skunk after some time.
Men and women.
Opening the pubs on a Saturday is the third most stupid idea this Gouvernment had in a while.
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-california-went-from-success-story-to-virus-hot-spot
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Heading into Memorial Day weekend, California’s mood was celebratory. The state had avoided dire predictions of a coronavirus surge, hospitalizations were starting to decline and restaurants and most other businesses had reopened.
As July 4th approaches, the mood has soured. Infection rates and hospitalizations are rising fast. Most bars have been ordered closed along with inside dining at restaurants. Many beaches are off-limits or have restrictions to limit crowds. Fireworks shows are canceled and Gov. Gavin Newsom is imploring residents to avoid the holiday tradition of backyard barbecues and other gatherings of relatives and friends.
“Literally you would go from Macy’s furniture store which is in Irvine, which is where you would have to have your mask on, to Best Buy across the street and you wouldn’t,” she said. “Our perspective has always been its easier to have one statewide ordinance or mandate that we all follow that we can all enforce.”
Wachter, of the University California-San Francisco, said a monolithic set of rules wouldn’t have been workable in a state as sprawling as California.
Just a few paragraphs before, it’s clearly stated that a monolithic set of rules, widely obeyed, was exactly why the state started out so well.
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But how did she get to be Shadow Chancellor? And is she going to be demoted now?
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She was picked by Kier Starmer.
She’s not in Momentum, so I doubt it. Kier Starmer’s actions over the last two weeks have been embarrassing.
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And like most genetic optimization algorithm, how fast new variations appear depends on number of hosts with active infection, so countries that don’t want to control the spread do huge disservice to entire world.
You are right, but mutation rate is one of the parameters that can be optimized and I think that it may optimize itself to allow widest possible spread. I guess that it may currently be low because virus didn’t have to evolve that much to thrive in original host species (like dormant infections in bats).
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Arent we in the new normal now?
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I think that this is why Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia also had initial success. Now, at least in Poland more people are starting to disobey the rules and enforcement is necessary. Last week police came to a supermarket in a small town where I live, and fined everyone that didn’t have a mask. I’m ok with this 
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