If you’re not already horrified by the things liberals in Washington are saying about getting through the coronavirus pandemic, look at the bill filed in early May by Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois.
The bill is titled “H.R. 6666 — COVID-19 Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone,” or the TRACE Act. It aims to provide $100 billion in funding for the Health and Human Service Department for the purpose of “diagnostic testing for COVID–19, to trace and monitor the contacts of infected individuals, and to support the quarantine of such contacts …”
The bill also says that it will provide, “as necessary, testing [for] individuals and … services related to testing and quarantine at their residences.”
There isn’t much else to it, as of now, but the intention is clear, and that’s to force every single person in the United States into a system that allows the government to monitor the physical contacts between every group and individual. Should anyone be determined to have been infected or come into contact with an infected person, the bill provides for “services” related to testing and quarantine at their residences. How robust would these “services” be? Ordering food for you, or keeping you inside your home? At the very least, the government will be closely tracking whom you’ve come into contact with.
This really is how a lot of our leaders want things to go starting now and continuing well into the future, perhaps even forever.
That’s why New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is literally devising ways to “reimagine” his state.
All of the calls for testing and tracing are less and less about moving past the pandemic and almost now exclusively about the concentration of power and the fulfillment of whatever weird ideas liberals have for “social equality.”
People are reasonably wary about the spread of the deadly virus, and, for a time, it made perfect sense to do as elected officials and health experts advised, so as not to see our healthcare system completely collapse. But that threat is over for the most part. Now we’re seeing politicians look for a way to make the crisis an excuse for seizing personal freedoms.
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this post incorrectly asserted that of the bill would “quarantine [people] by force.” This version corrects that incorrect impression.
