I know we're not supposed to say it out loud because the virus might be listening but it is actually very very very not-constitutional for the mayor to make having a friend over a crime
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Free travel/standard quarantine restrictions are also a big deal, but confining citizens to their homes with the exception of a few approved activities amounts to house arrest without due process. I think we're seeing very few citations for fear of serious future settlements
Consider the exceptionally high bar for e.g. long-term involuntary psychiatric holds vs. the high-but-much-lower bar for 72-hour evaluation holds. And now consider that healthy people willing to subject themselves to testing are suddenly under blanket home confinement.
