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20 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Here's today's Rhode Island order. All gatherings of people from >1 household are prohibited (even outdoors), except at a restaurant or with use of a professional caterer, you can host up to 25 people indoors/75 people outdoors. What in the actual hell. governor.ri.gov/documents/orde…
Seriously. It's late and I just taught a long class. Am I reading this wrong?
If I had to guess, they're thinking the restaurant staff (or the caterer?) will be there to keep people separated with 1 household per table. This is elitist nonsense. Outdoor gatherings > indoor gatherings even if you think the waitstaff will police people indoors.
Meanwhile, "Restaurants and bars may serve patrons on-site, indoors and outdoors, until 10:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday."

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22 Nov
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25 Sep
The Public Health Dir. for Boulder County, CO has issued an order prohibiting gatherings of any size for 18-22 year olds & ordering residents of 37 specified addresses to stay at home with narrow exceptions. assets.bouldercounty.org/wp-content/upl…
Fines of up to $5000. Exceptions for approved educational activities, religious rites & worship services. Addresses subject to SAH order appear to be on campus residence halls and off-campus congregate housing.
The order also includes several provisions that apply exclusively to CU students, incl. a requirement to report mode of travel & destination if moving to an alternate location (e.g., moving back home), references possibility health dept may deny approval/prohibit relocation
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14 Sep
In Butler v. Wolf, a federal judge has declared PA's gathering limits, stay at home order & prohibition on non-essential business operations (should they be reinstated) unconstitutional under the 1st and 14th Amendments. pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/148/266888/157…
The court finds gathering limits trigger - & fail - intermediate scrutiny b/c they aren't narrowly tailored. Same argument made by Kavanaugh & others in religious liberty cases: "commercial gatherings" (aka retail shopping) are permitted while other gatherings aren't.
Following a few other judges, Stickman points to inconsistency of officials allowing & participating in protests against police violence, which exceeded permitted limits on gatherings.
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1 Sep
I've been speculating since Feb. abt whether CDC might push the envelope on what Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act authorizes. I didn't expect it to come in the form of a federal eviction moratorium. Wow. I definitely expect this to be challenged in court.
Here's the order: s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspect…
Note: some folks are focusing on 361's quarantine provisions, but 361(a) - aka 254(a) - is broader than quarantine authority. law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42…
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9 Aug
Some of what we've learned about health behavior re: chronic disease prevention is highly applicable to pandemic mitigation....
E.g., this from @Lucy_WellNow: lucyaphramor.com/wp-content/upl…
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The mistake the US makes again and again is assuming public health infrastructure will magically appear when we need it. It requires investment. That investment still hasn’t been made.
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And even if we had enough tracers, we don’t have enough tests. States are burning through the supplies they have & struggling to buy more. Even if Congress could pass a bill, the serious contenders fall far, far short of allocating enough funding to ramp up testing.
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