Forced quarantines, vaccinations among pandemic powers provinces could employ
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
No public gatherings… forced medical exams… forced vaccinations and quarantine… these powers can be enacted now at the stroke of a pen due to recent updates to public health acts. With both the regular flu season around the corner (which as a matter of course kills more people yearly than the extremely weak H1N1 swine flu strain) and a tottering socioeconomic situation, this sounds like a recipe for locking down the population. Feel secure yet? Both the US Military and the Canadian Forces Reserves have been practicing for just such a scenario – these are the powers enabled by the WHO going to pandemic level six in mid-June. Now, unelected medical health officers working under UN guidelines control your future. Let’s hope they’re incorruptible.
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Chinta Puxley, The Canadian Press
August 2, 2009
Many public health acts now include measures such as quarantining sick people in homes, shutting down schools
A resurgence of swine flu anticipated this fall could test new provincial powers that include being able to place sick people under quarantine in their homes and shut down schools.
Many provinces have passed updated public health acts in recent years to give them the right to do whatever a medical health officer feels is necessary to curb the spread of a communicable disease.