New York State, what a surprise. I grew up near Syracuse and went to one of the State Univ of NY (SUNY) colleges. I'm so glad I escaped 34 years ago.

https://www.dailywire.com/news...ave-for-thanksgiving

NY State University System Mandates 140,000 Students Test Negative For COVID-19 Before They Can Leave For Thanksgiving

"We’ve required every SUNY campus to offer isolation space"

By Joseph Curl
Nov 24, 2020
DailyWire.com

Students in the State University of New York (SUNY) system will have to take a COVID-19 test — and be negative for the virus — if they want to go home for Thanksgiving.

“The campuses of the State University of New York are among a small number of institutions that are mandating testing as part of its Thanksgiving break plan,” ABC News reported on Monday. “Testing is currently underway across dozens of campuses, with students required to test negative for COVID-19 within 10 days before leaving. Students were encouraged to take their test as close to their departure date as possible, with individual campuses coordinating testing schedules.”

Some 140,000 students in the SUNY system have been ordered to self-administer a saliva swab diagnostic test developed by SUNY Upstate Medical University and Quadrant Biosciences.

“The health experts said you need to wind down your semester after Thanksgiving break and then go all remote because you don’t want people traveling back and forth in the cold months,” SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras told ABC News. “We don’t want to send our students home, possibly infected.”

Malatras last week addressed criticism that the policy “infringes on students’ rights” and could hold students “hostage” in a recent New York Daily News op-ed.

“Students who test negative go home with peace of mind knowing that they are not carrying a virus that could endanger a loved one over the holiday. The mandated test also reassures communities that returning students are not bringing COVID-19 home with them. We know that one or two infected people reentering a community can be enough to spark a major surge in cases,” he wrote.

“Despite widespread support from students, a handful of people have criticized these measures — some with a misunderstanding of what the policy is, or worse, baseless accusations designed solely to manufacture controversy. Some argued that the policy infringes on students’ rights, while others went even further and accused SUNY of attempting to ‘imprison students’ or ‘hold students hostage.’ None of it is true,” Malatras added.

“As is already required by state health law, any person who tests positive for COVID-19 must isolate for 14 days. Campuses must work with local health departments on how and where students will isolate. But given that some students may not have alternatives over the Thanksgiving holiday, we’ve required every SUNY campus to offer isolation space, and staff will remain on location to attend to any needs. We have an obligation to help those students in need,” he wrote.

Malatras said the university system has been among the “most aggressive” in the nation in dealing with COVID-19. “I felt that we needed to bring a little more rigor to the process, and more uniformity to the process,” Malatras said. “Every campus dealt with infractions against their codes of conduct differently. But what you saw there was an uneven application was leading to bad results on some of our campuses.”

Wow, SUNY really needs to be told to go fuck themselves.

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
NY State University System Mandates 140,000 Students Test Negative For COVID-19 Before They Can Leave For Thanksgiving

I'd tell 'em to put it where the sun don't shine.

Cuomo Calls Supreme Court Ruling On Churches 'Irrelevant'

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...us-services-new-york

Update (1338ET): Responding to the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision to block New York from setting capacity limits at houses of worship during the pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said the ruling was 'irrelevant."

During a Thanksgiving Day conference call with reporters, Cuomo said the order was moot because the religious institutions involved in the lawsuit are no longer in designated red and orange zones in Queens and Brooklyn - therefore the restrictions, capping attendance at houses of worship - no longer apply.

"The Supreme Court made a ruling. It’s more illustrative of the Supreme Court than anything else," said Cuomo (via the NY Post), while knocking the Supreme Court's (arguably) conservative bias given the addition of Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

"It’s irrelevant of any practical impact because of the zone they were talking about is moot. It expired last week," he added. "It doesn’t have any practical effect."

"The lawsuit was about the Brooklyn zone. The Brooklyn zone no longer exists as a red zone. That’s muted. So that restriction is no longer in effect. That situation just doesn’t exist because those restrictions are gone."

he plaintiffs were likely to prevail on First Amendment ground, the court ruled.

Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Donald Trump appointee, wrote a separate opinion siding with the conservative majority, saying churches and synagogues were treated differently than commercial institutions by the state.

“It is time — past time — to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues, and mosques,” Gorsuch argued.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, also concurred, noting that temporary injunctions were warranted but that the Nov. 25 decisions were not final.

Bush appointee John Roberts, the court’s chief justice, said in a dissenting opinion that “there is simply no need” to grant injunctive relief.

“Numerical capacity limits of 10 and 25 people, depending on the applicable zone, do seem unduly restrictive. And it may well be that such restrictions violate the Free Exercise Clause.

It is not necessary, however, for us to rule on that serious and difficult question at this time,” he alleged.

Barack Obama appointees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined with Bill Clinton appointee Stephen Breyer in a separate dissenting opinion.

Breyer wrote that he also believed there is not a need to issue injunctive relief because the parts of Brooklyn and Queens where the Diocese’s churches and the two applicant synagogues are located are no longer within red or orange zones. Cuomo, whose office didn’t respond to a request for comment, had made that argument last week in a court filing.

“The applicants point out that the State might reimpose the red or orange zone restrictions in the future. But, were that to occur, they could refile their applications here, by letter brief if necessary. And this Court, if necessary, could then decide the matter in a day or two, perhaps even in a few hours,” Breyer wrote.

“Why should this Court act now without argument or full consideration in the ordinary course (and prior to the Court of Appeals’ consideration of the matter) when there is no legal or practical need for it to do so? I have found no convincing answer to that question.”

Finally, we note that the court earlier this year declined to lift pandemic restrictions in California and Nevada when the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was on the court.

Cuomo needs to be deemed irrelevant. He and a lot of other Dem. governors. Their true colors are now transparent for all to see.

Jim

“When liberal Ruth buzzy Ginsberg was on the Court”.....

That was then. This is now.

The problem is that they keep getting elected.

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Originally posted by Jimbo54:
Cuomo needs to be deemed irrelevant. He and a lot of other Dem. governors. Their true colors are now transparent for all to see.

Jim

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sigmund:
NY State University System Mandates 140,000 Students Test Negative For COVID-19 Before They Can Leave For Thanksgiving

They need to be told to F themselves. Any student and/or parent that lets these gestapo type actions control them are idiots.

So.... If you are paying tuition to SUNY while your kid is being held hostage, wouldnt that be considered extortion?
Yeah, everybody just keep on paying these Colleges to indoctrinate your children on socialism and PC culture. Then after graduation, they can help ship you off to a re-education camp!

How would they stop the students from leaving? How would they know if they were even on campus?

In regards to Cuomo - don't worry - the idiots in NY(C) will keep re-electing him. (unless he decides to run for Congress in 2 years).

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How would they stop the students from leaving?

They expel them if they haven't submitted a test and don't check in with their Dorm-nazi RA.

These kids are enrolled in one of the most liberal college institutions in the country if not the world. I'm sure they are proud and happy to be compliant as are the parents. Besides they live a virtual life were everything is done on a screen including Thanksgiving. The new normal.

These kids would march to the showers if they were told to tomorrow.

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These kids are enrolled in one of the most liberal college institutions in the country if not the world. I'm sure they are proud and happy to be compliant as are the parents. Besides they live a virtual life were everything is done on a screen including Thanksgiving. The new normal.

These kids would march to the showers if they were told to tomorrow.

I don’t think they would themselves March to the showers, but they would inform on their neighbors, drive the train and pull the lever on others.

Latest Michigan development:
Gov. Whitmer the legislature to pass a 100 million dollar stimulus package when they reconvene December first.
Oh... and a mandatory mask in public order too.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Latest Michigan development:
Gov. Whitmer the legislature to pass a 100 million dollar stimulus package when they reconvene December first.
Oh... and a mandatory mask in public order too.

Where's she going to get the money? The road fund?

Protest in Silverton, OR Oregon OSHA inspector's house today.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...tnGZ?ocid=uxbndlbing

This cocksucker fined a gym in Salem for remaining open.

No violence at this protest whatsoever.

Watching the movie “The Siege”. Seems to be some familiar undertones.......

They need a 140,000 votes ......I mean cases ? Put the democrats in charge , they'll get those numbers for them.

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These kids would march to the showers if they were told to tomorrow.

That pretty much sums up a large percentage of the population these days. They have shown how eager they are to blindly follow their overlords orders.

NYC Bar Owner Who Defied Coronavirus Restrictions Arrested

The New York City sheriff's office says a bar owner who was providing indoor service in defiance of coronavirus restrictions has been arrested.

By Associated Press, Wire Service Content Dec. 2, 2020, at 4:08 p.m.

NEW YORK (AP) — AN owner of a New York City bar that was providing indoor service in defiance of coronavirus restrictions was arrested after a sting in which plainclothes officers went inside and ordered food and beverages, the city sheriff's office said.

Protesters shouted as deputies arrested Danny Presti, the co-owner of Mac's Public House on Staten Island, on Tuesday.

The tavern is in an area designated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as an orange zone because of spiking COVID-19 rates and was not supposed to be serving customers indoors. But the owners had declared the bar an “autonomous zone,” a nod to protesters who claimed control over a Seattle neighborhood in June.

The bar has been fined thousands of dollars as it continued to serve patrons inside and to operate past the 10 p.m. curfew for restaurant service that Cuomo imposed citywide.

According to a release from Sheriff Joseph Fucito, plainclothes deputies went inside Tuesday and ordered food in exchange for a mandatory $40 “donation." Uniformed deputies went in then and issued tickets for state and city violations.

Presti, 34, was uncooperative and was charged with obstruction of governmental administration in addition to the charges stemming from unauthorized food and beverage service, the sheriff said.

Lou Gelormino, an attorney who represents the tavern in its battle against the state and city, was there during the bust and was also ticketed. Gelormino told the Staten Island Advance that Presti was arrested because he didn't want to leave his business “and at that point … they considered it trespassing.”

Another attorney for the bar, Mark Fonte, told the newspaper, “These sheriff’s officers are ‘wannabe’ cops. This is what happens when little people get a little power.”

State Sen. Andrew Lanza, a Republican, sought to calm the dozens of tavern supporters who jeered as Presti was led away in handcuffs. Lanza said the bar owner should not have been arrested but added, “We respect law enforcement on Staten Island like no other borough."

Presti owns Mac's Public House with Keith McAlarney, who was not present during the enforcement action Tuesday.