New York City residents who break social distancing rules will be subject to fines up to $500

[PoliticAverse]

New York City residents who break social distancing rules will be subject to fines up to $500, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday.

As New York battles the spread of coronavirus, the state has ordered nonessential businesses to shut down, banned gatherings of any size and mandated that people stay six feet away from each other. Not everyone has listened.

Fines will be a last resort, but de Blasio has authorized police officers to give them out to people who are ordered to disperse but fail to do so.

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De Blasio said fines of $250 to $500 would begin for people found congregating in public spaces who fail to disperse when ordered, or return after officers have told them to move along.

Read the rest at: https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/03/29/new-yorkers-who-break-social-distancing-rules-will-now-face-fines-up-to-500-1269545

[DanieRains]

1. And Arrest The Church Goers In Louisiana And Preacher

Freedom of religion does not cover infecting thousands of their countrymen because they are drooling idiots for Jeebus and follow a con man preacher.

Reckless Endangerment.

[Cha]

4. Yeah those idiots. A lot of chuches are

having online services now.. so my sister told me.

[MichMan]

11. Pretty certain DeBlasio can't order arrests of people in Louisiana

[flamingdem]

2. What about on the subway?

Nearly impossible to avoid brushing by bodies.

[BigmanPigman]

6. That is when the trains are full of passengers.

People are staying home so they aren't packing the subways now.

[Cha]

3. It's $5000 here on Kauai if we break

compliance rules. Just going out to buy groceries and meds.. we can run or walk solitarily, though, for exercise!

[BigmanPigman]

7. Good. We need strict measures for this to sink into thick skulls.

This isn't a fun game, this is life and death.

Jonathan Pie had a good rant about this...people in England are complaining about a "police state".

[Cha]

8. We have police checkpoints, too.. I

approve of anything they can do to contain this CV.

I was on the street today going to the bus to hop on and get groceries.. hardly anybody around. The bus drivers wearing masks and gloves and the bus rides are Free now.

And, all the workers in the health store I go to in another town were all wearing mandatory masks and gloves as of today.

Thanks for Jonathan Pie, BP!

This goes right along with that..

Link to tweet

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213193524

[BigmanPigman]

9. The English Health Minister also tested positive.

[Cha]

10. Oh dear.. that's terrible.. was he another "hand shaker"?

So much for Boris's stupidity like trump.

[fierywoman]

5. Today I just heard a woman in France explaining that they have to have a government

form(paper) where they explain what they're doing outside and they have to have it on them... If things aren't proper, the first time it's 100 euro fine -- the third time it's 3,000 euros.