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   From: Intelligent@savetheworldmsn.com   
      
   Should one have to have a negative Coronavirus test to enter the U.S. by mass   
   transport - planes or boats, or domestically board mass transport - planes or   
   boats?   
      
   It would at least temper the spread.  This is U.S. Customs, and T.S.A., and   
   Cruise   
   Ships.   
      
   Whether roads into States and within large States require a negative test   
   roadblocked by the National Guard or Sheriff, can be left to the discretion of   
   the   
   Governors, depending on the threat assessment of neighboring areas outside the   
   State or within their own large State.   
      
      
   How recently must the test have been?  (Or must it be given multiple times over   
   several days - though even if only give one time this still would temper the   
   spread).   
      
   What if this travel restriction lasts months or years or decades or forever,   
   are   
   we doing this right?   
      
   This should at least reduce foreign born cases by 90%.   
      
      
   Is the Federal Government going to ensure that all would-be travelers have   
   economical access to this test, so as not to at all hamper the economy by this?   
   Some poor guy needs to fly from Los Angeles to San Francisco to interview at a   
   company that needs to hire him.  (He has Obamacare right?)   
      
   There are already fruit fly checkpoints when driving from State to State,   
   making   
   you throw your fruit out when you come in.  On the other hand, the State of   
   Utah   
   said you can't bring Alcohol into the State and this is against the   
   Constitutional   
   Decision that you have a right to freely travel within the 50 States - I would   
   declare with your property.  There is a difference, and transport of biological   
   pathogens is a danger to others.  Being suspected of this without trial may be   
   circumspect to some.  It is similar to the fact that you have a right to drive,   
   but you purportedly do not have a right to drive dangerously, and they require   
   a   
   driver's license to drive and perpetrate that driving is a privilege.  Driving   
   safely is not a privilege, driving safely is a right.  This driver's license is   
   more onerous than this test to travel domestically on an airplane.  One could   
   argue against the driver's license, for while driving is going on 24/7/365 and   
   thus may at first appear insidious, the whole of humanity is yet gaining the   
   benefit of driving at the same time.  A mere single act of endangerment that   
   harmed no one would not be seen as insidious.  Whatever the case, getting a   
   test   
   to stop a potential endemic, is not onerous if it doesn't cost.  As there is no   
   proposed punishment associated with this plan, - you just can't get onto the   
   plane   
   or come into a State, but you can once you get the test.  I doubt anyone would   
   care or challenge it in court if it didn't cost. Why would they.  We don't need   
   the Coronavirus.  They have a problem with the fruitfly checkpoint on Youtube.   
   Possession of alcohol doesn't endanger per se.  Unlike fruit flys or the   
   coronavirus, alcohol's potential for abuse does not equate to certain abuse of   
   alcohol, and its mere possession is not a crime while the possession of fruit   
   flys   
   and the cornavirus is a motiveless crime, of at most negligence, but not even   
   that.  Given there is no motive, and there is no negligence, there is no crime   
   and   
   there is no reason to possess either pathogen.  The Coronavirus is much more   
   insidious than fruit flies.  No one knows or cares about the fruit fly, so it   
   seems like some stupid shit that you can't drive.  They are not educating the   
   public about it, even at the fruit fly checkpoint you are never given a   
   compelling   
   handout.  So prove to me that you don't have fruitflies, or you can't come into   
   the State?  You have to prove your produce doesn't have fruit flies; it was   
   checked out?   
      
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