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STOP CDC Proposed Rule for Forced Detention, Isolation, Vaccination and Quarantine

By NVIC Advocacy Staff
Published October 11, 2016 in Government


NVIC is issuing a federal action alert to STOP CDC's Proposed Rule for Forced Detention, Isolation, Vaccination and Quarantine

Your action is urgently needed this week to help stop an extremely threatening and overreaching proposed Centers for Disease Control (CDC) rule granting police powers to forcibly detain, isolate, vaccinate and quarantine citizens.  This is very serious and we need you to contact your U.S. legislators and ask them to demand that the CDC withdraw this proposed rule. The Notice of Public Rulemaking (NPRM) is published in the Federal Register.

NVIC CDC NPRM public comment
 
Click here to view NVIC's public comment on the CDC's Notice of Public Rulemaking (NPRM)

The new CDC FAQ about the NPRM discusses some, but not all, of the most serious concerns that the public has about different provisions within the NPRM that allows federal health officials to take citizens into custody and involuntarily quarantining them for having common infectious disease symptoms such as a skin rash, coughing and mild fever. This NPRM is a clear threat to travel within the U.S. by airplane, ship, bus and train for simply appearing “unwell” or having been in contact with someone who is “unwell.”

To familiarize yourself with the important details of the CDC’s proposal, read (or watch a video) of this very important referenced commentary on this NPRM by Co-founder and President of NVIC Barbara Loe Fisher. NVIC also issued a press release that summarizes the problems with NPRM and created additional resources on government police powers.

ACTION NEEDED:

  1. Contact your U.S. Congressional Representative and both of your U.S. Senators Representatives and ask them to stop this outrageous federal overreach and unnecessary expansion of police powers by demanding the CDC withdraw the proposed rule.  To find who represents you in the U.S. Congress and U.S. Senate, register/login to the NVIC Advocacy Portal, click on the “national” tab on the top of your home page, and the names of your personal U.S. Congressional Representative and your two U.S. Senators will be listed on the right hand side.   Click on their names to be linked to all of their contact information. Send your letter by email, fax or regular mail then follow-up with a personal phone call expressing your concerns. You should be contacting all three of your U.S. legislators.
  2. Submit public comments with your concerns directly to the CDC  on the proposed rule by Oct. 14, 2016 11:59 pm EST.
  3. Share this alert with family and friends by forwarding this email or sending them to http://NVICAdvocacy.org on our National page, our note on National Vaccine Information Center Facebook, or this webpage.
  4. Register with the NVIC Advocacy Portal to view and receive updates on this NPRM and actions in your state impacting vaccine freedom of choice. The portal is offered as a free public service. By registering you can quickly find out who your legislators are and easily contact them.

NVIC works diligently to prepare and disseminate our legislative advocacy action alerts and supporting materials.  We request that organizations and members of the public forward our alerts in their original form to assure consistent and accurate messaging and effective action. Please acknowledge NVIC as originators of this work when forwarding to members of the public and like-minded organizations.

Below is a sample letter for use in this effort. Remember, legislators read letters that are original and the sample is provided as guideline for the public's use.



Date

The Honorable FIRSTNAME LASTNAME
STREET ADDRESS
Washington, D.C. 20515

RE: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) by CDC and HHS Concerning Quarantine
CDC Docket No. CDC-2016-0068
Dear Representative or Senator LASTNAME,

As a constituent of yours, I am writing to you for your assistance.  I have serious concerns about an overreaching proposed HHS/CDC Rule that would expand police powers to forcibly detain, isolate, vaccinate and quarantine citizens. This Notice of Proposed Rule Making was published in the Federal Register on 8/15/16 and is currently open for public comment until 10/14/16.

I am asking you to demand that the CDC withdraw this proposed rule for the following reasons:

  • The proposed rule is a violation of civil liberties.  U.S. health officials could hold a person in custody for 72 hours without the right to contact an attorney to appeal the detention. Detainees could be asked to sign a contract with the CDC that gives consent to the “public health measures” being applied to the adult or a minor child, which may include “quarantine, isolation, conditional release, medical examination, hospitalization, vaccination, and treatment.” The proposed rule states that “the individual’s consent shall not be considered a prerequisite to any exercise of any authority” by the CDC. After release, the person can be electronically tracked and monitored, including by electronic tracking devices attached to the body.
  • The proposed rule is a clear case of federal government overreach.  Federal and state laws are already in place to address the control of outbreaks of serious communicable diseases.  When similar rules have been proposed in the past they have been withdrawn over concerns of civil rights violations and the cost to implement. 
  • The proposed rule has very subjective and unreasonably broad definitions of illness. The proposed rule defines a potentially “ill” person deserving of special government scrutiny to be someone with “areas of the skin with multiple red bumps, red, flat spots or blister like bumps filled with fluid or pus that are intact or partially crusted over,” warning ominously that “the presence of skin rash, along with fever, may indicate that the traveler has measles, rubella (German measles), varicella (chickenpox) meningococcal disease or smallpox.”  These definitions (on pages 54239-40) are very subjective and will open the door for travelers to be detained for something as simple as a skin rash while suffering from a bad sunburn, acne, rosacea, eczema, psoriasis, the hives, or severe allergies and a mild fever that could be due to an old fashioned cold. Measles is not Ebola and chickenpox is not smallpox. 

    Sincerely,

    YOUR NAME
    YOUR STREET ADDRESS
    YOUR CITY, STATE, ZIP
    YOUR EMAIL
    YOUR PHONE

     
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