☢ On Friday, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed Executive Order 83, which authorizes National Guard and State Guard troops to break into peoples’ homes, kidnap them at gunpoint, and take them to covid internment camps, all without any due process or respect for civil rights.
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Just read the entire EO. This is a sensationalized tweet by American Honey. While the EO reads like people are dropping dead of COVID and the situation is dire, I saw nothing to support the claims about NG taking people at gun point.
Exactly, I came here to say just that. I read the EO, especially Section 8 which discusses the National Guard. The NG is included purely for one thing, to augment medical support where no medical care is available IN AN EMERGENCY. NG units have some pretty good emergency response experience and can deal with basic medical emergencies.
Further, my governor, Bill Lee, is a good man and I still trust him. That is a rare statement for a politician, but he's one of the good guys.
This is Mike Adam's fear porn at its best. He takes a partial truth and then blows it out of proportion. I followed him years ago, but he's goes off the far right end at times even though he has good health info on things.
**Read it again. In section 5 they lump mental health and Covid together.**and authorize student nurses to staff these facilities.
"related rules are hereby suspended to the extent necessary to authorize professionals ..., to perform tasks outside of their licensed scope of practice or if such tasks are performed in an inpatient psychiatric facility, in a behavioral health residential facility, or by a behavioral health crisis services provider licensed under Title 33 pursuant to a facility or provider-specific, COVID-19-related plan of delegation that has been submitted by the facility's or provider's chief medical or chief executive officer and jointly approved by the Commissioner of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services or the Commissioner's designee and the Commissioner of Health or the Commissioner's designee."
In section 11 they set up funding for "skilled Covid Nursing facilities"
In section 13 they suspend certification requirements
"to the extent necessary to allow hospitals, nursing homes, and home health agencies that would otherwise be subject to certificate of need requirements to temporarily increase their number of licensed hospital beds at any location or temporarily"
In section 14 Telephone assessments for involuntary commitment cases are permitted. (see section 5 lumping mental health and covid together)
In section 16, the director can monitor these facilities remotely without any kind of on site inspections.
In section 18
"Temporary quarantine and isolation facilities may b constructed"
19 and 20 any kind of required inspections based on complaints etc. are suspended.