"Medical Concentration Camp" Bill A416 in NY is back, but now the government is trying to circumvent legislative process using the DOH as cover. Why?

Feb 6, 2022

Back in late December 2021, N.Y. Assembly bill A416 was withdrawn when the bill’s sponsor - Assemblyman N. Nick Perry - tweeted that he would be removing it because “Conspiracy theorists and those who spread misinformation online, are once again trolling social media, posting concocted stories about A416.”

Like what we have seen in China and Australia recently - where the military was used to lock-up Covid positive cases in quarantine camps - bill A416 proposed allowing the state of New York - without due process - to forcibly detain someone carrying or suspected to be carrying a contagious disease — or someone they came into contact with — in a “medical facility or other appropriate facility.” In Australia many bragged and cheered for the building of these detention camps, as Queensland’s Prime Minister Annastacia Palaszczuk tweeted here. But in New York, the public pushback was strong enough to get the bill pulled from consideration.

A month later, the same set of regulations are back, but now governor Kathy Hochul and company are trying to circumvent the legislative process and usher these draconian measures through the Department of Health without having the laws go through the proper law-making process. This is reminiscent of what the Biden Administration tried to do with OSHA and the vaccine mandates that was eventually struck down by SCOTUS.

Regulations like this are supposed to be minor rules used to implement laws that were passed by the normal legislative process. But this is an attempt to clearly give government entirely new powers through a regulatory back door after the original set of rules failed to pass through the proper channels.

The new regulations would also give the governor permanent power to mandate masks, expands what workers the governor can mandate vaccines for, along with the imprisoning of “public health risks” without due process.

The proposed NYDOH amendments can be found here. And the one specific to this - Amendment of Part 2, Section 405.3 and Addition of Section 58-1.14 to Title 10 NYCRR (Investigation of Communicable Disease; Isolation and Quarantine) - can be found here.

We put in a call and email to the governor’s office for comment but have yet to receive a reply.

What can be done?

If you consider yourself a citizen who cares about liberty-minded issues like this, it is imperative to be active in participatory government. Start by calling the Governor and letting her know that you are opposed to the NYDOH’s proposed regulations and you are aware and against the effort to bypass our legislative process by trying to sneak this through as a regulation instead of as an Assembly law. 

Governor Kathy Hochul (518) 474-8390,  (212) 681-4580, Hochul only takes voice mail.

Fill out the online contact form here.

Also you can call the leaders of the legislature and ask them if they support the Governor bypassing the legislative process, with laws that clearly violate the Bill of Rights.

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins 

Albany: Telephone (518) 455-2585, (518) 455-2715

District: Telephone (914) 423-4031

scousins@nysenate.gov

Speaker of the Assembly Carl Heastie 

Albany: (518) 455-3791, District: (718) 654-6539

speaker@nyassembly.gov

Send Comments: The regulation is now in a public comment period. Please send comments. They will become part of the official record and the NYS Department of Health is required by law to respond to them.

New York State Department of Health
Bureau of Program Counsel, Regulatory Affairs Unit

Re: Amendment of Part 2, Section 405.3 and Addition of Section 58-1.14 to Title 10 NYCRR (Investigation of Communicable Disease; Isolation and Quarantine)
Corning Tower, Empire State Plaza, Rm. 2438
Albany, New York 12237-0031
Phone: (518) 473-7488

regsqna@health.ny.gov
Attention: Katherine Ceroalo