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The wording on the petition is not the best because it makes it sound like the sole issue is tracing and testing. But for me, I’m more concerned about the vagueness of the wording. Even if you think tracing and testing is a good thing, the vagueness should give you pause; it will be easily abused by those in power. HR 6666 allows for: • Forced entrance into home without a warrant based on suspected exposure • Indefinite quarantine based on suspected exposure with no test needed • Unlimited number of times that you can be quarantined • There is no definition of “contact,” so they can lock you up if your cell phone indicates that you passed someone infected on the other side of a major highway • Due to HIPAA privacy laws, they can’t tell you who may have infected you, so “exposure” can be easily fabricated • No exemption of people who have antibodies to COVID-19 • While this bill does not require people to be removed from their homes for quarantine, it doesn’t prohibit it either. There will be a lot of people who will be abused in quarantine facilities, just like my dad was

To me, HR 6666 feels like a pretense to lock-up political dissidents.