Cops threaten teen with "disorderly conduct" for posting truthfully

[DUmpDiver]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213323785

Cops threaten teen with "disorderly conduct" for posting truthfully that she has COVID-19.

The DU post is a video about a sheriff who threatened a teenager with disorderly conduct citation and arrest for posting about her bout with what doctors thought was COVID-19

I brought this over because of this post:

Sanity Claws (18,537 posts)

2. Marquette County, Wisconsin

I thought people might want to know what police department was so right wing nutty.

And just who elected the "right wing nutty" sheriff? A county that voted +16 Democrat in 2018:

[SVPete]

Some background info on the case, https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/sheriff-threatened-to-arrest-girl-over-coronavirus-photo-lawsuit-says/ . It sounds like the sheriff went overboard, but the girl and her parents were not exactly acting wisely:

The sophomore became ill after she traveled to Disney World and Universal Studios with her Westfield Area High School band class on March 7, at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States.

By March 7th, travel to/from China and China had been shut down, and four days later travel to/from the EU would be shut down. MouseWorld probably should have shut down by then, but did shut down on the 12th. It may be 20-20 hindsight to some degree, but I think it should have been obvious even at the beginning of March that going to a place with large crowds of tourists from all over the world was a very risky thing to do.

[USA4ME]

My wife and I went to DisneyWorld from 3/2-3/3, stayed overnight at a Disney hotel near Epcot. I’d go right now if it was open. Things need to reopen. Restaurants, businesses, beaches, sports teams, amusement parks, the economy in general. Open it up. As with any germ, some people die, others don’t. Living in fear of dying is not living at all.

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