My own answer is no. Guidance is fine. Voluntary self-isolation is fine, and strongly advisable for the more vulnerable. Most of them will do it by choice. But coercion is not fine. There is no moral or principled justification for it. Lord Sumpton
This is good. I'm going to send it to my leftist friends in Austin.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Now the Austin woke infection is spreading to the suburbs Cedar Park council to hold special meeting if enough signatures collected on recall petition The Cedar Park City Council will hold a special meeting on Monday if the required number of signatures are collected on a recall petition against Council Member Tim Kelly, according to an agenda posted on the city’s website.
A group of teachers have started the petition to recall Kelly after a Facebook post he made in July calling for all teachers to return to school or be fired during the coronavirus pandemic.
Petition organizers need to gather 4,112 signatures, which is 10% of the registered voters of Cedar Park, by Monday for the city to be able to put the item on the November ballot.
Organizers did not return a request for comment on Friday about how many signatures they had.
The petition had around 1,449 signatures on Thursday morning, said Michelle Kane, a Leander school district teacher who helped start it.
The city secretary verified about 1,200 signatures on the petition by the Thursday night council meeting, where the petition was discussed.
Kelly was censured on July 30 by the City Council for comments he has made in person and on social media.
Kelly said during the July 30 meeting that his Facebook comment in July was not about teachers in Texas or in the Leander school district, which includes schools in Cedar Park.
The censure was a formal reprimand and did not carry any punishment.
Kelly started arguing with Mayor Corbin Van Arsdale at the Thursday night meeting about whether people should be required to wear masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The argument happened when Van Arsdale was discussing the city’s emergency disaster declaration. https://www.statesman.com/news/20200814/...recall-petition
My own answer is no. Guidance is fine. Voluntary self-isolation is fine, and strongly advisable for the more vulnerable. Most of them will do it by choice. But coercion is not fine. There is no moral or principled justification for it. Lord Sumpton
Cedar Park? Three policemen were shot there the other day and now this? It used to be a sane place. Not now.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
I have three nephews there now, so hope they and spouses are not contributing to this.
My own answer is no. Guidance is fine. Voluntary self-isolation is fine, and strongly advisable for the more vulnerable. Most of them will do it by choice. But coercion is not fine. There is no moral or principled justification for it. Lord Sumpton
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