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Continued T&T Lockdown
5 years ago
General
So yeah, just an update from my last journal here, our Prime Minister addressed the nation on Saturday 12-SEP-2020 to basically tell us that the partial lockdown will continue to be in effect for another month, until 11-OCT-2020. So the measures that persons/business places were required to practice from before will remain in effect.
Of course, the "BIG" thing now is that not all persons are complying with the Public Health Laws that the Ministry of Health published and some persons are trying to find loopholes in said laws.
Most recently was a pool party that took place in an apartment complex, that clearly had more than five (5) persons. The current COVID-19 public health laws forbids groups of five (5) persons and more gathering in any public space, however, the problem was that this pool party took place in an apartment complex, which isn't classified as "public space". The Police were called but all they could do was just advise said group of persons that they had to disperse. Of course, this raised the proverbial hornet's nest in our nation as the population is citing that the Police are giving special treatment to this group of persons, as opposed to other situations where persons, who were partying at other venues, were arrested and charged for breaking the Public Health Laws.
The only difference, was that these other situation took place in public spaces. So basically, what has the population so angry with the Police is that the appearance of special treatment, but they (Police) say that based on the current Public Health Laws, there's a fine line between a public space VS a private space and so they have no authority to arrest persons gathering in a PRIVATE space.
The head of the Police Unit went further on to say, "As it pertains to private places, as the Prime Minister rightly stated, persons were being irresponsible, but as police, we cannot police or arrest people for stupidity. It puts us in a very difficult situation to lockdown the country to prevent the virus from spreading by making sure persons adhere to the restrictions."
So the MOST that Police can do tell citizens, under the existing laws, to ensure that persons act more responsibly and mature.
But we all know that that won't be the case as persons will continue to flout the law as long as they can find a loophole in it.
Dunno if other T&T furs agree with me, but feel free to comment and share your thoughts.
Of course, the "BIG" thing now is that not all persons are complying with the Public Health Laws that the Ministry of Health published and some persons are trying to find loopholes in said laws.
Most recently was a pool party that took place in an apartment complex, that clearly had more than five (5) persons. The current COVID-19 public health laws forbids groups of five (5) persons and more gathering in any public space, however, the problem was that this pool party took place in an apartment complex, which isn't classified as "public space". The Police were called but all they could do was just advise said group of persons that they had to disperse. Of course, this raised the proverbial hornet's nest in our nation as the population is citing that the Police are giving special treatment to this group of persons, as opposed to other situations where persons, who were partying at other venues, were arrested and charged for breaking the Public Health Laws.
The only difference, was that these other situation took place in public spaces. So basically, what has the population so angry with the Police is that the appearance of special treatment, but they (Police) say that based on the current Public Health Laws, there's a fine line between a public space VS a private space and so they have no authority to arrest persons gathering in a PRIVATE space.
The head of the Police Unit went further on to say, "As it pertains to private places, as the Prime Minister rightly stated, persons were being irresponsible, but as police, we cannot police or arrest people for stupidity. It puts us in a very difficult situation to lockdown the country to prevent the virus from spreading by making sure persons adhere to the restrictions."
So the MOST that Police can do tell citizens, under the existing laws, to ensure that persons act more responsibly and mature.
But we all know that that won't be the case as persons will continue to flout the law as long as they can find a loophole in it.
Dunno if other T&T furs agree with me, but feel free to comment and share your thoughts.
