An Israeli broadcaster has aired dramatic video in an eerie dystopian sign of where things are possibly headed in terms of securing quarantined zones in urban areas, and at a moment various governments around the world are militarizing their Covid-19 outbreak response planning. Security forces in Tel Aviv are seen in full protective gear surrounding and then subduing to the ground a man who had allegedly violated his home quarantine and made his way to a nearby train station.
"Israel Police stated that a man, 47, was found on Bograshov St. in Tel Aviv after refusing to stay in quarantine," according to The Jerusalem Post. "He had been involved in an attack on security guards at the city's Hahagana train station."
Dystopian scene of a man in Tel Aviv being arrested for violating his coronavirus quarantine. pic.twitter.com/miEf8XzSDC— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) March 14, 2020
This just as Tel Aviv announced the closures of all restaurants, pubs, threaters and public gathering places - essentially placing the country on lock down. “We are at war with an enemy: the coronavirus,” the prime minister said, “an invisible enemy.”
Once these "emergency measures" are implemented, they will never ever be repealed.https://t.co/cu5EDpQglY— Jack Murphy (@JackMurphyRGR) March 14, 2020
With 'wartime' tactics and rhetoric increasingly being deployed by government leaders in countries where the outbreak is spreading, and military checkpoints and quarantines being set up, further with talk of putting “the collective interest above all” — get ready for more insane Orwellian scenes like the above to possibly come to a neighborhood near you.
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