Fined $4000 for flying 75hrs after Covid Test (vs. 72hrs)
Jan 24, 2021, 7:06 am
#31
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There are countless people who never become victims when requirements such as this are strictly enforced. Some might feel differently about this had the passenger infected 20 others who each infected 20 others and so on. And then 10 of those people had died in a superspreader event.
The point is not to catch people for having done this, but to deter them in the first place.
The point is not to catch people for having done this, but to deter them in the first place.
Jan 24, 2021, 7:25 am
#32
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Yes, anyone can claim that their intent was good rather than bad, but that's why we have courts and judges.
A fine in that range for an international travel violation that comes with heightened risk of endangering the public health doesn't seem excessive to me, but I would hope that if this fine is appealed that a unintentional, slim error would result in a substantial reduction in the fine. I would not want to see such a substantial reduction in the fine that it interrupts the following message: "don't push your luck".
Last edited by LAX_Esq; Jan 24, 2021 at 7:32 am