QUINTA VIGIA WARNS: “SOMEONE IS GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE THAT RESPONSIBILITY”

Tobi Hughes·
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The announcement that the Ponta Delgada Court, in the Azores, granted a request for immediate release made by a plaintiff, against the Azorean Government’s quarantine in hotels, caused a natural uproar yesterday afternoon in Quinta Vigia. “Madeira is not going to change anything”, says a source from the Presidency of the Regional Government, in the headline of this Sunday’s printed edition of JM.

If the Madeiran Executive is notified of a similar decision, “someone will have to take that responsibility”. The warning is clear in the face of a warning cry: “We do not have the capacity to control and to guarantee the safety of our population.”
There is a “false idea” that the pandemic “is under control”. That is the reason for the “great concern with what may come”. The JM source in the Presidency of the Regional Government recalls that “it would have been catastrophic for Madeira” if the quarantines had not been imposed on the arrival of passengers.
This “prophylactic measure” is the reason that allows the Autonomous Region of Madeira to remain, until yesterday, the only Portuguese region without any record of deaths associated with Covid-19, in addition to boasting an insignificant number of active cases (yesterday afternoon it was 31). “Quarantine was the best that was done in the face of the seriousness of the situation. This is not a prison chain and we cannot be playing with the situation. ”
There is also a final message: “Also through this situation, the Madeirans and Portosantenses must understand why Madeira needs to have more Autonomy”.

Taken from JM

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7 Responses

  1. Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that “everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person”. Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights goes further and calls for persons detained to have the right to challenge their detention, providing at article 5.4:

    Everyone who is deprived of his liberty by arrest or detention shall be entitled to take proceedings by which the lawfulness of his detention shall be decided speedily by a court and his release ordered if the detention is not lawful.

    Whilst this may be legally correct. Is it wise in the face of a deadly viral infection.
    In my opinion Madeira has acted correctly.

  2. After the cancellation of quarantine by the Portuguese government, what is happening in Madeira is simply an act of abuse of authority by the local authorities. If Madeira is part of Portugal, then its government must comply with national laws, otherwise Albuquerque will soon become Dimon. I hope that the court will soon give a full assessment of the situation.

    1. This was not a portuguese government decision, it was a judicial decision. They are separate powers.

  3. Like Richard I sympathise with Madeira’s problem and the potential for the steps taken to date to minimise the outbreak on the island.
    I am not familiar with Portugal’s national law and how it has incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights.
    In the UK the right to respect for private and family life is subject to the qualification that a public authority can interfere with it if it is in accordance with the law and necessary in a democratic society…for the protection of health.
    It would be good to think that a similar scope is available to the Regional Government.

  4. Instead of running to the courts that “plaintiff” should have complained to the UN because all its member states failed to understand what ABC WARFARE means (“B” standing for BIOLOGICAL) and thus were unable to react appropriately to the potential danger of accidental or intentional spread of a virus such as corona or other. Avoidable shortages occurred all over the world. Let’s hope that face masks, personal protective equipment, beds, ventilators, etc. – all of which are penny items – will be stored in warehouses and ready for the next pandemic.

  5. In the UK 33,000 have died from the virus. Probably 1000s more because death certificates do not always show the prime cause of death especially for the elderly who may have already been very ill.

    So what price their human rights? Killed by a virus from China and imported here by UK visitors and returnees.

    The right to life is superior to any other right. Of course lawyers and activists enjoy all this. But their rights contradict the right we all have to life !

    So good on Madeira. As the UK is starting to relax lockdown – we already see selfish morons putting the rest of us at risk. The UK could learn lot from Madeira’s prompt handling of the pandemic.

    1. I have heard on the qt that some people who have died in hospital have had covid-19 put on the death certificate even though they did NOT have the virus. This came from a hospital doctor!

      On the face of it Madeira has done a good job in isolating the island and people keep slagging off the UK government for being slow BUT their aim was to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed. We will not beat this virus for many years, possibly decades. A second wave will come and it is likely that the UK will come out ready and prepared for it. The second wave could hit Madeira very very badly due to a lack of immunity. I am not saying it will happen but it is a potential scenario. Be prepared.

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