Ankle monitors, house arrest, & armed guards: Covid-19 enforcement measures ramp up even as lockdowns wind down

A Kentucky couple

A Kentucky couple have become the latest victims of heavy-handed pandemic enforcement, being outfitted with ankle monitors after refusing to sign a self-quarantine order on testing positive for Covid-19. They’re far from alone.

Elizabeth and Isaiah Linscott were fitted with ankle monitors by Hardin County health authorities last week, as governments take a more intrusive approach to controlling the coronavirus pandemic. The couple had refused to sign an “isolation order,” insisting their problem was not with the idea of self-quarantine but with the way the order was phrased.

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