CDC declares a federal moratorium on evictions [pdf]

If federal CDC has authority over state evictions, does federal also have authority over state lockdowns, reopening and choice of essential business?

They can&#x27;t stop the nearly 200K mostly unnecessary deaths due Covid-19 and the shambolic response which is their actual job but now want to regulate the rental market ???.<p>How about mandating masks bloody idiots.

&gt; I further understand that fees, penalties, or interest for not paying rent or making a housing payment on time as required by my tenancy, lease agreement, or similar contract may still be charged or collected.<p>This part seems like an odd choice, if we&#x27;re already amending the rental contract in terms of timeliness, it seems odd to double-down on late-payment fees.

Is this a new order, or did the CDC declare this sometime within the past few days to past few weeks?<p>Surprisingly, the PDF contains no date, beyond OMB expiration date.

It seems like a right measure, but it also seem like something a federal agency should not be able to do. At most it should be a recommendation to states.

This was from two weeks ago, right? I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;m following the significance today.

What about taxes and utilities that landlord has to pay to city&#x2F;county?

How does the CDC have any authority over real estate law? This is way beyond its legal statute and not a good thing regardless of your feelings on the matter. This should be unconstitutional if it&#x27;s not already.

Who&#x27;s going to declare a &quot;moratorium&quot; on mortgage payments though? Last I checked it&#x27;s still due every month.

Good.

This is absolutely absurd. And the fact that they justify it as to stop spread of COVID-19 is even more bizarre.<p>The government imposed this mortality-inducing and economically destructive lockdown, if they want to prevent evictions they need to pay the landlords what they’re owed. Reparations.<p>—-<p>While I’m at it, a reminder that with COVID-19 we abandoned the critical pathological vs physiological distinction and define COVID-19 as “rt-PCR-positive for SARS-2” in the absence of any symptoms, which is just wrong. “Asymptomatic COVID-19” is an oxymoron, no symptoms means no disease. “Pre-symptomatic COVID-19” makes sense, but not asymptomatic.<p>You can have HIV without AIDS. Your skin can be colonized with C. Acnes without acne. But if you are PCR-positive for SARS-CoV-2 they call that COVID-19.<p>The above absurd definition of COVID-19 is how the death count is being inflated. Died of a motorcycle accident in Orange County? COVID death. 2 month old infant born with intestines outside of body? COVID death. George Floyd? COVID death (he was PCR-positive). All 3 of those examples are real examples, not ones I made up.<p>We’re going to look back at this as the first example of <i>worldwide</i> collective delusion (except Sweden). Dutch tulip bulb mania across the entire globe.