The proposed revision to the COVID protocol under the Communicable and Certain Other Diseases Act, called WAC 246-100-040, outlines "procedures for isolation or quarantine."

The amendment would grant local health officers at "his other sole discretion" to "issue an emergency detention order causing a person or group of persons to be immediately detained for purposes of isolation or quarantine."

Additionally, the measure would allow law enforcement to assist public health officials in detaining residents who refused the COVID injection.

WAC-246-100-040 states that "a local health officer may invoke the powers of police officers, sheriffs, constables, and all other officers and employees of any political subdivisions within the jurisdiction of the health department to enforce immediately orders given to effectuate the purposes of this section in accordance with the provisions of RCW 43.20.050(4) and 70.05.120."

The "emergency detention order" would allow individuals to be detained "for a period not to exceed ten days."

This alarming measure comes in tandem with Gov. Jay Inslee's (D) effort to hire "strike teams" to run quarantine camps, outlined in the state's governmentjobs.com website, a term that has since been scrubbed from the website sometime after the bulletin was posted in September 2021.