[jimmydorry]

I'm going to assume that you are discussing in good faith, as per the HackerNews commenting guidelines, and did not deliberately pick a specific CDC campaign as a strawman.

The CDC's campaign to control mosquitos and eradicate malaria in the US probably does not limit how people are living their lives, but ordering an immediate nationwide halt on evictions of any renter for nonpayment of rent would be an example of applying limitations on people.

[Brybry]

To be fair, the national eviction moratorium was ruled illegal/not a power that the CDC has.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/21a23_ap6c.pdf

[jtbayly]

Precisely. The group that is willing to illegally order you to do things they have no right to order is also tracking you. But no biggie.

[drekk]

Say the thing they ordered. They didn't allow evicting millions of Americans during winter in a global pandemic. They're also tracking people to make sure lockdown guidelines were followed. Of course Americans could not follow a guideline to save their lives, and now over a million preventably dead Americans get to be summarily forgotten because the real victim was your ability to go to a bar or concert when hospitals were renting refrigerated trucks to hold bodies.

But no biggie.

[mullingitover]

I find it pretty encouraging that of all the possible examples of the CDC using its statutory authority you could think of, the example that comes to mind is that they took away a person's freedom to be evicted.