Contact Tracing Is A Fiasco Rejected By
Most Americans
The Federalist,
by
David Marcus
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
6/16/2020 12:30:45 PM
There were supposed to be armies. Grand armies of contact tracers crisscrossing every county in the country on the hunt for the Chinese virus. This was the key we were told to a safe reopening, they have been telling us this since back when they still told us not to wear masks. Soldiers in this army would interview anyone who tested positive and track down the people they spent time with.
Supposedly serious people with TV shows and everything said with straight faces that we might need 100,000 contact tracers, maybe more, maybe everyone needs to be a contact tracer.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
IowaDad 6/16/2020 12:37:41 PM (No. 446365)
"Most Americans" don't benefit from contact tracing. But if you caught COVID-19 from an acquaintance that you didn't need to meet, and you infected your next door neighbor all because of absence of contact tracing, you'd be pretty mad. So would your neighbor.
Contact tracing has been -- and will continue to be -- an essential public health tool. So don't knock it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 6/16/2020 12:48:18 PM (No. 446371)
The problem these days is not knowing our neighbors, not keeping away from them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/16/2020 12:52:09 PM (No. 446374)
In the dense inner cities contact tracing is but a joke. Anyone who has spend any time at all in New York City or other large inner city “communities” would know that it would be impossible for most residents to know or remember everyone who they reacted with, or came in contact with for the last two weeks, unless their contacts were effectively cloistered with them in an apartment or house.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rather Read 6/16/2020 1:06:18 PM (No. 446394)
"until there is a vaccine we have to accept risk, understand that lives will be lost, and get the country back to normal" I said this at the very beginning and got roasted by my very progressive boss. She is of the if it saves one life school and ironically she is fanatically pro-abortion.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
padiva 6/16/2020 1:15:29 PM (No. 446399)
The times are not ready for the mark (chip) of the beast.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
web 6/16/2020 1:33:41 PM (No. 446415)
With AIDS, we were told we couldn't do contact tracing, because it would invade the privacy of others, or something... that's what happens when you invite AIDS activists to the meeting where you determine the public policy. Dr. Fauci was in charge of that, as well. Politicized science and health care are the result. Can't trace AIDS, but must trace Covid. Must practice social distancing, unless it's for a leftist protest and riot.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
janjan 6/16/2020 2:37:45 PM (No. 446486)
#1 If you choose to comply with an untested theory because it might keep you ‘safe’ have at it. Most of us have not nor will we ever consent to a corrupt government’s pathetic attempts to track our movements and demand that we report who we have associated with.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
FormerDem 6/16/2020 3:28:50 PM (No. 446545)
The content of the article reminds me to say again to Black Americans how thankful I am for the protests that have blown down that stupid lockdown. The looting, which most were not involved in anyway, still wont' cost as much as the lockdown was going to. And as for deaths. Those incompetent Democratic governors were killing old people and causing suicide and unhappiness, which you have largely stopped. Good for you. I won't forget. I really don't think you belong with the stupid and anti-patriotic Democratic party.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/16/2020 3:43:29 PM (No. 446570)
I don't think we want this kind of authority and technology placed into the hands of the fools we have in society. No thanks. They will monitoring 320 million of us, instead of looking at 200 cases, to avoid profiling and all.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
BillW. 6/16/2020 3:59:38 PM (No. 446589)
What is "contact tracing" supposed to be. More commie-left BS?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lakerman1 6/16/2020 5:34:53 PM (No. 446705)
#6, contact tracing on homosexuals with AIDS would not be effective because of the random sexual encounters by strangers, common with some homosexuals.
(My department secretary cautioned me to avoid using a bathroom on the first floor of our building, because it was one of several locations used by male homosexuals on campus for quick hook-ups. There are sites along I79 in Pennsylvania where male homosexuals meet for the same reason. i only know that because I knew a state trooper who was used as bait to attract and arrest the participants.)
Contact tracing for the Kung Flu is simply a way to make people believe that something is being done to deal with the virus.
nancy Pelosi likes to babble, 'test, treat, trace' as a panacea.
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I wouldn't name one name - I would tell them I must have gotten it off of my mail. Shall we expect this kind of monitoring next year for flu season also? This isn't a venereal disease! The government had better stand down!!!
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An appropriately scathing article… Well done, Mr. Marcus...