Contract tracing has proven to be a useful tool during infectious disease outbreaks. But that was in the halycion days when it was used by health professionals. Now, in the hands of the communist deep state, the tool has been weaponized to their own political ends and cannot be trusted.
Any contact tracers who show up on my property will be given an armed escort off my property.
Same problem with testing. They WANT to ramp up testing of random individuals, so they can catch asymptomatic cases, or better, show that the virus has died down (something that is hard to do testing only those people who think they have it).
Interestingly, when we were testing “people who were probably positives”, we were getting 15% positives, which shows how bad people were at knowing if they had it. (That was also driven by full-testing when they found cases).
But random tests are supposed to show if it is spreading around; if you test 100 random “non-sick” people, and find no cases, it suggests that you have controlled it. IF you find 20, it says it is still running all over, and you need to take caution.
BUT — nobody who is not sick wants to get tested, because if they find out they have it, they have to quarantine. Now I would want to know so I didn’t infect people, but a lot of people would rather risk infecting others than get locked in their houses for 2 weeks.
I actually read a story about some nurse who was pretty sure she was infected, but didn’t get tested because she knew if she tested positive, she wouldn’t be able to help her patients.
The communist Chinese coaching our governors to use “contact tracing” forgot one thing, it only works when the leaders are against the protests like in China, unlike the USA.
I DON’T REMEMBER
As well it should be.
If we want to get close to a normally functioning economy we need to identify problem areas and limit spread.
That won't happen by itself and I notice the author just assumes everything will be alright if we just go about life as normal.
The obvious problem with this thinking is the American people are too smart. They, not the government, shut down the economy. They also led the reopening - governors followed.
If we see big increases in Covid the people will shut things down again regardless of what the government says.
Contact tracing's a tool that's proven to work and those who oppose it do so at the cost of a slower recovery.
Apple wanted me to download the update with tracing. I’ve refused to download it so far.
SNORT. It's working really well. We've got positives and their close contacts who refuse to stay home. Lots of people to rat them out. And nobody willing to make them stay put once ID'd.
Healthy people are locked up why?!?
It is way, way, way, way, way too late to do contact tracing. Perhaps in January or early February of this year it might have been feasible, but that boat has sailed. All it means now is installation of the “Surveillance State” and endless recession. Reject this idiocy.