[Mr. Rabbit]

As long as it’s strictly optional, they need to be doing this to get good random statistical samples of who has already had the Beer Flu. This will finally start to show the real death rate, which is going to be far lower than the panic-monger numbers like 3% put out based on the highly biased “cases” number as the denominator. The real death rate is deaths / infections, and they still don’t really know the real infection rate since most people get no or mild symptoms from the Beer Flu and may not even realize they had it or even had a cold.

[johniegrad]

As long as it’s strictly optional, they need to be doing this to get good random statistical samples of who has already had the Beer Flu. This will finally start to show the real death rate, which is going to be far lower than the panic-monger numbers like 3% put out based on the highly biased “cases” number as the denominator. The real death rate is deaths / infections, and they still don’t really know the real infection rate since most people get no or mild symptoms from the Beer Flu and may not even realize they had it or even had a cold.

I understand the concerns we all have about government intrusion into out lives and the potential loss of freedoms.

Mistrust of government is certainly warranted.

If this is strictly a voluntary process, it makes sense. The goal would be to establish actual morbidity rates and risk in the general population rather than in selective biased samples of sick people.

As long as the process remains voluntary, I have less concern about loss of freedoms from a blood draw than I do about loss of freedoms because of biased samples making the disease seem more dangerous than it is. That has been the cause of government over regulation so far.

[johniegrad]

As long as it’s strictly optional, they need to be doing this to get good random statistical samples of who has already had the Beer Flu. This will finally start to show the real death rate, which is going to be far lower than the panic-monger numbers like 3% put out based on the highly biased “cases” number as the denominator. The real death rate is deaths / infections, and they still don’t really know the real infection rate since most people get no or mild symptoms from the Beer Flu and may not even realize they had it or even had a cold.

I understand the concerns we all have about government intrusion into out lives and the potential loss of freedoms.

Mistrust of government is certainly warranted.

If this is strictly a voluntary process, it makes sense. The goal would be to establish actual morbidity rates and risk in the general population rather than in selective biased samples of sick people.

As long as the process remains voluntary, I have less concern about loss of freedoms from a blood draw than I do about loss of freedoms because of biased samples making the disease seem more dangerous than it is. That has been the cause of government over regulation so far.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Efforts at getting to a true statistical sample of the population in Santa Clara County, CA were heavily criticized. The researcher at Stanford solicited volunteers via a Facebook ad which critics think skewed the sample toward the rich and toward people who wanted to get tested.

"...making random stops at randomly selected residences to ask random citizens" for a sample is about as random as it can get. The operative word is "ask."

Of course, asking "citizens" skews it against illegals, but I suppose that'd the author's cute way of saying "whoever answers the door."

[DUMBGRUNT]

A DNA sample?
Contract tracing?
So you will have a stranger come to your house, ask all about who you know and where you have been; and sign a waiver allowing them to record everything and download your google location history?
they will not pay you for the information and will penalize you for not assisting.

And all the information will be saved on a BIG Government DOUBLE SECURE computer. FOREVER SAFE!!!
Yeah, right.

Now, all that data would be worth a lot of money, do you think your fat slob of a governor (ILLINOIS) of a bankrupt state or a midget mayor (Chicago) of a big broken-down city, or a zillion other scheming politicians would sell your data?
NO, they would give it away for a fun weekend in Vegas and the promise of some votes.

Also, they would PAY MS GOOG AMZ to build the BIG Government DOUBLE SECURE FOREVER SAFE computer. And like the Canadian gun computer, BIllions$$$, never worked and shit caned.

You will be receiving spam the same day as the contact tracer/DNA tester sees you, but it will be years before any actual research if any is completed.

By the way, where is the vaccine for the common cold? It is also a coronavirus????????