Posted on 06/16/2020 9:34:47 AM PDT by Twotone
Mayor de Blasio has expressed concern that the George Floyd protests could boost the coronavirus pandemic just as New Yorkers have finally gained the upper hand — but City Hall doesn’t seem too interested in finding out for sure. Workers for the city’s contact tracing program are told not to ask those who’ve tested positive for the bug whether they’ve taken part in the demonstrations, instead relying on them to cough up the information themselves, officials said. “We’re doing everything we can to keep New Yorkers safe while respecting individual privacy,” said de Blasio spokeswoman Avery Cohen. “Over the course of their interview with a tracer, a person may be asked if they were in a large crowd or event in recent weeks, with full confidence that any information they share will be protected under the fullest extent of the law.” While there is no specific directive barring tracers from asking about protest participation, Cohen separately told The City, which first reported the indirect approach, that people won’t be asked. So far, the city has not seen a significant spike since the protests, as some had feared, which experts have attributed to a high percentage of mask usage among participants and the open air. But both City Councilmembers and health professionals said that the question should still be asked.
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This just goes to show that we can’t trust statistics from any governmental bureaucracy.
More likely infected individuals will tell their contacts to get tested.
What ah would make a complaint because they saw “someone” without a mask?
liberals who want the state shut down until election day- blaming it all on President Trump- liberals that vehemently opposed taking HCQ and Zinc to prevent deaths- and liberals that supported cuomo and ilk sending sick people into nursing homes knowing full well it would kill the elderly-
The Democrats used Covid to solve the Social Security problem. About time someone tackled the problem./SARC
Yeah, right. I just looked for photos of protestors; rioters; looters; etc in NYC and find almost zero photographs. I wanted to see how many were wearing masks. There's almost no photographic evidence of the riot!
What if you are absolutely positive you got it from unprotected random anal sex?
Will they stop then?
I think they’d want to probe deeper...
“then the contact tracers aren’t tracing contact“
Doesn’t matter, they are getting PAID by the taxpayers to do it. Bonus: this will provide “science” as data to prove that protesting/rioting didn’t bump up the numbers.
Bastards.
No surprise
You’ve nailed the slogan for sure
Just lie to them. People on the left lie all the time and get away with it.
agree-its more about Dems getting power and winning Presidency, Senate, House IF Biden wins you watch Covid concerns will go away
IF Biden wins you watch Covid concerns will go away,the disease will be cured.
Then, we will be dying from heart attacks, cancer and other diseases “cured” since the middle of March by the mediots with their 24/7 focus on CV~19.
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