"No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine."
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Under House Arrest in America: Tracing You and Your Contacts
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”--Comrade Obama, July 2, 2008, Boulder, Colorado At this new link, Bill Clinton, Gov. Cuomo and Gov. Newsomepropose a standing "Army" of Federal Contact Tracers, perhaps using AmeriCorps. The Mussolini-vibe rolling off Cuomo is unmistakable.
NEW YORK — Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has been enlisted to help create a “tracing army” that will find COVID-19 infected people and get them into isolation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday. ...
The tracing army will be coordinated within the tri-state area and downstate New York because people across the tri-state come in contact with others outside of one community.
About 35,000 CUNY and SUNY students in the medical field will also serve as tracers, according to Cuomo. ...
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio also announced a "test and trace" plan with the goal of making testing available to every community. The plan would include immediate assessment of people who test positive for COVID-19, isolation and support at homes, hospitals or hotels, and rapidly tracing, assessing and quarantining people who came in close contact with the patient.
“We have to have all the building blocks in place” to reduce the spread in the future, according to de Blasio. ...
The three-parts Cuomo summed up simply, at his daily briefing on Wednesday morning, in Albany.
"Testing, tracing, and then isolating," the governor said..."
So Cuomo's 35 thousand college students and the 10 thousand additional NYC tracers hired by di Blasio will decide if you are under house arrest. What could possibly go wrong?
ABC: "A report co-authored by university health experts and a group representing state and territorial health officials estimates that in order to “trace all contacts, safely isolate the sick, and quarantine those exposed,” the country needs to add 100,000 contact tracers to the current effort, to the tune of $3.6 billion dollars. Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and New York City health commissioner Tom Friedman said he believes the country needs “an army of 300,000 people.” Vice President Pence said this week that the CDC would be deploying teams of 10 to 12 people to each state to assist the local efforts on 12-to 18-month rotations, and recently CDC Director Robert Redfield suggested his agency would work with states to deploy many more people. But some lawmakers say the federal government will need to do much more for contact tracing in order to help states safely re-open the country. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California announced Wednesday afternoon that the state is building a massive army of 10,000 tracers as part of its efforts to prepare the state for future reentry. Newsom added that tracing is "not just about numbers," but also "about quality," explaining that the state is implementing systems to ensure good information is collected. Massachusetts is in its second week of a contact tracing program that’s among the most aggressive in the nation. The state has hired more than 300 people to begin tracing and in the first week of the program contact investigators reached 765 Massachusetts residents who have tested positive. Those 765 people have identified more than 1,000 close contacts, meaning someone they spent more than 15 minutes within six feet of during the three days before their positive test, an illustration of the race the contract tracers are in against the potential spread of the virus. Contact tracers have reached 626 of those second-order contacts. Massachusetts also says they have nearly 2,000 volunteers prepared to assist their contact tracing investigation. The state has partnered with various public and private institutions across the state through the launch of the “Community Tracing Collaborative,” according to Omar Cabrera, a spokesperson for the health department. Cabrera said the program has already received 13,000 applications for both paid and unpaid positions and is looking to hire up to 1,000 additional people. Dr. Joia Mukherjee, the chief medical officer for the Boston-based Partners in Health, the nonprofit working with Massachusetts on the state’s coronavirus contact tracing program, said investing the stimulus money into “hiring millions of people to do contact tracing, putting hoteliers and hotel workers back to worth providing housing and isolation, putting restaurateurs and line cooks back to work by providing food to people who need to stay in quarantine,” could potentially shorten the epidemic. “This is really doable, the contact tracing piece,” Mukherjee said. “But it has to be heavily invested in.” Maryland and Minnesota already have contact tracing teams in place, but health officials from both states said they would need hundreds more people to be effective. Maryland estimates it will need to quadruple staffing from 250 contact tracers to close to 1,000. Minnesota health officials said they’ll need to increase their contact tracing staff which is currently about 100 people, seven fold. North Carolina’s health department spokesperson also said the state will need “a much larger team” going forward. “Where the personnel would come from, that’s part of the planning effort,” said Doug Schultz, a spokesman for the Minnesota Health Department. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio said “thousands and thousands” of contact tracers would be put to work identifying potential coronavirus carriers who will be isolated in hotels bought out by the city.
In Rhode Island, 100 members of the National Guard are assisting the effort alongside 140 staffers from the health department. The state is also partnering with the global software company SalesForce which is creating a database to allow for the Guard and their department of health “to do contact tracing more efficiently and effectively.”...….
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Everybody, we Really Need to fight tooth and toenail against this "Contact Tracing" bullshit. If gay men weren't required to do any of this for AIDS, like hell should all of us be forced to participate in this nonsense for a COLD virus. And it is absolutely useless to "contact trace" any pathogen that is transmitted like this: on literally any available surface for hours/days, as well as random near misses on the street. It's Im-Possible. It would be a medically Useless, grossly intrusive, tyrannical invasion of our lives and privacy. Not to mention, it would set all of us against each other. I've already dealt with 3 Leftoids in my apt. building shunning and bullying me After doing a full 16 days of self-quarantine: this will mean open season on all of us who have had the Chinese Death Cooties. No. Thank. You.
Posted by: Beverly
How would this even work when 15% of the population has already been exposed?
You know, I've had enough database searches on citizens by government surveillance operatives to last a lifetime. I don't remenber voting for an Army of Surveillence Workers with arrest powers. Do you?
"Me, either!"--local surfer M. Flynn, evading Gov. Newsome's Surf Police Gov. Nuisance orders a revenge-closing of Orange County beaches only. Orange County sheriff says he will not enforce it.
The Constitutional Option For Optional Constitution--UPDATE:
"Justice Samuel Alito this week ordered the Pennsylvania government to respond to arguments from a variety of Pennsylvanians asking the Supreme Court to halt enforcement of Gov. Tom Wolf's strict stay-at-home order, aimed at fighting the coronavirus, because they say it is unconstitutional. The Pennsylvanians behind the suit – called petitioners in Supreme Court parlance – are arguing that their rights under the First, Fifth and 14th Amendments have been violated through Wolf's order. The petition lays out a variety of grounds on which it says the order is unconstitutional."
At this new link, Bill Clinton, Gov. Cuomo and Gov. Newsome propose a standing "Army" of Federal Contact Tracers, perhaps using AmeriCorps. The Mussolini-vibe rolling off Cuomo is unmistakable.
NEW YORK — Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has been enlisted to help create a “tracing army” that will find COVID-19 infected people and get them into isolation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday. ...
The tracing army will be coordinated within the tri-state area and downstate New York because people across the tri-state come in contact with others outside of one community.
About 35,000 CUNY and SUNY students in the medical field will also serve as tracers, according to Cuomo. ...
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio also announced a "test and trace" plan with the goal of making testing available to every community. The plan would include immediate assessment of people who test positive for COVID-19, isolation and support at homes, hospitals or hotels, and rapidly tracing, assessing and quarantining people who came in close contact with the patient.
“We have to have all the building blocks in place” to reduce the spread in the future, according to de Blasio. ...
The three-parts Cuomo summed up simply, at his daily briefing on Wednesday morning, in Albany.
"Testing, tracing, and then isolating," the governor said..."
So Cuomo's 35 thousand college students and the 10 thousand additional NYC tracers hired by di Blasio will decide if you are under house arrest. What could possibly go wrong?
--from Mayor Varren Vilhelm, Jr., who honeymooned in Havana.
But at least they'll be traced!
Vice President Pence said this week that the CDC would be deploying teams of 10 to 12 people to each state to assist the local efforts on 12-to 18-month rotations, and recently CDC Director Robert Redfield suggested his agency would work with states to deploy many more people. But some lawmakers say the federal government will need to do much more for contact tracing in order to help states safely re-open the country.
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California announced Wednesday afternoon that the state is building a massive army of 10,000 tracers as part of its efforts to prepare the state for future reentry. Newsom added that tracing is "not just about numbers," but also "about quality," explaining that the state is implementing systems to ensure good information is collected.
Massachusetts is in its second week of a contact tracing program that’s among the most aggressive in the nation. The state has hired more than 300 people to begin tracing and in the first week of the program contact investigators reached 765 Massachusetts residents who have tested positive.
Those 765 people have identified more than 1,000 close contacts, meaning someone they spent more than 15 minutes within six feet of during the three days before their positive test, an illustration of the race the contract tracers are in against the potential spread of the virus. Contact tracers have reached 626 of those second-order contacts.
Massachusetts also says they have nearly 2,000 volunteers prepared to assist their contact tracing investigation. The state has partnered with various public and private institutions across the state through the launch of the “Community Tracing Collaborative,” according to Omar Cabrera, a spokesperson for the health department. Cabrera said the program has already received 13,000 applications for both paid and unpaid positions and is looking to hire up to 1,000 additional people.
Dr. Joia Mukherjee, the chief medical officer for the Boston-based Partners in Health, the nonprofit working with Massachusetts on the state’s coronavirus contact tracing program, said investing the stimulus money into “hiring millions of people to do contact tracing, putting hoteliers and hotel workers back to worth providing housing and isolation, putting restaurateurs and line cooks back to work by providing food to people who need to stay in quarantine,” could potentially shorten the epidemic.
“This is really doable, the contact tracing piece,” Mukherjee said. “But it has to be heavily invested in.”
Maryland and Minnesota already have contact tracing teams in place, but health officials from both states said they would need hundreds more people to be effective. Maryland estimates it will need to quadruple staffing from 250 contact tracers to close to 1,000. Minnesota health officials said they’ll need to increase their contact tracing staff which is currently about 100 people, seven fold. North Carolina’s health department spokesperson also said the state will need “a much larger team” going forward.
“Where the personnel would come from, that’s part of the planning effort,” said Doug Schultz, a spokesman for the Minnesota Health Department.
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio said “thousands and thousands” of contact tracers would be put to work identifying potential coronavirus carriers who will be isolated in hotels bought out by the city.
If gay men weren't required to do any of this for AIDS, like hell should all of us be forced to participate in this nonsense for a COLD virus.
And it is absolutely useless to "contact trace" any pathogen that is transmitted like this: on literally any available surface for hours/days, as well as random near misses on the street. It's Im-Possible. It would be a medically Useless, grossly intrusive, tyrannical invasion of our lives and privacy.
Not to mention, it would set all of us against each other. I've already dealt with 3 Leftoids in my apt. building shunning and bullying me After doing a full 16 days of self-quarantine: this will mean open season on all of us who have had the Chinese Death Cooties.
No. Thank. You.
Do you?
Gov. Nuisance orders a revenge-closing of Orange County beaches only.
Orange County sheriff says he will not enforce it.