Posted on 05/19/2020 10:29:42 AM PDT by buckalfa
As the U.S. aims to reduce the spread of COVID-19, tens of thousands of Americans have applied for contact tracer roles to help track cases and exposure, according to The New York Times.
Five things to know about these workers:
1. At least 11,142 contact tracers are working now in the U.S., according to a survey conducted in late April by NPR. The number may be higher since figures for all states in the late April survey have not been updated.
2. Estimates of how many contact tracers are needed nationwide range from 100,000 to 300,000, according to NPR and the Times.
3. States and cities have already made efforts to boost contact tracing staffing. California announced a partnership with the University of California, San Francisco for contact tracing training and aims to ultimately have 20,000 contact tracers, according to NPR. And New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced May 8 a city test and trace corps that will comprise 2,500 public health experts who will "lead the way in creating testing and tracing." Mr. de Blasio expects the test and trace corps to eventually consist of between 5,000 and 10,000 people.
4. Contact tracers cold-call people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus, the Times reported. They work full time or part time.
5. Pay for contact tracers, who are largely recruited by state and local governments, is often $17 to $25 per hour, according to the Times. Some contact tracers also receive benefits.
Kinda of too late for contact tracing
I remember the early days of TSA, when there was a lot of Dem agitation to make the TSA employees permanent government employees with benefits. Grab crotch, get pension.
I wonder if “contact tracing” will eventually become a broader, career protected occupation extending past COVID?
You are right on target.
This is TSA II all designed to create Thousands More Standing Around.
All protected by Federal Unions
Two things,, worked at TSA,, we did’nt just stand around,, at my airport we worked our butts off pretty much non stop full shift,, and believe me, the pension ain’t all that!
Remember the good old days when you got a cold or flu and it was nobodies else’s danged business?
1) Do you have a warrant?
2) Am I being detained?
3) May I speak with my lawyer?
(***Crickets***)
After billions of dollars paid, did any TSA employee ever catch any terrorist anywhere?
the government is setting up a corps of spies and professional rats who spy on us and report anything that might be offensive to their superiors. didn’t hitler have an organization like this?
need to identify them personally, and publicly shame them as nasty little stool pigeons.
4) come and get me. (If you dare)
Requirements are usually being a minority. Looks like another jobs giveaway. Whites need not apply.
Fava beans. Chianti.
“I wonder if ‘contact tracing’ will eventually become a broader, career protected occupation extending past COVID?”
Ya THINK?!? I’ll be broader, and it’ll be nefarious.
2020 brownshirts of Adolph, red brigades of Mao. Combined with prison releases and foreign invaders thrown in....well,...
...Obama delivered a speech in Boulder, Colorado in which he promised the creation and establishment of a “Civilian National Security Force.” He further promised it would be “just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded as the US Military.”
It is well known amongst dictators, the world over, that a private army is necessary to control the great unwashed masses over which they force their rule.
Fast & furious. “Non-essentials” watch out. Know your enemies.
Well, these Dems aren’t true global pathfinders. I’d look to STASI and CCP for examples if I wanted to know how its been done historically, and I’ll bet they have.
Imagine when ID thieves start calling, pretending to be C19 tracers.
So is this the genesis of the Democrats SA or einsatzgruppen?
Well, these could turn out to be worse than just more do-nothing jobs.
Thousands more government employees whose job it is to “trace” people? The government would never think of anything nefarious to do with that when the virus is over, would they?
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