To heck with privacy. How about telling where this guy is from so his neighbors will know to not go out for more tp.
“Neither patient is an Austin resident, officials say. The woman’s case was linked to the Houston area, where she is from, and the man contracted the virus from outside the city. He was sent to an Austin-area hospital from an undisclosed rural part of the state.
City officials declined to say where the man is from because he’s from a small community and releasing details could “risk compromising the privacy of the patient.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/15/texas-public-schools-closure-coronavirus/
“Many Texas schools could be closed through academic year due to coronavirus, education commissioner warns”
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/coronavirus/denton-county-coronavirus/2331068/
Male in 30s. Yet another travel related.
Dang, we all said to stop planes and ships weeks or a month ago.
“To heck with privacy. How about telling where this guy is from so his neighbors will know to not go out for more tp.”
In Hong Kong, for every case, they give out everything they know other than the name and the Social Security Number of the person - right down to the building and floor they live on.
Privacy is nice, but becomes secondary when an entire society is on the verge of being brought to its knees.