Posted on 05/19/2020 1:21:30 PM PDT by Thalean
Congress is considering H.R. 6666, the “Testing, Reaching, And Contacting Everyone Act” (“TRACE Act”), a bill by U.S. Representative Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19.
The bill ostensibly would achieve that goal by creating “mobile health units” to “conduct diagnostic testing . . . trace and monitor the contacts of infected individuals” and then “support the quarantine of such contacts”—all at the cost of $100 billion.
Rush says that “increased testing and contact tracing is the only way we will get back normal and safely reopen our economy.” Essentially, Rush’s position—which is echoed by the bulk of America’s political establishment—is that America should remain locked down until everyone is tested. In other words, until everyone is cleared by the government.
The TRACE Act, like so much of the government’s response to COVID-19, will be a giant waste of money that will do nothing to keep Americans healthy or safe. Instead, it will erode what remains of our constitutional freedoms—freedoms that have been all but washed away during the pandemic’s hysteria.
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I’ll take the mark over my dead body. Period.
Keep your powder dry folks.
Lord knows, it could come at any time.
thnaks had a feeling i spelled it wrong- i coulda looked it up i guess but had to run-
Good and good. Nothing pushed by Bobby Rush should see the light of day.
It was a joke, sorry to upset you but punishments are likely else how can it be enforced?
Yes, good point. I wasn’t upset. I actually had doubts about the bill’s existence (the H.R. 6666 seemed a little too convenient to be true, but dang, it was).
$100 billion in the first year...essentially infinite authorization (but not appropriation) after that.
It seems like it’s a job that could never be done...like counting tribbles...I’d be suspicious of anyone who turned in a list of “ALL” the contacts for their clients.
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