It’s Official: America Is Following China’s Lead – Contact Tracing Is Here – Say Goodbye to Freedom and Hello to State Control

Gateway Pundit ^ | 30 Jul 20 | Joe Hoft

[SkyPilot]

In May we reported on our concerns with contact tracing and our loss of freedom as a result of this practice. We reported that contact tracers will track you and tell you what you can and cannot do. You will be a puppet of the state. You must do what they say for the greater good. Freedom will be lost forever.

We reported that Democrat states were promoting the idea of “contact tracing” and when you realize what it is, you will think you are living in Orwell’s 1984.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot cheered the news that Chicago was hiring 600 tracers to track its citizens using the coronavirus as the excuse. We then shared an excellent video (which has now been taken down by YouTube) that explained the madness behind contact tracing. In the video the following points were made:

1. Of course John Hopkins offers contact tracer training (connected to the scary overboard coronavirus chart)

2. Based on you coming in contact with a person who has COVID-19 you will be placed in total isolation for 10 days

3. If you have no way of not sharing a bathroom you will need to be isolated

4. If you are quarantined you will be isolated for 14 days 5. Contact tracer will take care of your kids but you cannot leave your house

6. If you eat at a restaurant and someone was found with COVID you will be quarantined

7. Big government will video conference you and review your place to make sure you are isolated

8. If you get it your family will have to be quarantined for 14 days and completely isolated

9. If you were on a train, at work or in a restaurant then everyone near you will have...

[Buckeye McFrog]

Actually they’ve used it for every major epidemic or feared was going to be major epidemic since we figured out germ theory. So really I should 150 years.

That must have gone well in the last century. "I demand the names of people you've had contact with recently". "Get off of my property!" BLAM!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Just watch Tucker Carlson’s opening monologues. The Wu Flu lockdowns — at least in DimBulbCrat states —, riots, crime, and perhaps this contact tracing misery as well, are all designed by the DimBulbCrats to amp up our “misery index” in order to make it more likely that Trump will be voted out of office. And then the half-wit tip of the bloody Marxist spear will enter the White House next January.

[discostu]

Actually people were very giving of information back then. Hell you’d give your name and address to the clerk at a store when you bought stuff. When things like The Pox are around and wiping entire towns off the planet people understand figuring out the path of a disease and cutting it off is a good thing.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

This sounds a bit different from what’s gone on so far, in which someone shows up at the doc with Wu Flu, then the doc asks who he’s been in contact with the past so many days. The doc then passes that on to the health department, which then calls the possibly-exposed people to get them to stay home for 14 days.

What I just read sounds a great deal more obnoxious and intrusive.

[Rebelbase]

Leave your phone at home and pay with cash.

[MayflowerMadam]

“John Hopkins offers contact tracer training”

JohnS Hopkins

[Spirochete]

B.S. Contact tracing has been used for CENTURIES to control the spread of disease.

When Aides was really bad it was used, voluntarily I might ad, by many homosexuals to slow the spread.

Contract tracing does not = Police State

Unlike previous epidemics, this virus being used as a pretext for expanding state control. Contact tracing is now a political tool, like all the other COVID-related hysteria.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

So then, would one of those fancy little bags my EZ-Pass transponders came in work with my cell phone?

[SunkenCiv]

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot cheered the news that Chicago was hiring 600 tracers to track its citizens using the coronavirus as the excuse. We then shared an excellent video (which has now been taken down by YouTube) that explained the madness behind contact tracing.

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[Buckeye McFrog]

Tell ya what, Stu. When I get the flux capacitor replaced in the DeLorean I’ll take you back to 1870’s Kentucky and you can test out your theory.

[discostu]

Just using the technology that’s available.

[MayflowerMadam]

“You can turn off Tracing on your cell phone.”

I checked mine on my Android and you have to actively turn it on, and have Bluetooth on.

Of course, that’s what it looks like; who knows if it’s true or not?

[discostu]

Tell you what Buckeye, when you feel the need to go to insults that means you’ve run out of facts and are wrong. But not man enough to admit it.

There’s plenty of recorded history on this. Once we figured out how viruses work we started doing contact tracing when we felt we needed to. That is a FACT. Sorry you find it inconvenient.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The way this thing spreads in enclosed, crowded spaces is more like measles (R0 of 14). I don’t find it a contradiction to take prudent precautions with this bug wandering around the planet while also eschewing what seems to be a new, more oppressive version of contact tracing.

[MayflowerMadam]

Two weeks ago I wanted to make reservations for Sunday lunch. They needed to know the name and cell number of every person in the party, for “contact tracing”.

Fat chance.

[BipolarBob]

I wouldn’t know. I don’t have one.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

Exactly right!

When you stick to the facts, there’s no reason to be afraid. There’s reason to take sensible precautions, but no reason for undue fear.

But you’ve got half the country (the left) thinking this is weaponized smallpox and we’re all going to die, and a chunk of people on the right who are convinced President Trump is ready to kick down their door so Bill Gates can inject them with mind control microchips. It’s absolutely ridiculous.

Wash your hands. Avoid crowds. If you’re indoors in public, put on a mask. If you’re part of a particularly vulnerable population, take additional measures to avoid significant indoor exposure to other people. Other than that, LIVE YOUR LIFE. The government isn’t coming to get you. Bill Gates isn’t coming to get you. There is no army of spies dedicated to watching you wipe your butt each morning. Just live your damn life and enjoy the time you have on this Earth.

[LouieFisk]

"The right is as bad as the left in keeping tensions up aren’t they?"
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Gives everybody a chance to use cool-looking graphics.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Yep. I bet the po po sure had fun asking the Hatfields and McCoys for their contact information during an outbreak.

[hsmomx3]

I have the health app turned OFF.