Posted on 08/15/2020 10:56:44 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Only a handful of contact tracers working to slow COVID-19 in 125 communities near Chicago speak Spanish, despite significant Hispanic populations. Churches and advocacy groups in the Houston area are trying to convince immigrants to cooperate when health officials call. And in California, immigrants are being trained as contact tracers to ease mistrust.
The crucial job of reaching people who test positive for the coronavirus and those they’ve come in contact with is proving especially difficult in immigrant communities because of language barriers, confusion and fear of the government.
The failure of health departments across the U.S. to adequately investigate coronavirus outbreaks among non-English speakers is all the more fraught given the soaring and disproportionate case counts among Latinos in many states. Four of the hardest-hit states — Florida, Texas, Arizona and California — have major Spanish-speaking populations.
In the ZIP code with the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Maryland, 56% of adults speak Spanish. But only 60 of Maryland’s 1,350 contact tracers speak Spanish.
And the language barriers go beyond Spanish: Minneapolis needs tracers who also speak Somali, Oromo and Hmong, Chicago needs Polish speakers and Houston’s Harris County is grappling with a population that includes Vietnamese, Chinese and Hindi speakers.
But even when health officials overcome language barriers, they still must dispel the deep suspicions raised among immigrants when someone with the government calls to ask about their movements in an era of hardline immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump. …
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One we had millions of cases in this country, contact tracing became idiotic. Maybe when we had hundreds of cases, but ut has been spread across the country just as infectious diseases are known to behave.
Even with cases numbering in the hundreds, contact tracing is all about a surveillance state and not about saving lives.
BUMP!
When Trump called for quarantine, the left-wing governors instituted lockdowns, with the notion of “contact tracing” built in. They’ve always been trying for a push for surveillance states, and they must be terribly frustrated that it didn’t go through, never mind this dichotomy of creating a surveillance net that they can let the illegals slip through comfortably.
And of course, look at how this has been coordinated worldwide.
The Hispanics usually won’t even turn in Hispanic felons on the run and the government expects them to contact trace....bwhahahahaha
probably the same is true for inner city blacks, though for different reasons, which means the REAL goal of “contact tracing” is simply to push law-abiding whites under the fascist thumb of “covid emergency” ...
Americans are free citizens, we are not subjects. If it happened to me, I will give them the names of Disney characters, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse......
surveil
English
Verb
surveil (third-person singular simple present surveils, present participle surveilling, simple past and past participle surveilled)
transitive, US) To keep someone or something under surveillance.
Usage notes
Found without any comment in major American dictionaries, and in some British dictionaries. Collins recognizes it as either American or British. The 2015 edition of Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage labels it as “mostly AmE”. Unrecognized by OED.
The Hispanics usually won’t even turn in Hispanic felons on the run and the government expects them to contact trace....bwhahahahaha
= = =
Ask them where they got their Corona?
The Mexicans beat the crap out of the BLM racists when BLM tried to loot and burn down Mexican neighborhoods.
I don’t see a need to overcome language barriers to stomp black racists into the concrete.
BS.
I knew a guy who was an EMT in the NYC area, and when the rescue squad all the (Hispanics) were telling him in ENGLISH what happened.
The minute the police showed up, it was *No hablo Ingles*.
I’d lay money on it that they are just fighting the contact tracing by feigning inability to speak English.
Yep; an ill-formed (and still thankfully uncommon) attempt at neologism.
Contact tracing is ridiculous! States are committing millions of dollars to hire people to be tracers. More taxpayers’ $$ down the tube.
A person goes into a grocery store, shops and leaves. That person later tests positive, but is asymptomatic. Why in hell is that person being pursued to identify everyone he/she was near in the store? I don’t know the other shoppers!
The only situation I can think of where contact tracing actually was beneficial occurred in the 1980s.
That was when AIDS was the big thing and people knew who they had had sex with that was leading to the spread and deaths.
They have no white guilt.
That’s “beneficial”?
It would have been of far greater benefit to stop that kind of behavior.
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