Here we go again “experts” more wasted tax dollars for a workforce that will be guided by diversity
I thought Google and cell phone companies were already providing this info.
Who needs humans, ABC?
What century are you living in?
Papers please!
Here it comes.
Mandated cell phone tracking.
Apple is going to catch heck for backing this.
Experts? Experts? I thought they were all out of work because of CV19?
This is completely out of control. Or maybe I should say completely IN control.
hey all, it’s not as if we are being manipulated, or herded into something that might not be in our best interests...
I have new plan, Democrats should stay sequestered and isolated. Republicans and indys can return to normal life.
Sounds like a perfect excuse to start China-style control over us.
What, create a public health version of the TSA?
No thank you.
How did we ever get by in the past without a whole government public health contingent barging into our personal affairs. /s
Seems to me, the same process used in the past to track and report infectious disease is adequate, also, for COVID.
This is getting ridiculous!
Why dont we do this with HIV/ AIDs while we’re at it
Just to be safe....
The cat’s long outta the bag in “hot spots” such as the bulk of the Northeast.
But yeah, it could help in, say, Nebraska and Alaska.
And here we could mass-produce and distribute those cheap drugs that help out most COVID cases and gradually re-open the economy meantime. But that wouldn’t expand the government, don’tcha know?
Contact tracing with 600,000 cases? Someone is trying to build a bureaucratic empire. No, thank you.
Great! Another unelected, bloated government bureaucracy that will exist in perpetuity sucking in taxpayer dollars to do a job long since vanished.
What is wrong with the uniformed Public Health Service?
Some people (this writer) have no clue what actually exists in the world today.
And tech surveillance!
Johns Hopkins is generally an intel stomping ground, but they are in this up to their eyeballs. (They actually organized Gates’s Event 201 in October.)
Epidemic outbreaks are temporary. There is no need for a permanent new government workforce. Dealing with an epidemic outbreak, as an emergncy, should involve many goverment workers being temporarily reassigned to temporary emergency duties. This can take place at every level - local, state and federal.
The pencil pushers can get off their butts and get out there and do the contact tracing. It does not take a college degree to train people for such temporary work nor to do the work that needs to be done. FEMA or CDC can “lead” if they want, also by transferring folks to the effort instead of hiering additional staff.
“If we don’t do that, we will not be able to lift these blunt social distancing measures that are keeping everyone at home,” said Crystal Watson, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and one of the lead authors of the report. “
Sweden would disagree with that theory.