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  • No Contact Tracing

    We cannot allow contact tracing to happen.

    vimeo.com/421657568

    The death of our economy due to coronavirus cannot continue. This is a theft of livelihood of people without compensation.

    The time of the quarantines is over for asymptomatic people. The contact tracing however is based on asympotomatic "cases" and could extend to thousands of people based on one person who tested positive.

    This system requires too much personal data, too much government power. They want to separate parents from their children. The quarantines in California are supposed to be covered under workers compensation, but if there were any privilege granted to the State to this, it would have to be the State that compensates, not the insurance.

    The form of contact tracing would follow models from China and North Korea. It will be easy to ramp up with smart phone apps in the States so that people could not travel unless they use these apps. This means that the government is seeking to restrict or prohibit the right to travel.

    You could be forced to quarantine yourself for 14 days. When this is done, you might go somewhere that they say has put you near someone who is asymptomatic and you go right back into quarantine.

    The coronavirus had not turned out to be as deadly as promised and by no means deserves such an oppressive level of government control.

  • #2
    The most frightening part about this pandemic is how quickly liberals have been to relinquish essential liberties in exchange for merely the promise of a little temporary safety. They have deluded themselves into thinking it virtuous to quietly lie on the ground while the government puts its boot on their throat.
    Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
    But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
    Than a fool in the eyes of God


    From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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    • #3
      For those of us who were alive when AIDS first became "a thing", and there was panic being spread about how devastating it would be the the global population, imagine if these same people had suggested "Contact Tracing".
      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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      • #4
        My concern about contact tracing isn't that it will lead to government mandated quarantines. I don't think that would ultimately fly in this country. It's that employers would be informed that so and so was in the same vicinity as a patient, and just to be safe, that employee has suddenly been put off the clock for 14 days.

        My own employer made me jump through hoops to return when they found out that a family member of mine had been hospitalized for something totally separate from covid. HR departments aren't playing around right now.
        "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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        • #5
          Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
          My concern about contact tracing isn't that it will lead to government mandated quarantines. I don't think that would ultimately fly in this country.
          Where have you been the last few months? Government mandated quarantines are already flying in this country, and there are some who are in such a state of fear that they have actually welcomed it.
          Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
          But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
          Than a fool in the eyes of God


          From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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          • #6
            Now I heard about ABC saying the quarantines didn't work. This suggests that politicians will be saying that we have to go to contact tracing. Instead of just declaring the government ideas as always based on ignorance or control mechanisms. The claim will probably be made that people did not obey the quarantine -- place the blame on the people rather than the government policies -- that the government is just power hungry or ill-informed.

            Another step of government incompetance is not worthwhile. There is no constitutional power granted to govenors to take away rights. Of course, the companies will tend to follow these restrictions, even just to avoid having to defend their constitutional rights. That is why the Oregon Salon example is so important.

            I forget which state this was in. There is a police officer who spoke against the quarantine and was booted from the police force for going against the governor. However, the purpose of division of powers is that laws made (or governors' edicts) can be nullified first by the lack of enforcement. The next stage is that the someone charged with a crime can have that charge nullified by the juries. Another stage is to push the court decisions through appeals. However, the typical requirement for appeals is that the issues were raised in the trial court.

            One useful step is that the US Supreme Court finds governor actions as unconstitutional and thus null and void from the time the edicts were made.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
              My concern about contact tracing isn't that it will lead to government mandated quarantines. I don't think that would ultimately fly in this country. It's that employers would be informed that so and so was in the same vicinity as a patient, and just to be safe, that employee has suddenly been put off the clock for 14 days.

              My own employer made me jump through hoops to return when they found out that a family member of mine had been hospitalized for something totally separate from covid. HR departments aren't playing around right now.
              When I speak of government mandated quarantines, it means that the contact trackers can find information that keeps telling you that you have to be quarantined, even when you remain asymptomatic. The employers tend to support the unconstitutional actions just to avoid having to duke it out in court. There is very little distinction between companies fear of lawsuits (by employees or government) and the government defined quarantines once we get into such fear-based policies.

              The contact tracers will be like another branch of government workers (even if being provided by private industry) just like the TSA and Homeland Security. We hardly needed more people working on behalf of the government. One problem now is that the governors' actions have created unemployment, so people will be happy to take these new jobs to steal away our liberties.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                Where have you been the last few months? Government mandated quarantines are already flying in this country, and there are some who are in such a state of fear that they have actually welcomed it.
                I was sort of conflating a discussion from another website with this one. Over there, the discussion was more along the lines of requiring all phones contain the tracing app and quarantining those in the affected area. My point there was that in countries like Singapore, South Korea, etc., that sort of thing may be more accepted than it would be here.
                "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                  I was sort of conflating a discussion from another website with this one. Over there, the discussion was more along the lines of requiring all phones contain the tracing app and quarantining those in the affected area. My point there was that in countries like Singapore, South Korea, etc., that sort of thing may be more accepted than it would be here.
                  I used to think that, but look how easily the population was cowed.
                  Last edited by Mountain Man; 06-01-2020, 10:25 PM.
                  Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                  But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                  Than a fool in the eyes of God


                  From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                  • #10
                    I haven't looked at the statistics recently, but I was under the impression that countries that did not have widespread quarantines also did not have high numbers of cases because they used contact tracing instead to curb the spread. Am I mistaken?
                    Curiosity never hurt anyone. It was stupidity that killed the cat.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by QuantaFille View Post
                      I haven't looked at the statistics recently, but I was under the impression that countries that did not have widespread quarantines also did not have high numbers of cases because they used contact tracing instead to curb the spread. Am I mistaken?
                      One big factor about number of cases is that this depends first on number of people that are tested. If you test a few people, you only could have a few cases. If you test a thousand people, you could have lots people with positive test results. Also, if the tests have 20% percent false positives, the test of of 1000 virus-free people would end up giving you 200 positive tests. So the testing does not have much value.

                      The RT-PCR test that has been relied upon is not recommended for diagnostic testing. Its use is for research purposes only.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by QuantaFille View Post
                        I haven't looked at the statistics recently, but I was under the impression that countries that did not have widespread quarantines also did not have high numbers of cases because they used contact tracing instead to curb the spread. Am I mistaken?
                        No, you're correct. Those countries that started contact tracing and testing early, such as New Zealand, have successfully contained the pandemic.
                        Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.

                        MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
                        MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Roy View Post
                          No, you're correct. Those countries that started contact tracing and testing early, such as New Zealand, have successfully contained the pandemic.
                          New Zealand had among the strictest nationwide quarantines. We also had contact tracing going fairly early. So we would not be an example of what Quantafile is looking for. Perhaps Taiwan would be.

                          IMO achieving elimination of Covid in New Zealand was 100% due to the quarantine and 0% due to contact tracing. The contact tracing acted solely as a nice-to-have that helped people in government understand the situation better and helped them to make decisions around de-escalating the quarantine.
                          "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                          "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                          "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by mikewhitney View Post
                            Also, if the tests have 20% percent false positives, the test of of 1000 virus-free people would end up giving you 200 positive tests.
                            Fortunately the standard RT-PCR tests don't give false positives. Since eliminating the virus, my country has continued to do tens of thousands of tests without a single positive one.

                            The RT-PCR test that has been relied upon is not recommended for diagnostic testing.
                            Total baloney. RT-PCR is a decades old tried and true method that is totally standard for diagnostic testing across all fields.

                            Don't confuse it with the new antibody tests under development that do have false positives and aren't reliable.
                            "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                            "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                            "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                              New Zealand had among the strictest nationwide quarantines. We also had contact tracing going fairly early. So we would not be an example of what Quantafile is looking for. Perhaps Taiwan would be.

                              IMO achieving elimination of Covid in New Zealand was 100% due to the quarantine and 0% due to contact tracing. The contact tracing acted solely as a nice-to-have that helped people in government understand the situation better and helped them to make decisions around de-escalating the quarantine.
                              Interesting. I checked before posting, and found a statement by one of the NZ health chiefs who talked about tracing.
                              Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.

                              MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
                              MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.

                              seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...

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