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NY partygoers get subpoenas after stonewalling COVID-19 contact tracers:
Test, isolate, trace, quarantine: these are the bedrock public health measures proven effective at stamping out an infectious disease before it flares to the point where the only option left is to foist draconian lockdowns on whole populations.
[...] On Wednesday, officials in Rockland County—just north of New York City—reported a cluster of cases linked to a recent party of up to 100 people largely in their early 20s. At the time of the party, the host was infected and had symptoms but held the party anyway.
So far, at least eight attendees have tested positive for the virus. But many partygoers have refused to work with public health officials to track the potential spread and notify others who may have been infected and could go on to spread the disease further.
"We are not receiving the necessary cooperation when we contact those who are positive for COVID-19 or those who have been at some of these gatherings," Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, Rockland County's health commissioner said at a press briefing Wednesday.
She explained:
My staff has been told that a person does not wish to, or have to, speak to my disease investigators. They hang up. They deny being at the party even though we have found their name from another party attendee or a parent provides us with the information. Many do not answer their cell phones and do not call back. Sometimes parents answer for their adult children and promise that they have been home consistently when they have not been.
This must stop.
In response, Ruppert announced that the county will issue subpoenas to anyone who refuses to cooperate with contact tracing. So far, the county is processing eight subpoenas. In addition, those who do not comply will face civil fines of around $2,000 every day they are out of compliance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @12:40PM (11 children)
Really? You didn't study the constitution every year, and discuss it in depth, and what it means?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @12:49PM (10 children)
That's what you remember from studying the constitution?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @01:01PM (9 children)
That's what was drilled into me by all history teachers. Why did the colonies revolt, why the articles of confederation failed, the reasoning behind every clause of the constitution and the bill of rights - those were the questions we dealt with every year in US history. I was very much taught that blind nationalism is a bad thing and that we must all strive for democracy to work, and that it was our duty to grab the ammo box if the soap box stopped working.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @01:01PM (2 children)
* ballot box not soap
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @02:23PM (1 child)
Why that correction? Isn't it ballot box < soap box < ammo box ?
I.e. if you don't like the choices on your voting ballot, try to form your own movement before resorting to revolt? Or has your education successfully convinced you to never even try to take part in democratic society? Because you're right in the rest of your statement, blind nationalism is a bad thing and everyone must strive to make democracy work. That's why I'm surprised everyone is so eager to discard the "soap box" option, and play the
Trumpnationalist card instead.(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @02:26PM
If we were picking up the guns, you would know. I'm not a Trump supporter either, I'm a member of the fucking SEP!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @01:17PM (2 children)
Let me guess: You were educated in the south.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday July 06 2020, @01:28PM
I was taught this in the West as well. Maybe it's only in the large urban centers that they did not teach the core principals of the American system.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @01:35PM
Northern Midwest.
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Monday July 06 2020, @05:19PM (2 children)
I think you are confusing school with Rush Limbaugh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @05:53PM (1 child)
I think you're a kneejerking jackass, but it's cool. That's literally what I and many others were told in school. I don't see anything wrong with that, but I was mainly attempting to demonstrate the level of distrust of government inoculated into Americans from a young age. Where did you go to school, and what did they tell you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @11:36PM
I was most certainly taught the same as you were. I think far too many people were mind-numbed into becoming part of the Collective (herd?).
The only real reason to distrust government is: it's made of PEOPLE. People are imperfect. And, most importantly, try really hard (those of you who are mind-numbed) to think about the motivations of people who wish to be in power.