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posted by martyb on Monday July 06 2020, @08:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the a-snitch-in-time-saves-nine dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Flamebait) by Phoenix666 on Monday July 06 2020, @01:37PM (4 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday July 06 2020, @01:37PM (#1017018) Journal

    The key element here is cooperation. People who understand that this is a problem and that they have to work together to combat it. It simply is a matter of putting the common good over "muh freedumz".

    If you think that "putting the common good over 'muh freedumz'" is the guiding principal of European civilization, then you could only have gotten an F- in history. "muh freedumz" is a specific reaction to European history and an attempt to correct the dysfunctional, murderous tendencies of your "glorious" civilization.

    I am fond of Europe, but it, too, is populated by imperfect humans who are no more sophisticated than others elsewhere.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Opportunist on Monday July 06 2020, @10:22PM (3 children)

    by Opportunist (5545) on Monday July 06 2020, @10:22PM (#1017359)

    Then I guess our quality is that we apparently are capable of learning from the mistakes of our past and not repeat them instead of celebrating them.

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 07 2020, @07:47AM

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday July 07 2020, @07:47AM (#1017530) Homepage
      A wrongthink that many Americans seem to be completely addicted to is that they appear oblivious to the time dimension. Not only do they not want anything to change - tha clock having stopped in the late C18, they seem incapable of understanding that others not only desire it, but actually achieve it.
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    • (Score: 3, Touché) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday July 07 2020, @11:45AM (1 child)

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday July 07 2020, @11:45AM (#1017562) Journal

      Ugh. Please. The conceit from many Europeans that they're all smart and everybody else is stupid, especially Americans, is so tedious and so easily disproved. How many world wars were started in Europe in the 20th century? Not one, you say, but two? Yup, sure seems like Europeans are so much better at learning from their mistakes than others.

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      • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Wednesday July 08 2020, @08:16PM

        by Opportunist (5545) on Wednesday July 08 2020, @08:16PM (#1018362)

        WW2 was the continuation of WW1 after a 20 years ceasefire. Clemenceau wanted to render Germany harmless and unable to ever pose a threat to France again, that idea sure as hell backfired badly. But hey, we learned from that mistake, too, and the new idea was that the Germans got their economy so deeply entangled with the French that any attempt to go to war with them would be essentially economic suicide and, guess what, that worked like a charm (that was the kernel of what later became the EU, and take a wild guess who the two "master" of the EU are...).

        So yes, Europe does learn from history. We learned that war ain't getting us anywhere, but if we throw our economy together we can again rule the world.