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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 06 2020, @04:37PM (3 children)
I posted above.
You have the virus. You refuse to cooperate in tracing how you got the virus. You're guilty of something. It's just so wrong. It's not like they are going to imprison you for admitting you talked to an attractive member of the opposite sex at a party. Or, even for talking to a member of the same sex, right?
You've got it. Cooperate now, and maybe save some lives.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @08:18PM (2 children)
Poor simpleton Runaway. Let me try to explain in terms you will understand. No, you are not guilty of something, you are a clear and present danger, whether you intend it or not, whether you were stupid or negligent in becoming so. You are like a dog, a dog with Hydrophobia! Doesn't matter how the dog contracted rabies, we shoot down the mad dog in the middle of the road under the noon day sun. Not in the head, though, to preserve the brain for post-mortuum testing. This is what needs to be done with the party-goers. Neutralize the threat.
Of course, if the mad dog attempts to run away, they become "a double down bad mad dog", and they are guilty of something.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 06 2020, @08:27PM (1 child)
Under the noon day sun? How much tolerance is there on the noon part of that? Like, are silver bullets needed if the moon is out? Maybe explosive bullets if it's more than an hour before or after noon? And, how about the middle of the road? If he won't be coaxed into the road, maybe I can just hope that the ancients had a road where the dog is at? This is getting complicated now - a lot like magic!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @09:20PM
"Only mad dogs and Runaway go out in the noonday sun." Rudyard Kipling, modified for context. My god you're stupid, Runaway! Nice attempt at deflection, though. "Silver Bullets"? The Donald in his Lone Ranger Mask?