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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, @04:47PM (5 children)
No details - but I was a guest at CHI St. Vincent in Hot Springs for a few days, about the same time. My impression was, it was almost business as usual. Of course, I wasn't exactly free to tour all of the hospital. Trauma and ER seemed a bit slow, probably as a result of fewer people being out and about, doing crazy things. Otherwise, most everything seemed pretty routine and normal.
I only met one Karen who got upset that I wasn't complying with the mask BS. ;^)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 06 2020, @09:23PM
Now this is a first. What have you done with the Real Runaway1956?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @06:21PM (3 children)
Lookit this boomer trying to reclaim Karen, truly a Chad of epic proportions. Throw in some "hospital wasn't busy COVID is a hoax" stupidity and you are peak boomboom.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 07 2020, @07:23PM (2 children)
Hiya, Karen. No, I'm not trying to reclaim you. If you can't get along with that meth head you ran off with, you're on your own!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2020, @02:40AM (1 child)
Ok boomer*
* who taught Runaway meme lingo?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 08 2020, @09:27AM
Hopefully not the same person that tried to teach him occupational safety, and failed.