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People who think "The Dance" is going to work -- Has anyone seen any signs of any of these things in the US?


In a MercuryNews interview with Sara Cody, she said of Wuhan-style contact tracing:

“We can’t use that same strategy” due to short staffing, said Cody. “Trying to map and figure out where are some hotspots for transmission — we really don’t have the data to enable us to do that. That’s still a pretty fuzzy part of the picture.”

Welcome to the club. I have been asking this question for at least a week in my various posts.

"All" America has to do is:

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I can't agree at all with you logic. I do agree that the Federal Government is not at all prepared to do contact tracing, testing, and mitigation in Santa Clara County. I do agree with essentially all you have said about the response at the federal level, particularly the POTUS. However, the USPHS was never tasked or funded to do nationwide pandemic contact tracing in every state and county. It has always been a county responsibility. The fact that Santa Clara County (and the other counties) can't do it isn't on the POTUS, whoever that is. It is on the Board of Supervisors and Sara Cody. If she has a plan but doesn't have a budget, speak up. I think she will get what she wants at this point. Any federal response at this point would take too long to organize. It needs to be grass roots or it isn't happening.

IMHO, the counties should be training up all firemen and police, including auxiliaries, as fast as they can to do this work. Pay overtime as needed and use computer based training (which I am pretty sure already exists) to do it in order to do as much social distancing as possible. If that isn't enough people, ask Newsom to detail as many National Guard MPs as he can spare to be trained. Don't use medical people, because they may be needed elsewhere. Do what we need to do, but don't just sit there waiting on somebody else to save us. "They" can't do so even if they were well led. The Bay Area Counties have already shown they can cooperate by a joint declaration for shelter-in-place. They should establish an agreement to share contact information. We aren't helpless, but we have to realize that it is up to Santa Clara County to take care of Santa Clara County. We may get a little help from the State and money from the Federal Government, but that's all we are going to get.

[Goose]

People who think "The Dance" is going to work -- Has anyone seen any signs of any of these things in the US?


In a MercuryNews interview with Sara Cody, she said of Wuhan-style contact tracing:

“We can’t use that same strategy” due to short staffing, said Cody. “Trying to map and figure out where are some hotspots for transmission — we really don’t have the data to enable us to do that. That’s still a pretty fuzzy part of the picture.”

Welcome to the club. I have been asking this question for at least a week in my various posts.

"All" America has to do is:

<snip>

I can't agree at all with you logic. I do agree that the Federal Government is not at all prepared to do contact tracing, testing, and mitigation in Santa Clara County. I do agree with essentially all you have said about the response at the federal level, particularly the POTUS. However, the USPHS was never tasked or funded to do nationwide pandemic contact tracing in every state and county. It has always been a county responsibility. The fact that Santa Clara County (and the other counties) can't do it isn't on the POTUS, whoever that is. It is on the Board of Supervisors and Sara Cody. If she has a plan but doesn't have a budget, speak up. I think she will get what she wants at this point. Any federal response at this point would take too long to organize. It needs to be grass roots or it isn't happening.

IMHO, the counties should be training up all firemen and police, including auxiliaries, as fast as they can to do this work. Pay overtime as needed and use computer based training (which I am pretty sure already exists) to do it in order to do as much social distancing as possible. If that isn't enough people, ask Newsom to detail as many National Guard MPs as he can spare to be trained. Don't use medical people, because they may be needed elsewhere. Do what we need to do, but don't just sit there waiting on somebody else to save us. "They" can't do so even if they were well led. The Bay Area Counties have already shown they can cooperate by a joint declaration for shelter-in-place. They should establish an agreement to share contact information. We aren't helpless, but we have to realize that it is up to Santa Clara County to take care of Santa Clara County. We may get a little help from the State and money from the Federal Government, but that's all we are going to get.