[Goose]

No, it isn't even that hard. It is much more like garbage collection. It is well understood, totally necessary, and requires a significant but not gigantic staff to do the work.

Well, it is not helping that public health workers are being threatened.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/am...story.html



We are our own worst enemy.



BC

Amen! This is an area where the county supervisors/commissioners/whatever have to stand up and give the public the "bad" news. The county health department has lots of legal power, and the county will back them up. You will be arrested and charged if you don't cooperate. Unfortunately (IMHO) the political operators in most counties are keeping the mouths tightly shut on the subject. Worse still, many county health offices have elected not to actually enforce their quarantine requests. "Don't ask, don't tell" of another sort is in full flower. I don't know to what extent compliance is a problem, but I do know that if nobody checks, it is unlikely compliance will be very good, especially for contacts that are feeling fine and see no reason not to live normally. Maybe that is why track and trace is approached without much urgency. If we aren't going to actually use the results, why bother?

[Goose]

No, it isn't even that hard. It is much more like garbage collection. It is well understood, totally necessary, and requires a significant but not gigantic staff to do the work.

Well, it is not helping that public health workers are being threatened.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/am...story.html



We are our own worst enemy.



BC

Amen! This is an area where the county supervisors/commissioners/whatever have to stand up and give the public the "bad" news. The county health department has lots of legal power, and the county will back them up. You will be arrested and charged if you don't cooperate. Unfortunately (IMHO) the political operators in most counties are keeping the mouths tightly shut on the subject. Worse still, many county health offices have elected not to actually enforce their quarantine requests. "Don't ask, don't tell" of another sort is in full flower. I don't know to what extent compliance is a problem, but I do know that if nobody checks, it is unlikely compliance will be very good, especially for contacts that are feeling fine and see no reason not to live normally. Maybe that is why track and trace is approached without much urgency. If we aren't going to actually use the results, why bother?