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It is absolutely obvious (at least to me) that lots of personal visits to the home of people who test positive will be needed. This situation should finally demonstrate to the FCC why unsolicited robo-calls are destructive and must be eliminated. They make what once was an almost universally reliable form of communication useless. People just won't answer. It will require more people, but if the telephone call doesn't work, send someone to visit.

This excellent article makes the same argument using syphilis contact tracing from the 50s as an example.  You can't just expect everybody to cooperate--you need contact tracing systems (and contact tracers--a point no one discusses) that are up to the job.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/sunda...acing.html

This was obvious to me, you, and a lot of other people well before the contact tracing systems were put into place. Why have we done this so badly?

[burger]

It is absolutely obvious (at least to me) that lots of personal visits to the home of people who test positive will be needed. This situation should finally demonstrate to the FCC why unsolicited robo-calls are destructive and must be eliminated. They make what once was an almost universally reliable form of communication useless. People just won't answer. It will require more people, but if the telephone call doesn't work, send someone to visit.

This excellent article makes the same argument using syphilis contact tracing from the 50s as an example.  You can't just expect everybody to cooperate--you need contact tracing systems (and contact tracers--a point no one discusses) that are up to the job.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/sunda...acing.html

This was obvious to me, you, and a lot of other people well before the contact tracing systems were put into place. Why have we done this so badly?