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> Whether we have the capacity to investigate all COVID-19 cases and trace all of their contacts, isolating those who test positive and quarantining the people
by discgolf187 6y ago
> Whether we have the capacity to investigate all COVID-19 cases and trace all of their contacts, isolating those who test positive and quarantining the people who may have been exposed.
We're all going to be inside for a long time ...
- vkou 6y agoWe have 20 million unemployed Americans, many of whom are currently getting paid to sit at home and play Animal Crossing. Surely, a well-functioning society would figure out how to employ some of them to be contact tracers. Why hasn't this happened yet?
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- baggy_trough 6y agoState incompetence at all levels.
- vkou 6y agoWhat makes you think that to be the cause? Surely, in a country with over four thousand state, county, and major city governments, there have to be a few who are competent. Voters across so many different regions, across so many different levels of government, can't be so consistently incapable of electing competent officials. There has to be more to this.
- paxys 6y agoYou are touching upon a real problem here. America hasn't had excess labor for decades now, and so there are no systems in place to rapidly mobilize it. Governments in countries like China and India can scale from zero to millions of temporary employees for any project or effort in a matter of days. Even if San Francisco wants to pay people to stand at every intersection of the city and conduct tests, it will be months before they can even fill out the employment forms and finalize the logistics.
- op00to 6y agoYes and they scale that way by ignoring safety regulations.
- mdszy 6y agoWhy do you believe it's necessary for someone to perform labor in order to be allowed to live?
- op00to 6y agoJesus said so in the Bible.
- vkou 6y agoI have no issue with UI benefits, or equivalents thereof. I have no issue with the current extension of UI benefits. But I do have issue with the claim that we could never hire enough contact tracers... 1. In the middle of a massive surge of unemployment. 2. When we are already paying millions of people to... Sit around, and do nothing. The need for workers exists, the money to pay them exists, the workers exist, and some of them actually want to work. Why can't we put those four things together?
- usaar333 6y agoWe're more or less already there: https://abc7news.com/bay-area-coronavirus-update-california-shelter-in-place-lockdown/6111689/ https://abc7news.com/bay-area-coronavirus-update-california-...