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With a disease that has such uncertainty over its spread, its long term effects, and its recovery, I think it's silly to be certain about what will restore trus

With a disease that has such uncertainty over its spread, its long term effects, and its recovery, I think it's silly to be certain about what will restore trust and how this will play out. to your suggestion, what is a contact tracing result look like? anonymized -> 53 persons tested positive today who had near contact with 204 persons? how does that restore trust? I can't imagine you meant non anonymized.

creaghpatr 6y ago
> With a disease that has such uncertainty over its spread, its long term effects, and its recovery, I think it's silly to be certain about what will restore trust and how this will play out. I see this comment a lot among friends and family, I call it ‘Blank-Checking’ because you can use it to basically shut down any argument, no questions asked.
- tux1968 6y ago
  Well since the discussion is about what it will take to convince people it's safe to go back to work, any proposed strategy will have to deal with that tendency.
ISL 6y ago
A sample template that I believe would go a long way to restoring trust: "Thursday in King County, contact tracers tracked cases from 301 of the 672 new cases identified Wednesday. They contacted and referred 5,000 people for quarantine and testing. Tuesday's contact tracing efforts identified 15% of the cases reported Wednesday, up from 5% a week ago. The number of contact tracers working in King County will expand from 300 to 1500 in the coming week. We continue to see a high volume of cases associated with the Home Depot on Aurora, the Wallingford QFC, and UW's fraternity row. If you have been to any of these places within the last two weeks, we encourage you to seek testing immediately. Testing is free, takes less than two minutes, and wait-times are less than ten minutes at most testing sites across Seattle. For more information, visit covid.seattle.gov or call 206-555-1212. Your assistance is deeply appreciated. The sooner we can contact-trace every case, the sooner we can stop the COVID-19 outbreak and return to life as normal." As daily reporting of this sort becomes part of the rhythm of life, it will both build trust and point the way for the community and government to reach to ~90%+ contact-tracing coverage. When full contact-tracing coverage is achieved, the case count can begin to drop rapidly. This fight can be won. Winning saves lives.

creaghpatr 6y ago

> With a disease that has such uncertainty over its spread, its long term effects, and its recovery, I think it's silly to be certain about what will restore trust and how this will play out. I see this comment a lot among friends and family, I call it ‘Blank-Checking’ because you can use it to basically shut down any argument, no questions asked.

tux1968 6y ago
Well since the discussion is about what it will take to convince people it's safe to go back to work, any proposed strategy will have to deal with that tendency.

ISL 6y ago

A sample template that I believe would go a long way to restoring trust: "Thursday in King County, contact tracers tracked cases from 301 of the 672 new cases identified Wednesday. They contacted and referred 5,000 people for quarantine and testing. Tuesday's contact tracing efforts identified 15% of the cases reported Wednesday, up from 5% a week ago. The number of contact tracers working in King County will expand from 300 to 1500 in the coming week. We continue to see a high volume of cases associated with the Home Depot on Aurora, the Wallingford QFC, and UW's fraternity row. If you have been to any of these places within the last two weeks, we encourage you to seek testing immediately. Testing is free, takes less than two minutes, and wait-times are less than ten minutes at most testing sites across Seattle. For more information, visit covid.seattle.gov or call 206-555-1212. Your assistance is deeply appreciated. The sooner we can contact-trace every case, the sooner we can stop the COVID-19 outbreak and return to life as normal." As daily reporting of this sort becomes part of the rhythm of life, it will both build trust and point the way for the community and government to reach to ~90%+ contact-tracing coverage. When full contact-tracing coverage is achieved, the case count can begin to drop rapidly. This fight can be won. Winning saves lives.