-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Jim Weller <=-

 JW> have public health people track down recent
 JW> contacts and test them while they self isolate

 ML> That is common sense with any feared infectious
 ML> disease at any time.

Sadly, it's not being done promptly or universally in your country.
We transferred civil servants with non-essential duties over to the
Health Dept and started tracing with the very first case in March.
For example a friend of mine's son is an economist in the finance
dept. doing long range forecasting and planning. He was shipped over
to Health the day after our first case was identified.

Maine was the first state to hire tracers. That wasn't until April 1st.
Other states followed suit at various speeds. But as late as June 26
Oklahoma didn't have enough staff doing that to reach everyone after
the flare up following that political rally in Tulsa.

 > cleared. Look at the numbers for Japan, Korea and New Zealand and
 > then do what they do. My jurisdiction has had no cases for the last
 > 120 days.

 ML> Exactly - our stated rules are more strict than Japan's and
 ML> Singapore's, and our stats are massively, bizarrely worse.

That is because your rules are not universally applied or enforced.

 ML> humans, and US ones most of all, have a streak that [is]
 ML> rebellious and contrarian

And that's one of the reasons why.

I hate to belabour the point but the numbers speak for themselves.
The American death count is up now to 173,000, by far the worst in
the entire wealthy industrialised world. With 1/9 the population we
have had 9000 which is still pretty bad compared to the countries I
mentioned earlier. More importantly you are loosing, on average,
1200 people per day while we are down to 10 a day in Canada.
 
 ML> Rule by any group that diminutes the freedom of any
 ML> other group is the worst tyranny.

In the case of public health emergencies it becomes necessary.



Cheers

Jim


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