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you too, nice to have you

artappraiser — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:03:48 +0000

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you too, nice to have you back hanging around

Andrew Yang:

artappraiser — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 22:38:49 +0000

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Andrew Yang:

The coronavirus doesn’t care if you’re tired of the coronavirus.
— Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) June 21, 2020

Okay, Arta. Good to see ya.

barefooted — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 22:25:40 +0000

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Okay, Arta. Good to see ya.

it's "political" in that it's

artappraiser — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 21:54:44 +0000

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it's "political" in that it's incompetently set up, as is very typical with all NYC government which has been extra dysfunctional under the DeBlasio administration

....The city’s program has so far been limited by a low response rate, scant use of technology, privacy concerns and a far less sweeping mandate than that in some other countries, where apartment buildings, stores, restaurants and other private businesses are often required to collect visitors’ personal information, which makes tracking the spread easier.

China, South Korea and Germany and other countries have set up extensive tracking programs that have helped officials make major strides in reducing the outbreak....

It is clearly going to be a useless employment of 3,000 people! 3,000 salaries, thrown away money.

Broken bureaucracy, sometimes outright thieving bureaucracy is the story of the NYC Democratic party machine. It is why a very blue city voted for Republican/Independent mayors for 5 terms. Nothing works unless someone is constantly riding their ass and making them do things wisely and efficiently.

This is a tweet that links to

barefooted — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 21:35:12 +0000

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This is a tweet that links to a NYT piece that most can't read in whole without a subscription.

The issue is not political:

Only 35 percent of the 5,347 city residents who tested positive or were presumed positive for the coronavirus in the program’s first two weeks gave information about close contacts to tracers, the city said in releasing the first statistics. The number ticked up slightly, to 42 percent, during the third week, Avery Cohen, a spokeswoman to Mayor Bill de Blasio, said on Sunday.

oh surprise surprise surprise

artappraiser — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 21:23:57 +0000

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oh surprise surprise surprise NOT:

The first statistics from New York City’s contact-tracing program, which began on June 1, indicate that tracers are often unable to locate infected people or gather information from them https://t.co/UdBTNWNd1h
— NYT Metro (@NYTMetro) June 21, 2020

It's the classic Dem machine thing! Make lotsa jobs, make taxpayers pay, get: NOTHING. (Chirlane is a specialist in this, BTW.)

sigh

artappraiser — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 05:30:17 +0000

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sigh

NYC COVID-19 Contact Tracers Not Asking About George Floyd Protest Participation, Despite Fears of New Virus Wave

by Greg B. Smith @ TheCity.nyc, June 14

Over the two last weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio and others have voiced concerns that packed police brutality protests across the city could trigger a new wave of COVID-19 infections.

Whether or not that’s the case, however, remains unknown — and de Blasio’s team won’t be directly trying to find out.

The hundreds of contact tracing workers hired by the city under de Blasio’s new “test and trace” campaign have been instructed not to ask anyone who’s tested positive for COVID-19 whether they recently attended a demonstration, City Hall confirmed to THE CITY.

“No person will be asked proactively if they attended a protest,” Avery Cohen, a spokesperson for de Blasio, wrote in an emailed response to questions by THE CITY.

Instead, test-and-trace workers ask COVID-positive individuals general questions to help them “recall ‘contacts’ and individuals they may have exposed,” Cohen said. Among the initial questions: “Do you live with anyone in your home?”

Tracers then ask about “close contacts” — defined as being within six feet of another person for at least 10 minutes.

It’s up to tested individuals to volunteer whether any of those close contacts occurred during protests. “If a person wants to proactively offer that information, there is an opportunity for them to do so,” Cohen wrote [....]

Florida’s Covid-19 surge

artappraiser — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 03:42:09 +0000

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Florida’s Covid-19 surge shows the state's reopening plan is not working

As counties end the second week of Governor Ron DeSantis’ ‘safe, smart, step-by-step’ policy, the state marks a record high in daily case

by Richard Luscombe reporting from Miami @ TheGuardian.com, June 20

the contrast between these

artappraiser — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 03:34:00 +0000

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the contrast between these Arizona and New Mexico stats is kinda mind boggling. Admit I haven't gone into the "why?"

“Since last Sunday, 20% of the reported tests in Arizona have come back positive”. https://t.co/F59yu9mADR
— Dr. Saskia Popescu (@SaskiaPopescu) June 21, 2020

I don't think people realize

artappraiser — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 03:37:03 +0000

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I don't think people realize what a tragedy this is, how many lives it will cost, how many people will unnecessarily have chronic health problems for the rest of their lives because of this, and how it will damage America for decades to come. https://t.co/erjKB7SWIj
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) June 19, 2020