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Here’s What Contact Tracing Will Likely Look Like in NYC

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  • nyc101
    Posted May 1, 2020 at 11:39 am

    By what legal authority? No one can be forced to give a list of contacts. No one can be forced to quarantine.

    • Jarrett Murphy
      Posted May 1, 2020 at 11:59 am

      I think that’s a very interesting point, NYC101 — I asked the same question. I think persuasion is the tool they use. However — and no one in power here in NYC has mentioned any plans along these lines that I know of, I’m just noting for context — the city can and has involuntarily committed non-compliant TB patients to hospitals. That policy originated in the early 1990s when drug-resistant TB and the HIV/AIDS crisis combined into a serious public-health problem.

      • nyc101
        Posted May 1, 2020 at 3:52 pm

        There’s just something about this that I just don’t like. The city needs to clarify the legal issues involved. This is why I will not be tested unless I feel I have symptoms.

        Was the TB quarantine a city or state law? Was it ever challenged in the courts? Is that how they put Typhoid Mary away back in the early 20th century?

        • Jarrett Murphy
          Posted May 1, 2020 at 4:32 pm

          Here’s something I wrote about it a couple years back. And here’s the Times article about the code revision that permits it. According to this journal article, state law has for a long time “permitted the Health Department to detain infected patients who were believed to be health hazards. In 1903 the city opened the Riverside Sanatorium for ‘wilfully careless consumptives under forcible detention.’ Not sure Mary Mallon was ever detained under a legitimate legal authority.

    • Nycnyc279184
      Posted May 8, 2020 at 10:41 pm

      If you’re contacted that you’ve been exposed to covid-19 then you stay home. Have a little compassion for your fellow Americans and try to save as many lives as you can, stop being so damn selfish.

      You want to ignore the warning and possibly infect more people who may die, or put more strain on health care worker that are risking their lives to help?

      The selfishness of Americans really makes me sick. Like quarantining for 14 days is really going to be that big of an issue for you and “stomping over your rights”. What about other people’s rights you’d be stomping all over by walking around while possibly infectious?

      • APerson
        Posted May 15, 2020 at 6:53 am

        Voluntary quarantine and isolation is one thing. Suggestions and advice and the government offering supplies to people voluntarilly is one thing. However, once it becomes mandatory and the government threatens to use force and penalties either civil or criminal, they have crossed the line and the people must not go along with it. You are right to want to see people protect others from it. But people can also put on a mask/face cover and they will not spread it. Do not support forced/mandatory isolation and quarantine.

  • Michael Braten
    Posted May 8, 2020 at 3:57 pm

    How does one sign up to be trained and be a contact racer?

  • SZ
    Posted May 19, 2020 at 12:17 am

    I would love to hear the stories of reactions of people that are contacted by these “Contact tracers” I have a feeling most of the answers will be a verbal middle finger”

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