COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

Brennan77 said

I know what it's called. I'm just not sure why it's not more terrifying than dying on a ventilator to you. And I'm not exaggerating. I do not want to live in that sort of world and I will do everything in my power to ensure my daughters don't grow up in it either. I've never been hyper political, trending toward the philosophical ideals myself. But I will not willfully participate in a violation of my family's inherent rights. The mayor of New Orleans does not need to trace my every move and I'll lose everything I have to leave the city before complying with that sort of shirt.

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I get that it’s offensive to you and I’m not gonna tell you that’s a bad reaction - I get it. It’s powerful.

I do wonder, though, what purpose you’re so concerned about? New Orleans is barely functional as it is, including law enforcement - how is it going to somehow turn into some efficient gestapo because Walgreen’s keeps a log of customers? At most, it’s likely to trigger a push alert and possibly a phone call with a recorded message that you may have been exposed and should report any symptoms.

Like I said earlier, I have my doubts about the effectiveness of contact tracing at this point anyway - but it is a legitimate outbreak response tool, implementing it doesn’t imply some fascist alternative/unstated objective of subjugation.