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

mb504 said
I know that you guys mean well and are defending the mayor's contact tracing idea in good faith, and I've been drinking Modelo Especials since 6 pm because of a faux American ethnic "holiday," but the idea of businesses logging every customer who enters their premises for any reason and providing that information to the government is about as creepy as it gets. If I owned a business I would tell the mayor to pound sand. Once the government deputizes private business owners to stop citizens and collect information on its behalf I check out. Y'all are going to turn me into an insufferable libertarian butt crevasse.

It isn't meant to be provided to the government. It's meant to be provided to hospitals if and when they need to inform people about potential exposure. If the city or NOPD start collecting the lists then you may have reason to be concerned. But as of now the only thing the city has done is tell businesses they need to keep these logs because it's in the public interest, and I would expect any business to tell the city the lists will only be provided to medical professionals.