Here’s one way - inside most State borders, as we cross from one to another, is a welcome center.
Close off the highway so ALL the traffic has to route through the welcome center parking lot, where your license plate will be read to ensure you’re from a state that has a tracking program.
If you’re from a State without such a program, the driver and passengers all to have temps taken. Any abnormal gets a swab and they’re sent back where they came from .
Now, THAT’S a program I could get behind.
Something similar with airports too with passengers coming from non-tracking States.
“As more states push to reopen their economies, many are falling short on one of the federal government’s essential criteria for doing so — having an efficient system to track people who have been physically near a person infected with the coronavius.”
Actually they are falling short on ALL the government’s essential criteria—or at least Georgia is. There is supposed to have been a downward trajectory in new cases for at least 14 days. And there is supposed to be adequate testing.
The maddening thing about this is how Trump gutted the entire government and is now sitting on his hands rather than let what was once a superpower show how super it is by handling this rationally. I would gladly bet one thousand dollars that during the Obama administration and for as long as the CDC existed there’ve been contingency plans to do exactly this. No sane person would let the federal government sit idly by as a patchwork of states tried to take on a national-level problem. It’s unheard-of. You might as well parcel out the space program. It’s crazy. This is happening because Trump is corrupt and mentally ill and he’s made the entire government corrupt and irrational. If they could, the GOP would let us die; that’s the level of nihilism they’ve reached. The virus, at least, is even-handed—it’ll kill you no matter how you vote.
Yes. It’s pretty easy to demand businesses reopen when it’s not your ass on the front lines. And because you’ve also asked for legislation “immunizing” you from lawsuits from employees who contract the disease.
See…who said this Administration can’t do “vaccinations”? Of course, it’s only for rich people’s pocketbooks, not actual people.
In a year, after President Biden is in office and starting a 50-state contact tracing program will we make any meaningful progress. So, in essence, Trump didn’t just waste two months; he’ll have wasted an entire year. That goes for the economy as well.
Actually we have that in Pennsylvania but I’m not hearing much talk about easing anything. The regulations are in place until May 8. They might do some minimal stuff after that. Just this week they opened the busiest state-run liquor stores to curbside service. You call and make your order and pay for it, then drive up, show ID through the window and pop your trunk. Nobody shares any breathing space. A tidy arrangement, I think. To the extent you can come close to guaranteeing a safe interaction, I think we’ll see more of that. No idea what we’re doing on tracking. The legislature’s dominated by GOP buttholes so that doesn’t help.
As I noted elsewhere this morning - there really isn’t any assurance that there even is such a thing as herd immunity since it is still an open question whether you can be reinfected and get sick again.
The G7 and G20 countries are banding together to find common COVID-19 solutions and share data. They aren’t bothering to include the US in their collaboration, because … well, we know why.
This is one of the first signs that we have been toppled from the pedestal we formerly occupied. No one thinks of us as “leader of the free world” anymore.
If Trump were not POTUS, many of the aspects of COVID and its effects on the economy could be turned into opportunities for work with proper protection, testing, tracing and spacing S.O.P…as well as using what we know about supply, communication and transportation
We haven’t been toppled. We’re just considered to be on an extended medical leave while we deal with the demented uncle, that’s why they’re not bothering us for a bit.
