You Don’t Need Invasive Tech for Successful Contact Tracing. Here’s How It Works. | Talking Points Memo

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This is a very important point:
“This narrative has emerged that either we lift all our social distancing measures and let the virus burn through the population, or we hunker down at home forever and let the economy collapse, but that is a false choice,” said Dr. Crystal Watson, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health…
The same thing goes for using easy-to-perform protective measures like using masks in close contact. Those wishing to make political hay of this experience know this, but prefer the simple binary choice to rile up the ignorant or intellectually lazy.

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There was more time spent researching and writing this article than the TRump administration has spent actually trying to help make contact tracing a reality - by a factor of 10. I guess it is good to know what we should be doing so we can compare it to the fiasco that is actually happening.

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