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Mixed feelings.
The California governor says his tracing is completely anonymous. From what I understand he was tracing where people were congregating to forecast where outbreaks are likely. I can see the value in this. Someone has a 100 person church service, or a 100 person party, it might be a good idea to keep an eye on the areas.
Most of the contact tracing being talked about is for when someone is positive for COVID19 a person will call and follow up asking where they have been the last 14 days, and then call and test contacts. I’m completely in favor of this, I think they should adhere to HIPAA laws with the knowledge that obviously individuals might deduce on their own who they had contact with. I have said in my community I would volunteer to make calls. Whether or not you can force someone to answer by some government mandate is a different thing, I think no matter what it’s just honor system that people will sf report to the best of their memory. If someone was sick and had worked two days before at my supermarket I would want the supermarket notified. Whether to force employees to be tested or to post a health notice somewhere to the general public is more iffy in my mind.
Then there is the kind of tracing that is done electronically that some Asian countries are using. I’m not sure how and if it’s different than California? There is an app I think. You allow yourself to be traced, so I guess you can opt out, but opting in means you can be deemed low risk assuming you have been in low risk situation. If you can opt in and out I guess that’s ok. It’s imperfect obviously. People can just leave their phone home.
My governor, Florida, says they have been doing tracing all along and will continue to. I have no idea the depth or breadth of the tracing. I know since early March Florida publishes daily every single positive by county, which includes, gender, age, date of testing, if they traveled and where, if they are a Florida resident. I don’t know if all states do this. I don’t know what other questions they are asking that are not being put into the public record, and I don’t know what specific follow up is done regarding the answers and what possible changes they might make going forward.