The State of California announced the launch of a public awareness campaign for the state’s COVID-19 case investigation program.
The “California Connected” public awareness campaign — which will include radio and social media ads, billboards and videos in multiple languages — is intended to get state residents to “answer the call” when their local public health department reaches out to recruit them as a contact tracer, according to Governor Gavin Newsom.
“That simple action of answering the call could save lives and help keep our families and communities healthy,” Newsom said.
Newsom has said the state hopes to train roughly 20,000 contact tracers by the first week of July.
California is using contact tracing to connect with people who are COVID-19 positive, so they can figure out who they might have exposed without knowing it, so those individuals can be contacted, too.
Nope. Still will not answer the call or my door if you contact me for tracing. Newscum can pound sand.
Such a bad move.
@ILP
Why? Cause I will not comply with something that violates my privacy, my life? Sorry, when Newscum abolished the 60 day limit on a state emergency on day 1 tells me a lot about what this scum is about. I have nothing to hide, but I will not be subjected to testing unless it is my choice. My children will not be tested. This is not Germany during WW2, this is supposed to be AMERICA where we have freedom and choices.
Truth be told!!! His petty pansy priorities have been revealed: his Napa Valley (which is wide open where he has his wineries), his hair which is entitled to cuts while the rest of us grow like weeds and his undocumented friends who continue to prop up their fruits stands while also blowing allergens, noisy disruption and (as the experts say) airborne viruses into our yards with their disgusting machinery and smog-polluting ready-to-fall apart trucks. Not to mention Gav’s travel as he splits time back and forth between California and Montana, his daughter’s namesake. Valuing equality and not liberty makes no sense. Pelosi should be the first to try to reform nursing homes since she’s one foot in the grave.
“Answer the call” used to be synonymous with “kick the bucket”, euphemismistically speaking. Just sayin’.
An how are they gonna filter out wanna be cop washouts from having their ultimate Kojak fantasy experience ? ? ?
Think this is going to turn out to be a very BAD idea.
An for you youngsters,
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Over 2 months to now figure that this might be helpful. Guess the state was more concerned with releasing prisoners and giving money to illegals. They should promote public awareness of CA’s demise with the decades of past inept mismanagement that continues…
Exactly. Why is this happening so slowly? It boggles the mind. Millions of people out of work, lots of state and county employees idled, and the training is like 40 hours. Yet we’re not going to hit our target until July? Why on earth didn’t all this happen six weeks ago? We could youhave hired or onboarded 40,000 people by now, with hotels in every town dedicated to optional housing for confirmed cases so it doesn’t spread so much within households. The economy is bleeding out, with long-term effects that nobody knows how to measure or predict, and we’re waiting six to eight weeks longer than necessary to do the easy part. It’s hard to ramp up testing if everybody in the world wants the same tests. It was hard to buy PPE for the same reason. It’s hard to manage unpredictable demands on hospitals. It’s NOT hard to hire or build a volunteer force to do contact tracing. literally every credit let plan for re-opening has made clear that we would need this for the past eight weeks or more. This is a disgrace.
so spending hundreds of thousands of tax money to make people volunteer for the cover up scandal and scare tactic ….
so a generational easily manipulate propaganda gang secretly tracking people
yeah wow your money being used by the dem gov for their own purpose of gathering information to use against us
his own words full of disguise and lacking information and very vague as to how this information will be handled and controlled and destroyed
“That simple action of answering the call( could )save lives and help keep our families and communities healthy,” Newsom said.
lets have a drinking game of when a post by any dem includes…. families and communities
since that is the last thing the democrat politicians are doing or concerned about
nothing they have done has benefited families or community
they always use terms to separate communities
and always promote laws to make families fodder for criminals and bums …as well as taking away resources for OUR children and giving to illegals and criminals
anytime a democrat speaks what ever they say is usually the opposite ..the other times they are pushing for tax hikes
just pay attention
and still this question remains unanswered
how has the 40+ year regime of democrat control benefitted you and your families
are you more successful
are your children better schooled
are the places you live well maintained by the city
is your business thriving and being supported by local politicians
has the regime improved your wage or educated you children so they can make a better has the regime made it easier to succeed by endorsing your business as a great reason to come to the city
has the city
I’m pretty sure people will be voting with their middle fingers. If I use both hands does that constitute ballot-stuffing?
service guarantees citizenship
Would you like to learn more?
! He can trace his own happy ass !!!
The last paragraph of this entry is concerning. It says “California IS using contact tracing … with people who have tested positive so that they can figure out who they might have exposed without knowing it, so those individuals can be contacted too.” Did I miss something? I understand asking people who have tested positive to notify family, friends, and neighbors, just in case. But when/how did it get to, “who they might have exposed without knowing it” and “so those individuals can be contacted too”.? Am I reading more into this than there is? How do they know who they “might have exposed without knowing it”? How do the tracers have contact info for these “individuals” that the patient does not know? For years, there have been notifications on the news about anonymous patients who tested positive for hepatitis — followed by, ‘if you visited this restaurant (or store or whatever), you may need to be tested’. That type of notification is fine with me. I’m not onboard with any Bluetooth tracking of our movements and contacts so those “individuals can be contacted too”. That is too creepy for me!!
It just means they didn’t know they were contagious, and may have infected them while incubating the disease or while asymptomatic. I agree that involuntary tracing via technology is not ok. But that’s not what the sentence means.
20,000 more govt employees and where is the money coming for that??? And on a side note…..what happened to all the civil liberties the left was screaming about when law enforcement wanted to use LPR (license plate readers) at choke points in a city and even facial recognition….I am sure I could think of a couple more if i thought about it…
Coming from a tax increase near you.
Are we really in a financial position to be starting new programs right now?
If this can get us out of lockdown and keep us out, it would be worth it to hire five times that many. The disgrace is that we don’t have this ready to go by now.
@Led I understand your frustration but you should understand the constitutional implications of what they are talking will keep it from becoming a reality. As I understand tracing could have helped at the onset, it’s pretty pointless as this is in every county, state and country by now. Basically all they can do is test and treat the ill. Still waiting on hard science as far as incubation time and how contagious it actually is. Just 2 days ago they said it’s not as bad as they thought on surfaces. Probably best to stay calm and wait for the data to justify throwing our rights out the window because some people act like we can’t live life without this. I can see it drug out in court for a long time so we better start thinking about working with what we got now.
11,903 confirmed cases in Bay Area
7,738,378 population in Bay Area
11,903 / 7,738,378 = 0.0015%
11903 is 0.15% of 7,738,378
Is it though?
Percent means per hundred.
Therefore 11,903/7.738.378 = 0.001538 = 0.1538%
Another term all the internet ‘math experts’ seem to not realize is a “variable” in a math equation, which there are plenty of in all these virus scenarios.
Why don’t they do contact tracing for AIDS?
@googler, good point ! And Dr. doom and gloom Fauci was in charge of that “pandemic” as well. He didnt shut down the economy then. Oh wait , Trump wasn’t president then . So Gates , Bloomberg and Soros gave the ok not to shut down !
Get your facts straight. They did and still do contract tracing for aids. This is one of the to they use to control the spread of the disease.
@America, Well, HIV/AIDS isn’t commonly spread in workplaces. If HIV is spreading rapidly through your workplace, it might be time to look for a different career field. 🙂
The only contact tracing I will agree to do is finding out who has been cutting slick Gavin’s hair these past few months.
@ DVC Student: excellent information. Your statistics prove beyond a doubt that this COVID19 fiasco is simply a social-experiment implemented to track us and restrict us further through more and more draconian measures. Thank you for using critical-thinking and common-sense, two attributes greatly lacking in most people today.
Isn’t “contact tracing” a violation of the right to PRIVACY and a good example of SPYING?
Of course it is.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the property to be seized
How can you all be so opposed to trying to inform others they were exposed and need to get a test?! Both conservatives and liberals who grasp the basics of epidemiology understand the importance of this.
I was traced and contacted that I was on a flight with a positive person (they didn’t say who it was) and 5 days later I was very sick. That allowed me to get a test right away, which was difficult at the time. Luckily after the call I knew to isolate and not expose others. That was March, and I’m still positive and quarantined. The health department asked me about who I may have been in contact with and asked no personal information. I was happy to try to inform others they were at risk (you don’t always know who they are). You don’t have to answer a question you think is invasive.
Don’t have a knee jerk rebellious rejection of known ways to slow the virus and help others.
If I hadn’t been contacted I very well could have infected you before my symptoms became bad.
You are absolutely correct. I am afraid so many are using the tracing idea as a political issue. Many poor folks actually believe their personal rights are being violated if they must comply to the mandates of COVID19. Like having to wear a mask. They actually think it us their right to expose others to the virus. They blame the authorities not the virus. So as a result these people also believe being traced is violating their privacy. They are self centered selfish reactive people. Very disturbing. They still may think the virus is not that dangerous. Ugh!!
So let’s see, you got very sick 5 days after being around someone. (Im assuming it was Covid19). You got tested in March for something. Now at the end of May you are not sick yet still testing positive and are in “quarantine” correct? So you’re in quarantine for 2 months now, not sick but testing positive for what I assume Covid. So theoretically after recovering from the sickness, you could remain quarantined for the rest of your life if you never test negative. I’m not really sure that’s inline with the data and science on this matter, but very interesting story. Thanks for sharing.
This is the line that really got me wondering:
“don’t have a knee jerk reaction of known ways to slow the virus and help others. If I hadn’t been contacted I very well could have infected you before my symptoms became bad”
It appears with those 2 statements you attempt to not only shame those who reject the concept, but almost threaten (but not really) others into submitting to fear. Very calculated wording with very intent messaging.
The whole story is questionable to begin with, followed up with hardline propaganda in a classically scripted narrative.
@Smee – I agree with you about being contacted after a flight, if someone onboard tested positive. The airlines already has your name and email address. But I do not like the idea of Bluetooth contact tracing apps on phones like they’re using in China and South Korea. I know, I know, we’re always on camera and our phones are already tracking all of our whereabouts and purchases. The lockdown is bad enough. An app tracking us during this virus is just too much. I wouldn’t install it.
Popcorn, the reason you argue with emotion is because it can’t be done legally. The reason we have the Constitution is to shut down irrational appeals to somehow give up our rights for the greater good. It is not selfish to point out that a group of people refuse to acknowledge the constitution even exists. You have the freedom to communicate in whatever fashion you choose BECAUSE of the constitution. Make no mistake about it, the argument based in emotion is a ploy to subvert the law.
And its Sam for the score. I am not buying the “Smee” story. It is too convenient and too much phrasing that sound like a public service message: “positive person” “allowed me” “I knew to” “not expose others” “asked no personal information” and so on in addition to Sam’s critique. Communist China has what is called the 50 Cent Party (see Wikipedia) which are people paid by the government to do social media posting to influence public opinion. Is that where we are now? Sad.
Sam, sorry you think my story is suspect. It’s all quite true. And until this last week my xrays showed my covid pneumonia was still quite bad so that’s why the long quarantine. Im hoping this weeks covid test will come back negative as I finally feel better. I know many others in my essential industry with similar stories. Sorry my story doesn’t align with your concept of the illness.
As far as being hard line propaganda, you’re hardly right. I would likely not agree to a bluetooth app on my phone. But I am probably one of the few commenting that have been on both ends of the tracing. Is was not invasive or asking/revealing any personal information, as is often implied by the angry responses. I’m glad I was traced and contacted and glad the hotel staff and others I was in contact with were contacted. I actually care about others not getting sick and stopping this virus. It’s horrible.
50 cent army. If you read message boards and are under the impression they aren’t infected with the 50 cent army or a similar American version, I have a bridge to sell you. This is what creative writing is used for in the real world. Propaganda
Wow, Smee! I’m glad to hear you’re recovering. I sincerely hope you will be able to return to your Pre COVID-19 state of health very soon, and I thank you for taking the time to tell us about your experiences.
@Ilovepopcorn:
Sam posted above the fourteenth amendment verbatim. Read it and understand that it is the supreme law of the land, and no amount of emotional appeals and reasoning from you supplants it. Period.
That was the 4th amendment
Here is the 14th amendment READ IT as it is happening NOW
Along with your 1st and 2nd
Section 1
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
“Answer the call”? No. “Block this caller”? Yes.
Like answering the call of nature — go p— on it.
I knew our governor loved Hitler you know this is the exact same thing Hitler did in 1938 he told the youth and educated them on how to spot a Jew because we all know they have big noses and they’d have this and they have that now just replace the Jew and this and that with our governor’s plan the spot people this is socialism And just like George Carlin said it’s hard to study history in 1939 through the 40s because everything was in German I am Jewish and so my family were killed in the camps this is exactly is what caused Hitler to rise in power thank God I have a militia and a military I will not let this happen again everyone’s rights are beingTaken away I’m gonna look up how to get a governor at office I guess it’s kind of like impeachment for the president but we’ll see
Whether by initial design or ‘not letting a good crisis go to waste’ as an afterthought, the end game is upon us. Privacy will be shelved for the ‘greater good’. We are now one very large step closer to living under the NWO.
“The health department asked me about who I may have been in contact with and asked no personal information” Duh Smee, that is asking personal information. This invasion of privacy may have been necessary and even useful 2 or 3 months ago. Doing it now is just a ‘feel good’ by another incompetent politician.
Mongoose, your comment doesn’t make sense. I was questioned by the health department shortly after my first positive test in early April. I told them the hotel and flights and restaurants I was in after exposure. I suppose that could be called revealing personal information, but that sacrifice was unquestionably outweighed by possibly helping others that may be affected. I don’t feel violated by having the hotel maid be informed she was cleaning a covid positive room. Would you want to know if you had been sitting next to a covid positive person on a plane? That would involve tracing, even though you would never be told their name.
And as far as tracing not being valuable now, the virus is still out there and spreading. It will get better with mitigation efforts.
So SMee, was it March or April. Earlier you said you were tested in March, or am I misreading that? Now you say April.
Your story is suspect, as others have pointed out. tested in later March, early April (whatever) and still sick. I have family in other states that were positive and were over it in a couple of weeks. The fact that you still have it 8 weeks later … is very suspect based on the information to the public. Not saying you didn’t …but your story seems ‘off’.
And Tracing is NOT mitigation. The definition of mitigation is to reduce the seriousness or painfulness. Tracing does not do that. Tracing will tell us who might have been exposed. It does not reduce the seriousness of your exposure or the painfulness, it *might* prevent others from being infected, but based on the drop of the ‘R’ value and the fact that it does not live on surfaces, per the CDC/WHO, even the tracing to prevent others is now suspect.
Silva, thank you for your kind comment. Kindness seems to be a rare commodity on this site lately.
Parent, if you must know my personal details in order not to dismiss my experience, I was notified I was exposed on a March 30 flight (when I would have contracted it) and was sick and tested on the 3rd of April. True that many people with the virus have no symptoms after a couple weeks.Many don’t have symptoms at all. However if you get the covid pneumonia that can develop from it, that takes much longer to fight off, and one’s depleted immune system has a harder time fighting off the virus itself. Xray and tests confirm this. Do you think the people who are on a ventilator for over a month (which a number of my coworkers have been) are faking it?
As far as tracking being a mitigation effort, no it’s not for an individual patient, but it is for the spreading of the virus to the general population. This has been repeated often by the White House experts at the press conferences, as well as any epidemiology experts.
The current trend these days to dismiss everything one hears that doesn’t support their world view as fake news is very disturbing. We have a lot to learn about this new virus and having a large part of the population resisting information that isn’t convenient.
Much of my information comes from my doctor and heads of the covid response medical team at John Muir. I don’t believe they have an agenda other than stopping this virus.
Very few individuals require ventilators. Now you now say “a number of your coworkers have been” ..Sounds likely.. you don’t work in an asbestos factory by chance do you? And yes, we are aware of the activist position some at John Muir taken. Are you on staff?
Smee
you are right, I do not believe you cause to much of your story seems scripted. You have used all the buzz words on this site, in this article and you were called out on it earlier. Then I called you out on your March vs April testing. You seem to have a story for everything … Now ‘a lot of your coworkers’ are on ventilators or have been for over a month, sorry, you must know everyone in the hospital that has COVID!
You have conversations with the heads of the John Muir Covid response team, you must be a very important person. My cousin, infected in another state, did not talk to anyone on the COVID response team except for her doctor.
The current trend is to dismiss things that you do not agree with, but as you have seen from my posts, I love to report the raw data so people can make informed decisions. I do not care if it is what I believe or not, the data is the data and I will let the cards fall where they may.
USA TODAY
“According to the World Health Organization, 1 in 7 cases require hospitalization and 5% require intensive care with ventilators to survive.”
@Kentucky Derby….Well it must be true then.
Will they sell the data to Xfinity?
Sam, excellent! Entering the world, builds our immunity! Watch watch Cuomo said a few weeks back, the rate increase of Covid was high in the population staying home in quarantine, he was flabbergasted 😮!
I thought using other countries was sac religious in this establishment..while were at it let’s talk about Japan..better shall we discuss Florida? Georgia, UK..lord forbid Russia. You guys and your rules about your science and news. Watch out for the light, it can be blinding
I was thinking the same thing that if data is sold to to xfinity LOL
The tracing campaign should be put on the DO NOT CALL list
Do not bother us we are not interested
How the number gonna show up on the phone? will it be blocked? if we do not answer the phone will they leave a message on the voicemail. Can they keep calling us until we finally answer the phone? Just curious what the violation for not answering the phone. Oh excuse me thought it was a telemarketer. This tracing crap is a scam/telemarketer
What a waste of tax payer’s money just do not make a single sense at all. it only means spending money for nothing!!
Just say no.
You were never told to surrender your civil liberties! You have been asked to keep each other safe and healthy by following the mandated rules of COVID19 guidelines. Why are you all upset about this new normal? If you don’t do what is expected then you can expect dire consequences. SIMPLE AS THAT. Like being dead. You can run but you can’t hide. It is what it is.
Nope. There is no new normal. You clearly don’t know what civil liberties are. Love this “if you don’t do what’s expected, you will die”
Classic move there Adolf..sit down
@ILP
Giving up my civil liberties is the new normal?
Giving up the ability to go on vacation is the new normal?
Giving up my opportunity to hang out with my family, is the new normal?
By your definition of new normal, I can no longer hang out with friends, hug those that I care about that don’t live in my household, go shopping when I want to, get my haircut (LOL) …
With your ‘new normal’, the travel industry is dead. Unemployment sits at close to 20%. People lose homes and are living in cars. Great that rent is forgone, but the mortgage is not, so when the bank takes the rental home form the landlord, you still get kicked out! The mental anguish, suicide and domestic rates are climbing drastically, but this is your new normal? And you are okay with that?
You have been duped! The fatality rate is nowhere close to what they are reporting. It is below 1% based on multiple independent studies. Yeah, some of you folks on here like to challenge the Stanford one, but many many others have now been done supporting the same numbers! There are not MILLIONS dead like they said, there are around 100K. SIP is not the reason why, cause as many of the folks on here like to report, they see all their neighbors in the streets talking and hanging out with each other.
@Ilovepopcorn
Your post contradicts itself. You wrote that we’re being asked to keep each other safe by following mandated rules.
Well I’m here to tell you that if the rules are mandated, nobody’s asking.
Oz@ Thats mathematically impossible, better chance at winning the lottery. Just going by the science and data. Not sure what conspiracy theory you talking today but we now know what’s up with this virus. Not sure why everyone is still freaked..is it cnn?
Contact tracing! Why didn’t I think of that???
Oh, that’s right. I did!
ughhh
people di you not see how a guy at a basketball game protesting and supporting hong kong was ejected on national tv and was supported by the media and broadcasters as well
we are being taken over already
also china was losing the grip on hong kong ….then what happened they released covid and the hong kong protests stopped
now they imposed a swift takeover
welcome to the takeover
and you voted for it all to happen under the guise of diversity lol
you have endorsed your own surrender
why fight the final days
just bow and relish communism through china ….
your children will not be happy
The government has no business knowing who I am in contact with, where I go, or what I do unless I am suspected of a crime and they have a warrant for this info. Even then, I would not freely offer this info or research this info about others.
Paranoid much? No the government doesn’t got you. The tech companies got you. That issue should be resolved this summer