The bottom line is that 36 million Americans have lost their jobs because of COVID-19 fear and hysteria
COVID-19 Tracking, Tracing Initiates The Big Snitching Society
Lost your employment because the Democrats obliterated the economy? No problem, they are creating new jobs for you to snitch on your neighbors.
Welcome to the Covid-19 Surveillance State, where tracking and tracing people is the new gold standard of “what we need to do,” now that we have “flattened the curve,” and are waiting for a vaccine. The prospect of tracking and testing millions of Americans every day is the latest, most-frightening madness yet to arise during COVID-19 with the added wrinkle of moral busybodies snitching on their fellow citizens.
The federal government has been spying on Americans since the introduction of the Income Tax in 1913, and then with Social Security numbers, and more recently with the Patriot Act passed shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But soon snitchers will be able to report Americans to the authorities for not complying with the COVID-19 emergency health orders in nearly every state. We are entering a new phase: snitching and its Orwellian implications.
Last Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy--probably the leading totalitarian governor in the country although New York’s Andrew Cuomo and Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer are competitors--announced that the Garden State will hire a “community tracking corps” of 1,000 individuals to “trace” the whereabouts of New Jerseyans. “Absolutely crucial,” added New Jersey Commissioner of Health Judith Persichilli. All for “peace of mind,” Murphy said. “Multi-lingual” tracers will be in high demand, he added.
Not to be outdone, if New Jersey can have 1,000 tracers, then New York City can hire 10,000, said Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday. The mayor said 500 contact tracers have completed the Johns Hopkins University training with another 1,000 set to start May 24. The mayor said he expects the "army of tracers" to grow to at least 5,000 and could reach as high as 10,000.
We cannot trace, track, and test our way to freedom from COVID-19
"In the next literally two weeks, you're going to see a vast testing and tracing operation come alive like we've never seen before in this city, and this is just the beginning," Mayor de Blasio said without irony or chagrin.
New York City also this weekend unleashed nearly 2,300 “social distancing ambassadors” on New Yorkers to make sure they are wearing masks and keeping the six-foot separation rule here. It is not immediately clear who are these “social distancing ambassadors,” but with that innocuous name, they have to be bad.
Mayor de Blasio also said Sunday that New York City beaches will be closed Memorial Day Weekend. So, it is safe to go to the supermarket in New York, but not to sit in the open air and sunshine. These ridiculous edicts are the bread and butter of the lockdown. Increasing surveillance is crazy when the rules make no sense. The emergency measures are the means to control craven New Yorkers and destroy Donald Trump’s presidency.
We cannot trace, track, and test our way to freedom from COVID-19, which is likely to be with us forever – the same way we have hundreds of other diseases that kill people with random regularity. Trackers, tracers, and social distancing ambassadors represent an accelerating descent into dystopia invading every aspect of our lives. This collection of globalists, health care bureaucrats, and governor tyrants will not rest until everyone consents to having a GPS tracking system inserted into his or her arm, so Big Brother can know Americans’ whereabouts at all times.
Tracking and tracing is a dangerous precedent
The only thing clear about COVID-19 is that we are still learning about the virus. Americans are likely to die from COVID-19 for a long time, the same way they succumb to heart disease, cancer, respiratory illness, accidents of all types, drug overdoses, Alzheimer’s, the flu and a host of other unintended premature deaths. The amazing good news that we rarely hear discussed is that despite being highly contagious, COVID-19 only kills a small percentage of infected people. Probably everybody will contract COVID-19 at some point, no matter how hard they try to avoid exposure. The best outcome would be to find a vaccine to protect older people and those with underlying health conditions, and for everybody else to get COVID-19, survive it and build herd immunity. We need both: a vaccine and herd immunity, one without the other is not going to win the day.
Tracking and tracing is a dangerous precedent. Even with testing there will be false positives and negatives. Not only that, a person could test negative one day, and a day later “catch” COVID-19. Mass testing would require an unnecessarily intrusive government apparatus. Someone who had COVID-19 may or may not get it again, depending on how many “antibodies” they produced in their system. Many public health experts agree that the presence of antibodies in a patient means they may acquire some degree of immunity. That is still not good enough to satisfy the public health scolds concerning the value of getting and surviving COVID-19.
The bottom line is that 36 million Americans have lost their jobs because of COVID-19 fear and hysteria. Trying to avoid COVID-19 with social distancing is a crap shoot in terms of a public health strategy. The best we can do is protect everyone who feels vulnerable, while the rest of us go about the business of our daily lives and make sure that America survives with individual liberty and freedom, which is imperiled by the onerous, irrational COVID-19 response-- especially the new snitching.
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Daniel Wiseman is an independent political commentator, who focuses on national and international affairs. He spent nine years as a professional journalist in Wyoming before working in fund-raising, non-profit management, and is now working in New York City. Wiseman focuses his writing on how to bring the United States back to its Constitutional moorings. He writes exclusively for Canada Free Press.
