Rugged individualism, conspiracy culture and contact tracing......

[marmar]

.... I know several people, including some relatives, who said they would never respond to covid contact tracers if they were contacted.
These aren't anti-mask "freedumb" types either. These are people who believe that C-19 is very real, who mask up and engage in proper social distancing. But on this one issue - contact tracing - they retreat into this Big Brother conspiracy theory fear.
It just helps crystallize why fighting this virus is such a daunting task.

[TwilightZone]

1. Propaganda is very powerful.

Even people who are otherwise reasonable and intelligent can fall for it. The non-stop bullshit machine in the WH is responsible for this.

He's also why the vast majority of people won't trust a vaccine that he claims is safe. All by design. Fear, fear, fear.

[JHB]

7. The non-stop bullshit machine in the WH is the beneficiary of...

...the nonstop bullshit machine conservatives began setting up in the 70s and haven't stopped expanding since.

[NightWatcher]

2. Screw society? In that case, I'm driving on the left side of the road and ignoring traffic laws...

because FreeDum.

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. If it wasn't for a helmet law, my oldest son wouldn't be here today...

It shouldn't be an argument ..so sad....

[asiliveandbreathe]

3. Perhaps media should show a ward with patients on ventilators, alone,

suffering from covid19..do you suppose this scene would bring home the seriousness of wearing a mask...I am so pissed by the selfishness..and the lack of response by this so called admin..200,000+ dead..perhaps a documentary, from emergency to ICU..

This whole not wearing a mask just doesn't make sense to me...

[marmar]

4. These are people who wear masks and social distance as they should.....

..... but they are dead set against responding to contact tracing.

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. ..maskers, who may have exposed someone, and not tell them, or

not participate in contact tracing...what am I missing..early in this pandemic one of hubbys friends had a very bad cold (this after covid testing came back negative) - this friend told everyone he was in contact with that he submitted to a test...this was before contact tracing ..that is what I call a friend....be well..

[LizBeth]

8. That makes no sense to me if a person is receptive and reasonable. Contact tracing isn't a hard

concept to grasp.

[marmar]

9. It's a big problem tho....

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/22/us-health-officials-struggle-with-coronavirus-contact-tracing-cdc-study-says.html

[LizBeth]

10. I do understand it is a problem and assumed it was mostly with the stupid and deniers, not the

reasonable, because the reasonable can understand the effectiveness of it and to refuse, one would have to ignore reason.