YOUR FUTURE AND THE CONTACT TRACING SYSTEM

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You have probably heard of contact tracing through your governor through the news as things that need to be implemented Before we can go back to normal. But what is contact tracing? let me share it with you and You're gonna be freaked out by the end of this video now Now what I did is I was very interested in this so I went ahead and I got Two certificates in terms of what it was to become a contact tracer So I spent about nine hours. We're gonna wrap it up here in about 20 minutes to just give you the highlights of what contact tracing entails And how it's going to affect you because I guarantee you it will affect you and your family We talk about saving the lives and the livelihood of the American people and and of course the life of our democracy So in terms of saving lives The only way we're going to have rid ourselves of this as well as open up our economy Evidence science-based testing testing testing testing Just think of the T's testing tracing treatment and isolation them when necessary of course with social distancing. So let's look at the main points now This is if you have COVID-19 you can either be done by test or by symptoms Now what our contact tracers know is that you can infect two days before and up to 10 days after and How you can infect people is there's three definitions that were given in contact tracing school One is physical so you're hugging someone you are kissing them high-fiving them Any physical contact you could have given it to them if you're close within six feet from More than 10 minutes. So you're talking to someone and you're within that six feet social distancing number Well, you can infect them then let's say you're more than six feet apart But for a longer time at this point you're thinking movie theaters airplanes trains restaurants So maybe not direct contact with somebody, but they're in the vicinity of the area for longer than 30 to 40 minutes now What's gonna happen is once you get a test? That is positive It goes to a tracer and that tracer is going to do some research on you find out a little bit about you and give you call Now they're gonna tell you that you you tested positive and That you need to be isolated for a minimum of 10 days on the onset and it has to be within three no fever for three days So if you're on day nine, but you still have a fever you need to add another three days until your fever is cleared and By isolation, I mean total isolation. This is Nobody near you Even your dog can't be there so you can see here that specifically with a person that is symptomatic They should maintain separation from household animals as they would any other household members and avoid red contact with any of your pets So you cannot contact your pets people anybody in your family. You need to be completely isolated Now what that means is you could have to go into a hotel room If you have no way of not sharing a bathroom or any space They will check that out So you'll have to show like video evidence if the conference has done via teleconference Walk them around your house. Let them know that you have space to be isolated Now the next is quarantine Quarantine means I am healthy. I have no symptoms. I have not contacted the disease But maybe for 14 days, they're gonna check to make sure that I haven't so that means again that I cannot Leave my house and as a contact trace from supposed to set you up with social services So if you have kids You have no one to care for them. We'll take your kids. We'll take care of that if you have need groceries We'll do groceries, but you literally cannot be in contact with anybody and you cannot leave your house Even if you're healthy you are still quarantine not to be leaving the house Unfortunately, you could be totally healthy Get out of quarantine And guess what be at a restaurant someone else in the vicinity has it be quarantine again Now I'm not sure what happened with all the other states But what we did in California is we passed a workman's comp law that's in effect to the end of July That workman's comp is going to take care of all of that for any employee no matter where You contract contact it the employers are gonna be held responsible I'm not sure what that is in all the other states, but it's something that passed here just recently and who knows if that will get extended Okay So isolation and quarantine basically means the same thing except quarantine is a little bit longer, right? So you're sick you only have 10 more days if you're quarantined 14 days. What does this look like in normal time? Okay, so they're gonna want to know as a contact tracer I call you up. I tell you you become positive We've looked at your house through a video conference so you can show me that you have a place to isolate and then I'm gonna ask you Who did you come in contact with? And I'm gonna tell you if you tell me I don't know I'm gonna tell you to look at your phone and we can do it together and look at your social media and we'll figure out where you have been And you need to make sure you know your movies flight numbers and anything with large venues now some of the places what they've already instituted now or you have to put your contact information when you go to a restaurant you go to a hair salon any of those things because That way they can track you But you would say I went to this movie or I went to this restaurant everybody who's at that restaurant would be contacted then by the contact tracer So let's say Unfortunately, I got it. Well, guess what my family would have to be quarantined and not just for the 10 days They have to be quarantined for 14 days because it would be also the last time they had contact with me So on day four my test comes back positive now they have 14 days from day four the last day that they had contact with me And they have to be completely isolated from me Let's say I was on a train We were all sitting on the cat the same cabin because I was getting to work and there was 10 15 people on that train all of them would need to be quarantined I had gone to work Everybody at work would need to be quarantined. I went to a restaurant after work all of them would need to be quarantined Can you see how a disease when it is already widely spread this doesn't make sense to quarantine the population in terms of you could get Quarantine again and again and again even though you're healthy and never sick you will not be allowed to leave your house Now you've been hearing that this is all voluntary you'll hear it throughout the Speeches I've listened to a lot of governors. I'll put on the Washington governor really quickly so you can hear him say oh yeah They'll follow it, but let me show you before I do that a couple of the documents that are out there This is right on his Website he's already rolled out the plan and basically you can read this request for voluntary quarantine This is for somebody your legal guardian at it tells you to go and remain at the address by the date and time and then I love this It is very important that you comply with this request for voluntary quarantine remember. I'm not sick nobody sick You are health and the health of others depend on it if you do not comply with this request for voluntary quarantine We may use a detention order and forced by the police to assure your compliance Hmm, that's a strange is voluntary request. I've ever received and then this is also on the website And I've put everything here because obviously go research this stuff yourself, but you can see here If you use a core order because someone is not following they have non-compliance You can be incarcerated and find up to two thousand dollars per day Let me show you the governor. So let me show you how he's been in it for somebody who does not follow direction Hi governor. Where it comes in contact tracing How are you guys going to handle people or families who wonder if us? It's a store to sign isolate if they want to leave their home to get groceries I know you've said they can't do that. I will you make sure they don't well That's why I refer to the family support personnel We will have attached to the families of family support person Who will check in with them to see what they need on a daily basis see how they're doing see how they're fairing And help them if they if they if they can't get a friend to do their grocery shopping We will help get them groceries in some fashion if they need pharmaceuticals to be picked up We can help make sure that they get their pharmaceuticals So that's why we want to provide them family support or as far as it refusal it just shouldn't come to that and it really hasn't We've had really good success when we've asked people to isolate They've done so in the real high percentages So we're happy about that we believe that that will continue So remember everybody that will be quarantined will be 14 days in the last contact and this there's no minimum Times this could be indefinite now you're thinking there's just no way like What about my privacy? How do I have to share this information and I can tell you when I went to the contact tracing classes They stout That you are doing this contact tracing for the the greater good you are helping people not spread the disease It is very important that that people have privacy, but when it comes to The greater good your privacy is null and void Now as soon as you get a positive test result this goes directly to an electronic database Let me tell you I took this directly off the training website that the isolation or quarantine can be mandated and enforced And there's other health enforcement such as vaccines are requirements to take medicine because you cannot be risk being infected And giving it to others when you're tested for COVID-19 You might assume that your test result will stay confidential with your doctor and the health department After all, that's how it usually works with medical information, but we're living in unusual times The associated phrase has revealed that across America there's widespread sharing of medical information between health officials and law enforcement Denver is doing it so Zell Paso County It is law enforcement specific information that is only in our computer aided dispatch Jacqueline Kirby is with the old Paso County Sheriff's Office. She says addresses are flagged Identifying homes of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 We get sensitive information all the time. We have cautions on addresses for a myriad of reasons And this is just an additional layer of protection for our deputies I want to share with you. This is just something in California. That's where I'm located But you can read here and I'm assuming that a lot of other states have similar things This shows that They can because you can see here a threat of a communicable disease outbreak or epidemic that threatens the public's health It gives them the rights to do this Adopt and enforce regulations requiring strict or modified isolations or quarantine For any contagious infections are communicable diseases It takes measures as necessary to assert the nature disease and prevent it spread It can take control of the body of any living person are the corpse of any deceased It can quarantine isolate inspect and disinfect Persons animal houses rooms and other property So based on what we have right now, I don't have any privacy rights You can see here. This is just New Jersey. I just wanted to throw this out there because other states have laws This was enacted in 2005 So I suggest you go start researching What is allowed in your state and what rights you have given up when you start looking at A disease that could pose a risk to the health of the population Let me put it very clearly you have no constitutional right To endanger the public and spread the disease even if you disagree You have no right not to be vaccinated You have no right not to wear a mask You have no right to open up your business. Wait, can I stop you? Yeah, no right not to be vaccinated meaning if they decide you have to be vaccinated We have to be vaccinated Absolutely, and if you refuse to be vaccinated the state has the power To literally take you to a doctor's office and flung a needle into your arm If the vaccine is not in the constitution to prevent if the vaccination is designed to prevent the spreading disease If the vaccination is only to prevent a disease that you will get for example If there's a disease that will kill you you have the right to refuse that but you have no right to refuse to be vaccinated against a contagious disease Public health the police power of the Constitution Gives the state the power to tell that and there are cases in the United States of spring forth So they talked about tools available for contact tracing because they said you know In california we're supposed to have 20,000 contact tracers for our population They said you might get a lot of these cases so you might be doing a couple 1500 a day How else can we do it and it had this was weird, but they talk about China and North Korea They say China and North Korea have a great system because they have a centralized database and this database has everybody's phone number And they're given a unique code and these codes track them through GPS. So as soon as They're in contact or somebody has it they can send a notice out to everybody And they automatically know that they've been infected We don't have that in the USA. So it was weird that they brought that up However, they wanted to share was a great system They started talking about the USA and that they have smartphone apps and also that Businesses should be taking information if somebody comes affected at this point until apps are more widespread I want to share about apps because you've heard their voluntary They're voluntary and right now in the US There's some apps out there and we'll look at those But they're about two percent of the people have downloaded them and they said they need at least 50 to 70 percent of the population to download it to make apps Effective, but how did these apps worked? Well, let me share What they're doing in India. So India released an app and They said this is a voluntary app. You do not need to download it however get this in order to Go anywhere you have to have the app. So if you want to get on a plane You have to show the app that you are not under quarantine or isolation You want to get in a work you have to show your app you want to get on a train you have to show your app so They said Oh, it's voluntary They had the most downloads more than Pokemon go because guess what you couldn't go back to life without downloading the app Now I also put here New Zealand's app what they do is they give you a QR code You have to scan that QR code to get anywhere. So if you're supposed to be on quarantine or isolated Guess what you're not getting anywhere because your app doesn't show you're cleared So that's how they're really able to enforce this without a huge police or military presence because you just can't go anywhere without the app You can't get in the grocery store because they're going to have a QR code where you need to scan in now You may be thinking well. Do they even have that in the United States? Well, here's four states that already have their app Ready to be downloaded like I said they're at about 2 percent right now But you might have noticed this on your iPhone the other day This showed a software update and if you didn't see it you might have already got the automatic update But basically it says this allows COVID-19 contact tracing apps to work And you may not even have known it. It was a very quick little update But it has already come to the United States recently Google and Apple just gave out some information. I thought this was great Here's the website at the at the bottom Obviously I want you to do your own research But you can kind of see here how it works that you can see that you're close to somebody And you get a notification that uh-oh you need to be quarantined you were too close to someone had it And then listen to this in this second phase in the coming months This is really interesting because it talks about that They're going to use Bluetooth in the first phase But without requiring an app to be installed If a match is detective the user will be notified and if the user has not already downloaded an official public health authority app They will be prompted to download an official app and advise on next steps You're not going to have a choice They're telling you it's it's voluntary at this point But so was social distancing and then we got locked down in our house So it is not voluntary this is happening and you need to be aware so I suggest this is a great document pull up this COVID-19 document that Apple and Google gave out It really talks about all the different things that are going to happen because of the app and it is Scary just to kind of share with you the different states if you think your state is exempt because of Might be a red state versus a blue state Every state is doing this Okay, so I would suggest checking out this bill hr6666 And basically there's a hundred billion dollars that they're asking for 2020 And additional years for subsequent fiscal year financing for 2021 and beyond So if you think this isn't happening and you think they're not investing a lot of money in it They are They're trying to get a hundred billion dollars to track and trace us and keep us quarantined How do you think they're going to allow you to get back into Society without being quarantined and isolated again and again and again, especially as disease spreads Are we do more testing and we realize that maybe there's a lot of people out there that have it that just don't show symptoms But they'll need to be isolated You'll see that there's 120 antibody tests in general these tests are not reliable for the individuals to act based on the results So basically They're saying Even if you had antibodies in the crime of iris it's still unknown if that protects you from getting sick again There's probably only one way that you're going to be able to get out of your house And that's going to be to be vaccinated So just watch out for that because that is really becoming a hot topic of the vaccination And that might be the only way that you're going to be released out of this tracking and tracing in terms of being allowed to go into stores I want to share this last video with you And I thought it was interesting I'll put it that way and end with that video But start thinking about this tracking and tracing and really What's the purpose? It makes sense if something was small and the outbreak was small And they could actually track and trace it but at this point It's so widespread What is the value with that? Jack Windsor WMFDTV Mansfield Governor on the last question and my question is for you And it's going to be a very sensitive question and I'm going to do my best to be intentional So that it's not misrepresented Today it sounds as if we're pivoting from COVID to larger social issues like housing education and transportation I know in past pressers we've learned about dr. Paul farmer and partners in health working with us on contact tracing Looking at the partners in health website contact tracing seems to be part of a larger social agenda for partners in health The site states a vision to rectify quote structural violence of capitalism Which the organization sees as the root cause of things such as racism gender inequality xenophobia and homophobia now I'm not questioning the injustice of those things governor So let me be very clear about that what my question is Can you tell us why you chose to partner with an organization that demonizes capitalism and seems to be rooted in Liberation theology based on Marxist ideals Well, I've never always agreed with Paul farmer who started and Many of his ideas but he he in the organization have had an ability to deliver health services I'm my wife Fran. I very familiar with this in Haiti We've seen what he has done in Haiti. We've visited Haiti over over 20 times and so that's just something that we do in our private Lives and so the partners with health. We don't you don't have to accept the ideology Of Paul or anybody else, but what I'm interested in is is getting things done and they're not the ones who are doing it on the ground People who are going to be doing it on the ground are all high ones But you know, they they serve as a consultant They have done this type of work Not only in the United States, but but around the world They're pretty darn good at and so I'm going to take help from where I can get help and where I find expertise I don't have to agree with everyone's Ideology or or what they think about everything in the world and to to accept that to be able to use their help We're a war we're a battle we're up with the best people we can on the field The best people are the Ohio ones, but we're gonna get we're gonna get some help from this group because They've done some of these things before You You