De Blasio’s coronavirus contact tracing team NOT allowed to ask about attending protests…

by The Right Scoop

The very people who De Blasio has hired to trace the infection of new coronavirus cases in New York City are not allowed to ask people if they participated in a protest:

THE CITY – Over the two last weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio and others have voiced concerns that packed police brutality protests across the city could trigger a new wave of COVID-19 infections.

Whether or not that’s the case, however, remains unknown — and de Blasio’s team won’t be directly trying to find out.

The hundreds of contact tracing workers hired by the city under de Blasio’s new “test and trace” campaign have been instructed not to ask anyone who’s tested positive for COVID-19 whether they recently attended a demonstration, City Hall confirmed to THE CITY.

“No person will be asked proactively if they attended a protest,” Avery Cohen, a spokesperson for de Blasio, wrote in an emailed response to questions by THE CITY.

Instead, test-and-trace workers ask COVID-positive individuals general questions to help them “recall ‘contacts’ and individuals they may have exposed,” Cohen said. Among the initial questions: “Do you live with anyone in your home?”

Tracers then ask about “close contacts” — defined as being within six feet of another person for at least 10 minutes.

It’s up to tested individuals to volunteer whether any of those close contacts occurred during protests. “If a person wants to proactively offer that information, there is an opportunity for them to do so,” Cohen wrote.

This is just dumb. These mass protests are likely to be the single biggest cause of new coronavirus cases, and yet they can’t ask whether someone has attended a protest?

It’s almost like De Blasio doesn’t want anyone knowing that the very protests he’s participated in could cause a resurgence of the virus.

Ted Cruz said this a few minutes ago on Twitter:


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