New York county issued subpoenas to force party-goers to speak with coronavirus contact tracers. It worked.

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Public health officials in Rockland County, New York, issued subpoenas with expensive fines attached to force people connected to a coronavirus cluster to speak with contact tracers

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Rockland County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert said county officials issued the subpoenas after the party-goers, all young adults in their 20s, attended a large party in Clarkstown on June 17.The host of the party had Covid-19 symptoms but held the party anyway, leading to the infection of eight attendees to date, Ruppert said.

CNN follows contact tracers as they try to contain Covid-19 03:09A contact tracer's role is to reach out to potentially infected people and get information on who they have interacted with, where they have been, and who lives with them, and to try to quarantine them from others before spreading the virus.The timeliness of that information is"paramount" to stop coronavirus from spreading and keeping New York's cases down from its earlier peak, Ruppert said.

 

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They should sue and sue and sue. This is not legal in any way. Ppl committing actual crimes in NY are given Mets tickets but these ppl get fines?

It was the protests dummies. Case closed. Journalism once in awhile please.

Now do protesters 🙃

When the Constitution was written, the power of the President was limited & all power given to Congress. Although, the president does head up the Cabinet, which is made up of 15 departments; This power was only given to the president in order to carry out the wishes of Congress.

What about the protesters?!

What refreshing news that while it is the only stretch of the Hudson River Valley west shore twixt Bear Mountain and NYC we haven't explored along the back roads, it reinforces we didn't miss anything & in as much as we love NY, when a vaccine arrives, it's back across the pond!

Pure evil

'Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.' - Carl Sagan.

Should've called their party a 'protest'. No tracing required

Sad it has come to a $2000 fine. Says a lot about some people who won’t wear mask or stay away from crowds. In a civilized society, sometkmes we have to do things we don’t like—NOBODY LIKES the masks! Compassionate ppl will wear one. Grow up ppl...tired of selfish ppl whining.

'who refused Covid-19 contact tracing' Violation of HIPPA, and numerous privacy laws. It will collapse the moment someone challenges it. But then again, NY is run entirely by democrats, so maybe not. They have proven that the narrative is more important than rights.

Now show me where these officials issued the same threat of a fine to any protesters or rioters.

Fight the government in court. The government would lose. You do not have to agree to contact tracing.

Yea this is high bullshit

You have a job ready for your socialist tactics in China, or Russia. As an American, you should be ashamed.

Imagine how difficult tracing would be if everyone just left their phone at home....

Incredible how CNN simply ignores the tens of thousands of BLM protesters. Like it just did t happen.

So a few can’t party 🤔. But thousands can protest with no consequences

Progressives LOVE pushing people around. The same people giving 'swerlies' to the little kid in high school are the same ones doing contact tracing.

MAGATS

You mean like how subpoenas forced people to testify before congress?

Based on what authority

Fu*k any part of New York!

Unless of course they were out turning over cop cars and burning down business for Social Change

Sounds very big brotherish.

Too bad subpoenas have no meaning anymore

Individual rights vs the rights of the masses. If a person can refuse a mask and put others at risk day after day it’s obvious to me that the masses have no rights. Common decency. Common sense. Working together. It shouldn’t be so hard. Too bad there’s no leadership in America.

Counter sue these rat bastards for extortion. If I did not get sick , I would not be reporting either. Do not abuse fellow Americans this way. Many records are being falsified as Covid 19 death just for the cash bounties paid to the health officials who record them. CORRUPTION!

Contact tracing is not mandatory. The potential bad for the government to possess that kind of information far outweighs its good.

NYC's contact tracers have been told not to ask people if they've attended a protest via businessinsider

Every party attendee needs to stamp trump on theitr forehead so hospitals know who to bill, blame and sue

My joke of day on why people are not wearing masks.

People invoking constitutional rights re Covid-19 are the problem, allowing it to spread and thrive. Covid-19 has nothing to with citizenry rights. It attacks as it sees fit - as long as it can carry from one living body to another. Keep distance and/or put on a mask.

entire communities currently not recognised under Israeli planning would be at high risk of 'forcible transfer'. Palestine

Contact tracing is the new Nazi numbered tattoo.

Where were all the subpoenas for the rioters, looters, thugs, and protestors? They are the REAL criminals. Socialist Democrats will go after families getting together. Voters this is ONLY going to get worse if Joe Biden is elected.

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