{"id":42457,"date":"2020-07-22T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=42457"},"modified":"2020-07-24T06:52:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T13:52:47","slug":"when-a-contact-tracer-calls-dont-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/when-a-contact-tracer-calls-dont-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"When a \u201cContact Tracer\u201d Calls, Don\u2019t Answer!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"(Chuck Muth) \u2013\u00a0<\/em>Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak\u2019s first magic cure for making the COVID-19 bug go away was social distancing.\u00a0 Then it was increased testing.\u00a0 Then it was \u201cThe Mask.\u201d\u00a0 Now he and fellow Democrats are pushing \u201ccontact tracing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a tweet on Monday, Rep. Susie Q. Lee (D-NV) chimed in to second the guv\u2019s emotion\u2026<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cRemember, contact tracing is key to slow the spread of #COVID19. If you get a call or voicemail from our hard-working Nevada contact tracers, please do you part and take the call!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

NO!\u00a0 DON\u2019T!<\/p>\n

Treat that call as if it was an ax murderer on the other end checking to see if you\u2019re home.<\/p>\n

Seriously, if you\u2019re not already scared down your skivvies over the loss of individual liberties thanks to the spreading SISOLAK-19 virus, you will be over this \u201ccontact tracing\u201d thing.\u00a0 Here\u2019s how it works\u2026<\/p>\n

You decide, for whatever reason, to get a COVID test.\u00a0 In three to seven days it comes back positive.\u00a0 Your life is then taken over by government agents who will grill you about everywhere you\u2019ve been and everyone you\u2019ve been in contact with.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s just the beginning.<\/p>\n

Danielle Wallace of Fox News\u00a0reported on Sunday<\/a>\u00a0about the nightmare a Kentucky woman, Elizabeth Linscott, and her family have been subjected to since getting a positive test, even though she was showing no symptoms.<\/p>\n

Because of the test result, Mrs. Linscott was asked by the Hardin County Health Department \u201cto sign documents agreeing to call them any time she left her house.\u201d\u00a0 She refused.<\/p>\n

WAVE 3 News picks up the story\u2026<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A couple of days after she denied signing the Self-isolation and Controlled Movement Agreed Order, Linscott said the Hardin County Sheriff\u2019s Department arrived at her home without warning. Her husband, Isaiah, was home.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cI open up the door, and there\u2019s like eight different people, five different cars,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018What the heck\u2019s going on?\u2019 This guy\u2019s in a suit with a mask. It\u2019s the health department guy, and he has three papers for us – for me, her and my daughter.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The couple was ordered to wear ankle monitors. If they travel more than 200 feet, law enforcement will be notified.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWe didn\u2019t rob a store. We didn\u2019t steal something. We didn\u2019t hit and run. We didn\u2019t do anything wrong,\u201d Elizabeth Linscott said.<\/em><\/p>\n

To be clear: The young mother didn\u2019t refuse to self-quarantine.\u00a0 She simply refused to sign the government\u2019s form because of the wording restricting \u201cher traveling anywhere unless she calls the health department first.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy part was if I have to go to the ER, if I have to go to the hospital, I\u2019m not going to wait to get the approval to go,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Now she has to get a lawyer.<\/p>\n

But whatever you do, don\u2019t think for a minute nothing like this can happen to you as long as you don\u2019t get a positive COVID test.\u00a0 Which brings us back to contact tracing.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend I learned of an unidentified individual in Carson City who tested positive.\u00a0 The Contact Tracing Police then leapt into action and compiled a list of people the individual had been in contact with.<\/p>\n

Well, one of the individuals named by the COVID-positive individual was then contacted by the Contact Tracing Police and forced to sign a \u201cDeclaration of Self Quarantine.\u201d\u00a0 Let\u2019s call this victim \u201cHostage One.\u201d<\/p>\n

The form included the following that Hostage One was required to consent to\u2026<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cI understand that to protect my family, friends and community from the spread of this disease, I must physically separate and confine myself away from other people for the period of time specified by a court or health authorities, including the Carson City Department of Health and Human Services (CCHHS).\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cI understand that any willful action that I take which exposes other people to this communicable disease may be deemed a reckless disregard for the safety of others by a court of law and could lead to civil liability or criminal prosecution.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

To be clear, Hostage One wasn\u2019t tested for the Wu-Flu.\u00a0 He\/she was only reported to government authorities as someone who\u00a0may<\/em>\u00a0have been in contact with someone else who\u00a0did<\/em>\u00a0test positive.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Hostage One was sentenced to a mandatory 14-day quarantine.\u00a0 Not only was he\/she barred from going to their job, he\/she was barred from even leaving the house.\u00a0 And not just him\/her, but their entire family.<\/p>\n

Understandably, Hostage One was, and continues to be, scared to death to say anything publicly about their ordeal.\u00a0 It was shared with me on the condition that I keep their identity confidential.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cI\u2019d like to stay off the radar,\u201d Hostage One wrote.\u00a0 \u201cThis shit is insane.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

After being released from quarantine last week, Hostage One wrote to a friend\u2026<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe person who tested positive gave our name to Health and Human Services.\u00a0 We were basically on house arrest.\u00a0 I was told I could not leave my yard, even to run.\u00a0 They had a \u2018monitor\u2019 that called us to make sure we were home every day.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Hostage One \u201cfelt so on edge; like they were watching me\u201d that they didn\u2019t even tell friends what they were going through at the time.\u00a0 They felt trapped and terrified.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cIt was awful.\u00a0 Not to mention the two weeks of income we missed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Hang on.\u00a0 It gets worse\u2026<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cIt was a mess.\u00a0 You can\u2019t get a test without having symptoms unless \u2018they\u2019 say it\u2019s OK.\u00a0 So we were tested last Friday.\u00a0 That was 3 days after our mandated \u2018voluntary\u2019 quarantine.\u00a0 We got the results yesterday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Got that?\u00a0 Hostage One was forced into involuntary quarantine because an unidentified individual who tested positive ratted them out to the Contact Tracing Police.<\/p>\n

Then, because they had no symptoms, they had to ask for the government\u2019s permission to get tested while quarantined.\u00a0 The test results didn\u2019t come back for a week.<\/p>\n

AND THEY TESTED NEGATIVE<\/u>!<\/p>\n

Locked up under the threat of criminal prosecution, not for having the Wu-Flu, but for possibly coming into contact with someone else who\u00a0DID<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Look, I\u2019m neither a doctor nor a lawyer.\u00a0 So I\u2019m not venturing either medical or legal advice here.\u00a0 However\u2026<\/p>\n

If, hypothetically, I suspected I might have picked up a mild case of the \u2018rona, but it wasn\u2019t so bad that I needed medical attention, I would\u00a0NOT<\/u>\u00a0get tested!<\/p>\n

First, I\u2019m not persuaded the tests are accurate.\u00a0\u00a0Click here<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Secondly, even if I learn I\u2019ve tested positive\u2026so what?\u00a0 It cures my curiosity, but nothing else.<\/p>\n

There is no cure or treatment at this time.\u00a0 So if I have mild, flu-like symptoms I\u2019m just going to do what I\u2019d do with any other strain of the flu\u2026sleep, drink plenty of water, double up on the Vitamin C, eat chicken soup, take two aspirins and hope to feel better in the morning.<\/p>\n

Thirdly, I\u2019m not about to be another \u201ccase\u201d for Sisolak to use to keep our state and economy locked up.<\/p>\n

And lastly, but now most importantly, I ain\u2019t about to subject myself, my friends or my family to the Contact Tracing Police.\u00a0 I\u2019d self-quarantine and let folks I know that *maybe* I have the \u2018rona and *maybe* they\u2019d been exposed.<\/p>\n

But I wouldn\u2019t tell the government.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just me.\u00a0 You have to choose for yourself what you\u2019d do in similar circumstances.\u00a0 But reflect carefully on the experiences of the two families noted above before making your decision.<\/p>\n

Your very freedom is at stake.<\/p>\n

FAMOUS LAST WORDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe market will crash, your taxes will go up, your police will be defunded or replaced with social workers, and rioters will stroll through your gated property at will. Sound good? Then vote for #JoeBiden. If not, vote for @realDonaldTrump like your life depends on it.\u201d \u2013\u00a0James Woods<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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