re: Destroya: EVERY restaurant customer will be required to give their name and phone number

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Are we going to start doing this with the flu and other infectious diseases? Does it stop when we have a vaccine?

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It can slow down and stop when testing is available to everyone.

My god. This board is infested with karens.

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They will interview those people and find out where they've been.

The lists are to facilitate tracing of contacts, and restaurants will be hot spots of contacts. If we had widespread testing, the need for tracing would be lessened, but it will be a while before the testing ramps up sufficiently.

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It just seems like something that may sound good in theory to someone, but it is a lot of work for very little reward. It takes up to 14 days to show symptoms, and we're asking someone sick with covid to give dates/places accurately. Then we're expecting some random local government employee to sit down with lists and call people based on whatever they wrote down? And expecting people who went out knowing their risks to listen to a self quarantine order when they possibly weren't even exposed to said sick person?

And what about the myriad of other places the sick person may have been in the past 14 days? The gas station, Home Depot, grocery store, etc. don't have lists to call.

It seems like an immense burden being places on struggling restaurants and a waste of money/time for something that might help a couple people.

Also, forgive my ignorance but is there still an issue with tests not being available? I havn't heard that being said in a while, so genuinely asking.

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If you went out, wouldn't you want to know if you came into contact with someone with COVID 19?

I don't see this being a huge burden on anyone.

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The post I replied to said that people would be called and told to self quarantine. That is much different than simply knowing you might have come into contact with someone with covid-19.

Also, I pretty much assume I might have come into contact with someone who has it every single time I leave my home. I imagine anyone choosing to eat in a restaurant feels the same.

Okay, lets use Superior Grill.

Say I decide to go Uptown and eat at Superior Grill today. First day back, nice sunny weather. I bet they'll be doing some business today. Two weeks from now, I am sick.

I somehow remember that I was at Superior on May 16th, and they assign someone to call all people who dined there that day. Even at 25%, you're probably talking 300 people when you consider that most people go out in groups and tables are turned every hour.

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if you don't comply, authorities have the power, seeing as we're in a pandemic, to require it.

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THREE HUNDRED PEOPLE are told to self quarantine? And authorities are somehow able to enforce 300 individuals who live all over the place to do that? Come on.. That isn't possible. What? They're doing to place 300 officers outside of people's homes?

And that is one lone example. The new cases each day are 200+ people. So my one example is multiplied out to thousands and thousands. The entire city would be under "self quarantine".

And that's not even touching on the topic of all of the other people those fellow diners came into contact with before they got the call.

When you consider the burden placed on restaurants, the burden placed on diners, and the amount of time/money being spent on hiring people to do this stuff.. it is a waste of time. The cons far outweigh any pros.

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China just announced they are going to make testing available to everyone in the province.

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Oh for frick’s sake.

It’s funny how some the most hysterically fearful people during this mess also hold up China as some model that we should follow.

Frankly, I thought you were better than this, Stadium.

Rat has to be trolling. The state is sending out mass texts begging people to come get tested because the testing centers aren’t busy at all. Supply of tests is definitely outweighing demand right now and has been for a while.

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Could there possibly be a reason why you wouldn't?

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I though baton rouge's mayor was horrible....new orlean your mayor takes it too a new level of stupidity...
When is her term up.....