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Report: New York City virus ‘contact tracers’ not allowed to ask about protest attendance

Report: New York City virus ‘contact tracers’ not allowed to ask about protest attendance 1
NEW YORK, NY – On May 8, 2020, New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio announced the formation of the New York City Test and Trace Corps, to be populated by 1,000 contact tracers.  The purpose of this corps is to “test and trace every New Yorker,” according to de Blasio.

“If you test positive, you’ll receive a call from a Contact Tracer who will:

“Determine if you need more medical attention

“Offer services to safely separate at home or at a hotel, including meals and medication

“Create a list of everyone you had contact with (less than 6 feet for more than 10 minutes) since shortly before the onset of symptoms, including family, friends and coworkers so that they can be directed to the help they may need.”

“The City will also ensure their close contacts are rapidly traced, assessed, and quarantined at home or a hotel, as necessary.”

Such contacts at anti-police protests, however, will not be examined, unless they happen to be volunteered by the person being interviewed.

De Blasio spokesperson Avery Cohen noted:

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“No person will be asked proactively if they attended a protest. If a person wants to proactively offer that information, there is opportunity for them to do so.”

Concerns of hypocrisy continue to be raised as Mayor de Blasio appears to place priority on social distancing even as he continues not to suggest that protesters and rioters are, in fact, not following social distancing rules.

In a recent tweet, he stated, 

“It’s a beautiful Saturday, New York City, but remember to be safe: if you have to go outside, wear a face covering and keep a safe distance from others. 

We’re driving COVID-19 rates down but the only way to keep it on the run is to stick with the strategies that are working.”
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, former director of the CDC, has claimed that social distancing is “the strongest weapon we have against coronavirus,” calling reopening efforts “a very dangerous experiment.”
Frieden’s colleague and current CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield termed reopen protests “unhelpful” for prevention of outbreaks.
Columnist and Brigham and Women’s University physician Dr. Abraar Karan tweeted May 12 on the reopen protests:
“We are having people scream and protest in large crowds with no masks on all around the country– these are literally all possible set-ups for super-spreading events like the choir practice above
The great irony of protesting during an epidemic, only to create more epidemics.”
Yet presently, during the anti-police protests throughout the country, the experts appear to have abandoned the notion that social distancing is a priority.
“While I have voiced concerns that protests risk creating more outbreaks, the status quo wasn’t going to stop #covid19 either.”
Some experts are claiming that the very cause for which the protesters claim to be marching and rioting is contributory to the viral pandemic itself, and as such, protests for that cause are warranted, as opposed to the move to reopen.  Ranu S. Dillon, expert in infectious diseases at Harvard Medical School, stated:
“Protesting against systemic injustice that is contributing directly to this pandemic is essential.  The right to live, the right to breathe, the right to walk down the street without police coming at you for no reason . . . that’s different than me wanting to go to my place of worship on the weekend, me wanting to take my kid on a roller coaster, me wanting to go to brunch with my friends.”
One group of purported experts went so far as to apparently dismiss outright the risk of viral transmission during the anti-police protests as opposed to reopen protests. 
In a widely circulated open letter, over 1,000 persons, ranging from the un-credentialed, to medical students, and others with various degrees such as MD or MPH, stated: 
“A public health response to these demonstrations is also warranted, but this message must be wholly different from the response to white protesters resisting stay-home orders….we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission….This should not be confused with a permissive stance on all gatherings, particularly protests against stay-home orders.”
They recommend:
“Do not disband protests under the guise of maintaining public health for COVID-19 restrictions.”
Contact tracing itself raises privacy concerns, as contacts understandably would not want their personal information made public.  Experts have appeared to make a complete about-face as to whether there should be concern about current anti-police protests increasing the risk of contracting COVID-19 infection. 
However, disallowing contract tracers from inquiring as to contacts’ presence at protests and riots appears at cross purposes with New York City’s clearly stated goals of testing all citizens and of identifying and quarantining infected individuals and their close contacts. 
Meanwhile in New York, de Blasio is also holding back his police, as per usual.
Here’s the story Law Enforcement Today brought you on that earlier this month.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, not long before his own daughter was arrested in a riot this weekend, said he was taking a “light touch” to the riots in the city.

Everyone in law enforcement knows that the “light touch” isn’t the solution.

The SBA responded in their typical savage fashion:

“If Mayor DeBlasio wants a light touch then let him stand in front and take the first brick to the face. Or perhaps he can sit in a police vehicle and catch the Malatov Cocktail that’s thrown into it. Here’s the light touch, DeBlasio brain.”

The rioters got the message loud and clear from de Blasio, however.

NYPD lieutenant reportedly smashed in the face with a brick during riots shows injuries – Courtesy: Law Enforcement sources, Facebook posts

An NYPD supervisor is lucky to be alive after being hit in the head with what was believed to be a brick in Brooklyn Friday night.

Lt. Robert Corbett typically works in the legal department of the NYPD.

In an image he shared on social media Saturday morning, he’s seen with a blood-stained shirt and a bloody face.

The images were posted to Corbett’s Facebook page and were shared through police sources with Law Enforcement Today.

“So … my face is a brick magnet,” Corbett said in the post.

“Apparently word travels fast so thanks everyone for reaching out. My head hurts and it’s a little hard to talk.”

He was one of many officers injured as protests turned into violence.

Things really started to pop off Saturday afternoon.

The streets were flooded with a blend of demonstrators and rioters on May 29th, all in response to the death of George Floyd.

With reports of police vans being torched in the city, officers from the NYPD being assaulted, and hundreds of people needing to be arrested, Mayor de Blasio stated that his police force had zero to do with what happened several states over in Minnesota:

“I want to just say anyone who wants to protest, we’re going to protect your right to protest, but please also respect [that] the cop in front of you did not create the problem.”

The city mayor’s statements are reflective of a “what’s this got to do with us?” mentality, which is a fair notion.

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Mayor de Blasio also took to Twitter, noting that “deescalating” the situation was top priority, and that he doesn’t “want to see another night like this.”

Interesting that the same mayor who was attacking the Jewish community for saying goodbye to the fallen in funerals recently hasn’t made much of a peep about “social distancing”.

When looking at some of the footage from the May 29th protests in New York City, it’s understandable why the mayor wouldn’t want another episode akin to what played out.

Footage showed physical clashes stemming from protesters trying to fight police while they were enacting arrests.

Certain accounts of the demonstration stated that one officer was punched in the head with brass knuckles, while other reports came in saying a suspect was taken into custody for throwing a trash can at a police officer.

Current estimates of people arrested were around 200 out of the over-3,000 protesters in attendance as of May 30th.

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Video has also surfaced of the smoldering remains of an NYPD police vehicle that was torched during the evening that played out.

A woman was also arrested for attempted murder charges for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at a NYPD police vehicle that had four officers inside at the time. Police were able to exit the vehicle unharmed, and the device luckily did not ignite the van.

Authorities say the woman behind that attack is 27-year-old Samantha Shader. NYPD Chief Terence Monahan said the following about that arrest:

“Those officers are lucky to be alive today. We apprehended that person and they are going to be prosecuted federally. That’s someone not from this community that’s going to hopefully be going away to jail for a long time.”

The suspect’s sister, 21-year-old Darian Shader, was also taken into custody for allegedly interfering with the arrest. The sister is now facing charges of obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest.

Like many other city officials have been mentioning lately, Chief Monahan noted that many of the hostile participants within the protest in New York City seemed to not be from the area:

“This was a very organized attack on police officers that was committed by people not from these communities, not from New York. A lot of outside instigators who were there solely for one reason…to fight the police. This is out of towners, people not part of the communities, people that are coming in to our neighborhoods, into our communities, and causing mayhem.”

The numerous videos of the riot that happened within New York City have flooded Twitter, with instance after instance of vandalism and violence showcased.

Considering all that the city endured between the evening hours of the 29th and the early morning of the 30th, it’s making sense as to why so many were arrested during the demonstration.

While Mayor de Blasio has requested that an independent entity conduct an investigation into the riot that occurred in New York City, even he did not condone the attacks on police:

“They meant to attack police vehicles. And they did. They meant to attack police precincts. And that is all purely unacceptable. It does not reflect our values. We will not accept that.”

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