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The DeWitt/Piatt Bi-County Health Department earlier this week announced four new cases of the coronavirus in DeWitt County.

Three share a household and live in Farmer City. They include a 44-year-old female and her two sons. Contact tracing is at a stand-still due to a lack of cooperation.

Unreal.

posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 4:27 pm

Comments

‘Merica…….amirite

Comment by Frank talks Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 4:28 pm
I’ve blocked people on Facebook sharing posts calling contract tracers “snitches”…if you fear someone is snitching on your behavior, aren’t you admitting doing something wrong?

Comment by NIU Grad Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 4:33 pm
We don’t have to tell you anything; it’s our right to spread disease. /snark. They should also be declared mental health hazards to the community, and cordoned off, complete with the old-style “QUARANTINED” signs prominently posted.

Comment by revvedup Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 4:33 pm
===the old-style “QUARANTINED” signs===

The local public health department has an absolute legal right to do that. But we’ve discussed its director before here. He ain’t exactly on the program.

Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 4:35 pm
Everyone knows that contact tracing is a socialist plot to deny our constitutional right to kill ourselves and deny our rights to go fishing. The gall of someone wanting to know who I made sick.

Like the tramp said, if there isn’t any testing, there wouldn’t be a covid19 crisis. It’ll just go away.

Comment by Huh? Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 4:38 pm
Seems like there ought to be a Blazing Saddles quote for this…..

Comment by Blue Bayou Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 4:43 pm
Sounds as if somebody doesn’t want somebody else to know who they’ve been “contacting” with.

Or, they could just be watchers of FOX News.

Comment by Streator Curmudgeon Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 4:43 pm
I’m assuming these people don’t have Facebook or apps on their cell phone. Because if they do they’d be surprised how much Silicon Valley is profiting of them, but that’s OK it’s capitalism.

Comment by Almost the weekend Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 4:44 pm
There is court remedy for this if somebody steps up to the plate.

Comment by Holding Back Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 4:44 pm
The multitudes of people who feel entitled to do what they want and the hell with the rest of us are the true enemies of this country.

And kudos to Dr Redfield for not changing his original recommendations on schools reopening

Comment by WeAreAVillage Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 4:50 pm
With that attitude, I wouldn’t trust any information that they provide anyway.

Comment by Stones Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 5:01 pm
It is Farmer City so not much of a surprise. Sad and unpatriotic, but not a surprise.

Comment by JS Mill Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 5:03 pm
The irony of these folks that want to open everything up but don’t want to participate in contact tracing. This is a comedy of the ignorant. Contact tracing tells us where the virus is and how it is spread. Contract tracing produces the data that can help determine who we should protect. Contract tracing if done correctly and with full compliance can actually help prevent a complete closure of the economy. It is all about data.

Comment by Nagidam Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 5:03 pm
=== But we’ve discussed its director before here.===

You mean we have a senior public service administrator that works for the state and is afraid of drawing any kind of attention to themselves?

Comment by Candy Dogood Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 5:05 pm
Not unbelievable at all, if you’ve spent any time there (I have family in the area). It’s just sad. They can’t even do enlightened self-interest.

Comment by Monadnock Pigeon Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 5:15 pm
Not their fault. Somebody fluoridated their water in the 1950s and it has been downhill ever since.

Comment by DuPage Saint Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 5:19 pm
Not someone you want to go to an actual war with… but I’m sure they consider themselves patriots. Someone needs to explain working together for the good of the country to them… I’m sure they profess to care, while they act exactly opposite

Comment by Lincoln Lad Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 5:28 pm
My dad wrote a great song a few years ago called “Red State Blues” and it includes the line, “I got mine, to h*** with you.” I never thought Illinois would was one of those places.

Y’all are breaking my heart.

Comment by Britta Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 5:39 pm
A county in New York had to issue subpoenas and it worked. But when somebody is staring at a $2,000 fine it’s amazing how much more cooperative they become.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/us/coronavirus-contact-tracing-subpoena/index.html

Candy Dogood, what on Earth are you talking about? This is a LOCAL public health department, it has nothing to do with IDPH.

Comment by MyTwoCents Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 5:43 pm
MyTwoCents- “This is a LOCAL public health department, it has nothing to do with IDPH.”

Uhmm… quite a bit-

https://www.ilga.gov/commission/jcar/admincode/077/077006000E05000R.html

Entire Code-

https://www.ilga.gov/commission/jcar/admincode/077/07700600sections.html

Comment by Anon221 Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 6:09 pm
- MyTwoCents -, I believe Anon221 has pretty well addressed my point.

There apparently some folks at the IDPH that would rather look the other way than make a stir about local public officials failing to do their jobs.

Comment by Candy Dogood Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 6:36 pm
Local HD work for the Board of Health and County Board.No local political pressure😏

Comment by Cubird Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 9:40 pm
Not only do we as Illinoisans and Americans have the virus as a challenge, we have so many uncooperative people setting us back, including certain so-called leaders. Having a country means that during national crises we find a way to unite and overcome.

Comment by Grandson of Man Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 10:31 pm
Candy - your consistent mode of being loud and uninformed is impressive. Even when directly corrected, you double down. Nice.

Comment by Say What? Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 10:46 pm
I feel like I must have hit pretty close to the mark for a quip like that to get any attention.

I guess I missed the state reigning in local governments behaving badly.

Comment by Candy Dogood Thursday, Jul 9, 20 @ 11:57 pm
I haven’t been anywhere in years that I would feel a need to keep private from anybody. Definitely wouldn’t have a problem discussing my last 14 days of activity with a tracker. Of course there would be the caveat that it’s been so boring that I might not remember it: Grocery store, Gas station, work.

Comment by thoughts matter Friday, Jul 10, 20 @ 9:09 am
You have the right to be sick. You have the right to die. You do not have the right to withhold information concern your recent whereabouts and those with whom you have had contact. Refusing to share the locations you have visited, the names and contact information of those with whom you have had contact endangers your family, friends and neighbors. If we determine from others that you infected them, you will be charged with reckless endangerment. If they die, you will be charged with reckless homicide. If your children become ill, you will be charged with child endangerment and they will be removed from the household for their protection. Do you understand what I have read to you?

Comment by Huh? Friday, Jul 10, 20 @ 9:20 am
Lincoln Lad, you nailed it with the word “patriot”. Somehow we need a national campaign saying cooperation with contact tracing and wearing masks is a patriotic duty. We all survive or sink together. The sad part is this won’t happen.

Comment by illinifan Friday, Jul 10, 20 @ 9:21 am
===Of course there would be the caveat that it’s been so boring that I might not remember it===

If you have a smart phone there’s a very good chance that the mapping app has been keeping track of where you’ve been for the entire time you’ve had the app, including over multiple devices if you use the same login with Apple/Google. The tracking isn’t perfect or 100% accurate either, but can certainly help at a time like this.

In most cases we’ve technically opted into the service provided by the app, and we can opt out.

Comment by Candy Dogood Friday, Jul 10, 20 @ 9:29 am
This is not exclusively a central Illinois problem…

“Contact tracing, that’s never going to work, particularly in the African American community where trust is a big issue”

https://www.kqed.org/science/1965269/for-black-and-latino-communities-trust-is-an-issue-for-coronavirus-testing-contact-tracing

“A lot of communities of color, for a variety of reasons and rightfully so, don’t trust the government and don’t trust that government has their best interests at heart,” said Tekisha Dwan Everette, executive director of Health Equity Solutions, a Connecticut health-equity policy group.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/contact-tracing-needs-community-buy-in-to-succeed-in-virus-fight

Comment by Donnie Elgin Friday, Jul 10, 20 @ 9:34 am
* Do you understand what I have read to you? *

LOL - lucky for us you aren’t in charge.

Comment by Wood Chuck Friday, Jul 10, 20 @ 10:06 am
==I haven’t been anywhere in years that I would feel a need to keep private from anybody. Definitely wouldn’t have a problem discussing my last 14 days of activity with a tracker. Of course there would be the caveat that it’s been so boring that I might not remember it: Grocery store, Gas station, work. ==

Same. But even if I was something other than boring, I would still be up for tracing. If it could save a life (even if it’s one in Farmer City), I’m in.

Comment by Monadnock Pigeon Friday, Jul 10, 20 @ 10:34 am