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Re:I hired a team of shoppers to find out how businesses wer... by SpicyLemonZest on Monday May 11, 2020 @10:25AM (#23142459)
It's not clear that it has been. Singapore was at that point, until a sudden spike in new cases overwhelmed them and they had to lock down. South Korea just re-closed their bars and pushed back school reopenings, because a single guy started a cluster of 80 cases and they don't trust their contact tracing to handle that many. Taiwan and Vietnam are either lucky or have better strategies than simply "do a lot of contact tracing", but in either case it's not obvious that other countries can replicate their success.
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Re:I hired a team of shoppers to find out how businesses wer... by davidw on Monday May 11, 2020 @10:37AM (#23142595)
It's not eradication, but it's a much more fine-grained tool that lets some of the economy open back up in a safer way. It's what we should be aiming for everywhere.

The US might not be able to do quite as well, but it feels like we're barely even trying.

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Re:I hired a team of shoppers to find out how businesses wer... by SpicyLemonZest on Monday May 11, 2020 @10:45AM (#23142669)
Agreed. But everywhere I know of, including Texas, is indeed aiming to do lots of contact tracing so opening up the economy is safer.
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