This is completely false because, with contact tracing, we can probabilistically determine who has likely to have had contact and therefore be infected, which is a proven technique for the suppression of COVID.
Korea has implemented this solution, it works, and their economy is open.
By venturing outside without contact-tracing - we know the results: Italy, Spain etc..
Just the opposite ... it's the 'privacy fanatics' who are having difficulty grasping a situation that hits at their preconceived sensitivities.
'Just go outside' will kill is quickly.
'Shelter in place' will kill us slowly.
'Contact tracing policy - (followup, quarantine for those affected) means we can go about our business roughly as normal with only the slight inconvenience of having an 'app' on our phones and possibly wearing masks.
I'm sorry but it's the anti-contact tracing people that are the tip of the anti-science community right now.
Anti contact tracing people are the new 'anti-vaxxers'.
Exactly suppression, not prevention. If you're immunocompromised, old or in a risk group, which most americans are, you're s* out of luck, even with the app, you can't really go outside.
People thinking contact tracing is the silver bullet are just delusional or outright dangerous. Especially if those people also think contact tracing can't be done privacy-friendly.
Your ad-hominems are inappropriate, especially since you are misreading the point and inventing your own interpretation.
Nobody is indicating that 'contact tracing' is a 'silver bullet' and nobody is indicating that 'people won't' die - obviously, dangers exist.
However, here are the results of the 'contact tracing' policy here: [1] are extremely effective.
There are less than 250 deaths in South Korea a population of 24 Million - and they do not have 'shelter in place' orders.
This is very clear scientific evidence of an outstandingly effective solution against COVID, by far the best approach for those nations that cannot hope to eradicate it / keep it out like Taiwan.
America has 10's of thousands dead and an economy that is hurling towards death with millions unemployed, trillions in bailouts, the worst existential calamity since WW2, and everyone is locked in their homes.
The Koreans have very effectively dealt with the problem, kept harm way down their economy is mostly functional.
Privacy is obviously a concern but it's nowhere near the threshold for contemplating existential collapse.
Given the choice between 'stay at home' and 'contact tracing' - over 99% of people would choose 'contact tracing'.
[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore...
