A Thread on the UNDERreported but RELENTLESS contact tracing in China.
Harbin city said on April 11 that it discovered 2 confirmed patients and 3 asymptomatic infections since April 9.
In 2 days, Harbin found 456 close contacts of them and put all of them under quarantine
of the identified 456 close contacts, 155 now in centralized quarantine, 351 now in home isolations.

That's despite the fact that 2 of the 5 (3 confirmed+2 asymptomatic infections) 不配合流调工作 "don't cooperate with the govt in contact tracing".

On the other hand
I've been hearing Dr. Anthony Fauci repeating "contact tracing" a ZILLION times on CNN in the past weeks

But has any contact tracing been done AT SCALE AT ALL?
Contact tracing is NOT when John found out he tests positive, he voluntarily, on his own, then texts or phones people he thought he was in close contact in recent days.

That's John doing his noble civic responsibility, NOT contact tracing as a govt public health policy PRIORITY
Nobody is lecturing the U.S. on contact tracing. It's the widely-respected Dr. Anthony Fauci who has been repeating that for weeks now.
@alboyd_aka_LiLe said he is aware of ONE contact tracing program in U.S.
Is that ALL? What about in Europe? https://twitter.com/alboyd_aka_LiLe/status/1249325919816298496
What contact tracing infrastructure has been put in place to implement Fauci's preachings?
When Jone is positive, people have to rely on John's own volition to text and call his close contacts?
What if Jone doesn't know some guy's number? What if Jone forgets a place he went to?
This is a notice sent out by Yanggu Countyto warn residents of a confirmed person's whereabouts and timing in the past 2 weeks or so:
17:38 at a restaurant, stayed 3 mins
19:34 - 20:07 at a certain supermarket
resulting in 28 centralized quarantine and over 100 home isolations
Whether/how China squashed the pandemic is constantly questioned

I DON'T intend to convince anybody of anything,
BUT is there any understanding of how much hard work that involves?

Finding and isolating 456 close contacts from 5 cases in 2 days, that's one of them.
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