The Illinois Department of Public Health provided approximately $250 million in funding to local health departments to hire additional people to perform contact tracing during the pandemic, according to a spokesperson. Cook County received $41 million from the state to beef up its contact tracing efforts, allowing the health department to hire 400 people. The city of Chicago received more than $50 million to boost its community-led efforts.
Contact tracing was a scam from day one. It was never going to work, and did absolutely nothing to curb the spread of the virus. It did allow for free money to be spread to the chosen few. And make no mistake, there was little to no actual work done. Many people received two year “contracts” to do the “work”, then sat around doing nothing but cashing checks.
Maybe it’s just me but doesn’t a contact tracer have to go to the persons house and interview them about who they have been with. Then they pick up the virus and give it to others. They should be called Contact Tracing Virus Spreaders.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
More taxpayer’s money going to waste.
Contact tracing was a scam from day one. It was never going to work, and did absolutely nothing to curb the spread of the virus. It did allow for free money to be spread to the chosen few. And make no mistake, there was little to no actual work done. Many people received two year “contracts” to do the “work”, then sat around doing nothing but cashing checks.
Yup that’s how Springfield scum works
Maybe it’s just me but doesn’t a contact tracer have to go to the persons house and interview them about who they have been with. Then they pick up the virus and give it to others. They should be called Contact Tracing Virus Spreaders.