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Orange Blooded [2693]
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This P&C arcticle about Camden is more evidence
Apr 8, 2020, 3:33 PM
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we lost control before the battle really even started. We need some explanation from DHEC why they didn't even try to do contact tracing on Patient 1. The result of this failure is that the coronavirus has affected people in Camden at a rate three times higher than in New York
From the Story:
Carpenter remembers getting an odd email from DHEC. It arrived Jan. 10, two days after the CDC sent a nationwide alert about a new virus in China. The outbreak had begun in a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan and had caused a relatively small number of cases. But Carpenter is a self-described newshound who grew up in Summerville and delivered papers as a teen. He thought DHEC’s email seemed ominous. Soon, his Emergency Medical Services director and staff made plans to buy supplies just in case this bug made it to Kershaw County.
Nearly two months later, his cellphone rang while he was out of town at a conference: DHEC said Kershaw had one of the first COVID-19 cases in South Carolina. He drove back the next day and began mobilizing. Very quickly, he found that DHEC wasn’t digging deep into the source of the outbreak.
“We asked them early on what we could do to help,” he said. “They said, ‘Nothing, we’ve got it under control.’ And we said, ’Are you making any effort to reach out to the known circles (of the first patient)? And they said, ‘No, we’re only reaching out to the immediate family.’” Carpenter volunteered his staff. It was a small town. It wouldn’t take much time to tap the city’s grapevines.
“I said, ‘I’ve got people who can make phone calls here.’ But there was no interest. You know, DHEC is doing the job as best they can. But I think we could have helped them understand early on who was in contact with who.”
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Rock Defender [53]
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DHEC has had a lot of issues IMO
Apr 8, 2020, 3:42 PM
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Orange Blooded [2693]
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I doubt they have many resources
Apr 8, 2020, 5:02 PM
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but I also wonder what assumptions were made.
Did they assume it was just like the flu, so not important? Of course, no one from the agency will admit to a normalcy bias now. But that is the problem when leaders at the top don't take things seriously. Everyone down the line will generally take the same position.
In their defense, public statements from CDC in January made it seem like they also had the same kind of normalcy bias.
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Rock Defender [53]
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Re: I doubt they have many resources
Apr 8, 2020, 5:20 PM
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So what's the story in Albany, GA? That place burned with
Apr 8, 2020, 4:10 PM
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it. I mean Albany freaking Georgia has the highest per capita infection rate in the country, or did once.
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Lot o points [180990]
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Large funerals, church, and other gatherings.
Apr 8, 2020, 4:32 PM
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Healthcare workers unknowingly infected also kept working in nursing homes and hospital.
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Oculus Spirit [93667]
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We're on our own.
Apr 8, 2020, 4:36 PM
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Anyone expecting gov to save them is a moron. Government only saves government.
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You'll be singing a different tune when that Trump check
Apr 8, 2020, 4:44 PM
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arrives 
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Oculus Spirit [93667]
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I'm still waiting on my Obamamoney.***
Apr 8, 2020, 4:54 PM
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