CDC surveillance ...for your safety, of course

[blackangst1]

I had no idea this was going on. As if the Patriot Act wasnt enough, the CDC will now surveil everyone at select airports to "keep an eye out for the Omicron variant of coronavirus in travelers"

wut?

How can they see the virus through a camera? Oh wait thats not it. They will profile people based on where they came from? No that cant be it.

I dont like this one damn bit.

CDC expanding surveillance at 4 major US airports to look for Omicron (msn.com) [CNN]

 

[repoman0]

… dude. You realize they’re talking about testing right, not cameras? 😂

 

[sandorski]

You're overthinking.

 

[interchange]

I had no idea this was going on. As if the Patriot Act wasnt enough, the CDC will now surveil everyone at select airports to "keep an eye out for the Omicron variant of coronavirus in travelers"

wut?

How can they see the virus through a camera? Oh wait thats not it. They will profile people based on where they came from? No that cant be it.

I dont like this one damn bit.

CDC expanding surveillance at 4 major US airports to look for Omicron (msn.com) [CNN]

There is a decided lack of details in the article about how exactly testing is being used. Is it mandatory? Does the CDC collect any personal data? Etc. They did talk about working with airlines to get passenger information to help with contact tracing when relevant.

These kinds of things are not news. Several infectious diseases have mandatory reporting to public health departments for purposes of contact tracing.

 

[Zorba]

Link doesn't work for me, but desease surveillance has been going on for a long time and has nothing to do with cameras.

Likely them taking samples from randomly selected passengers.

 

[blackangst1]

I guess I'm not smart enough to know surveillance didn't mean without cameras. That's what it's always meant.

 

[fskimospy]

While this has nothing to do with cameras or anything like that it’s also kind of funny to be worried about surveillance and privacy in an airport.

You know, the place where the airlines share passenger data with the government, the place that’s covered with cameras, the place where you have to submit ID to be allowed in, the place where you must consent to search on demand, etc. etc.

 

[dank69]

While this has nothing to do with cameras or anything like that it’s also kind of funny to be worried about surveillance and privacy in an airport.

You know, the place where the airlines share passenger data with the government, the place that’s covered with cameras, the place where you have to submit ID to be allowed in, the place where you must consent to search on demand, etc. etc.

Always on the prowl for anything that can be used to hit liberals with the nanny-state hammer.

 

[blackangst1]

While this has nothing to do with cameras or anything like that it’s also kind of funny to be worried about surveillance and privacy in an airport.

You know, the place where the airlines share passenger data with the government, the place that’s covered with cameras, the place where you have to submit ID to be allowed in, the place where you must consent to search on demand, etc. etc.

Ah right. My bad. What's so bad about one more agency.

 

[blackangst1]

Always on the prowl for anything that can be used to hit liberals with the nanny-state hammer.

Not from me. Noone had more for the nanny state than the GOP.

 

[fskimospy]

Ah right. My bad. What's so bad about one more agency.

I mean it’s a place where they literally xray your belongings and subject you to a backscatter scan of your entire body after your name is run through a government database to screen you for possibly suspicious activity.

What I would say is if personal privacy were a priority of mine I don’t think the CDC checking to see if I was infected with a deadly, highly contagious virus would be the thing I objected to.

 

[pauldun170]

Trying my best to post without insulting people that really deserve it

NEW YORK — Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin visited John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday to see one of the nation’s first air travel COVID-19 monitoring programs sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The program, which is a partnership between the CDC and companies XpresCheck and Ginkgo Bioworks, is being called a bio surveillance program to help monitor and track new variants like omicron. It provides free COVID-19 testing to international travelers arriving from select countries.

New York state is hoping this will allow health officials to combat the spread of the omicron variant more effectively ahead of the holiday season. The program is also performing viral sequencing on positive test samples to help detect occurrences of the omicron variant. The goal is to quickly alert public health authorities to specific concerning changes with the virus.

“The detection of the omicron variant among arriving travelers, and the subsequent rapid public health interventions that followed, demonstrate the importance and effectiveness of this collaborative airport-based surveillance testing program,” said Dr. Martin Cetron, the director of the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the CDC.

Infectious diseases monitoring | XpresCheck

XpresCheck - monitoring of incoming international fliers to help detect new variants of COVID-19 and other emerging infectious diseases in collaboration with the CDC.

xprescheck.com

U.S. races to detect and track omicron, hampered by an unwieldy surveillance system

What's the U.S. doing to watch out for the omicron variant? Here's the work underway and the challenges that experts say may slow down the country's efforts.

www.npr.org

From the article

Dr. Rochelle Walensky told a White House Covid-19 briefing that the CDC is expanding surveillance with XpresCheck, a testing service at airport terminals, to the following four places:
-- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
-- John F. Kennedy International Airport
-- Newark Liberty International Airport
-- San Francisco International Airport

She noted they are four of the busiest international airports in the country.
The Biden administration imposed new restrictions on travel from eight southern African countries, including South Africa, late last week. Omicron was first reported by South African health authorities.
But Delta Air Lines, with headquarters and major operations in Atlanta, said it plans to continue its Atlanta-Johannesburg flights.
United Airlines also said it does not plan to scale back service between Newark and Johannesburg and will restart its route to Cape Town, also in South Africa, next week as planned.
his new effort is actually an expansion of a biosurveillance program first launched in September that provided testing for travelers arriving from India at JFK, Newark and San Francisco, according to XpresSpa Group, the parent company of XpresCheck.

 

[JD50]

I guess I'm not smart enough to know surveillance didn't mean without cameras. That's what it's always meant.

They explain it in the article you linked... you read it before posting this right?

 

[pauldun170]

They explain it in the article you linked... you read it before posting this right?

Why would he do that?
Conservative websites never demand that you read the article.
Just read the headline, skim the content and wait for the FoxNews on the television to tell you how you should be clutching the pearls over the headline you just read.

Unless OP is truly concerned about the United States testing people ARRIVING from specific countries being screened.

The CDC’s program, conducted in collaboration with XpresCheck and Ginkgo Bioworks, offers two types of free testing options. The first is a PCR test done on a pooled sample collected at the airport on arrival. A pooled test means several passengers’ samples are combined together and tested as a group. This approach enables efficient large-scale testing of many passengers entering the country. The second option is an at-home specimen collection kit that passengers can take with them and mail back a sample collected three to five days after arrival into the United States for individualized PCR testing.

Clutch my pearls that international travelers arriving to the United States be screened for a virus that killed 352,000 people in 2020 and 470,000+ Americans in 2021
Clutch my fucking pearls
Screening people entering the country.

 

[fskimospy]

Why would he do that?
Conservative websites never demand that you read the article.
Just read the headline, skim the content and wait for the FoxNews on the television to tell you how you should be clutching the pearls over the headline you just read.

Unless OP is truly concerned about the United States testing people ARRIVING from specific countries being screened.


Clutch my pearls that international travelers arriving to the United States be screened for a virus that killed 352,000 people in 2020 and 470+ Americans in 2021
Clutch my fucking pearls

Look, if you wanted to ban them from traveling to the US entirely that’s one thing, and conservatives support that. Asking them to submit to voluntary testing though? Chill out, Adolf.

 

[blackangst1]

They explain it in the article you linked... you read it before posting this right?

That's my bad. Guess i read surveilance and got triggered.

Another blackangst 1 fail.

They should change it from surveillance to random testing IMHO.

 

[blackangst1]

Why would he do that?
Conservative websites never demand that you read the article.
Just read the headline, skim the content and wait for the FoxNews on the television to tell you how you should be clutching the pearls over the headline you just read.

Unless OP is truly concerned about the United States testing people ARRIVING from specific countries being screened.


Clutch my pearls that international travelers arriving to the United States be screened for a virus that killed 352,000 people in 2020 and 470+ Americans in 2021
Clutch my fucking pearls
Screening people entering the country.

Didn't realize CNN was a conservative website.

 

[K1052]

Omicron gonna sue the CDC in court for this blatant invasion of its HIPAA rights.

 

[dullard]

I guess I'm not smart enough to know surveillance didn't mean without cameras. That's what it's always meant.

Disease surveillance in the United States has been around since 1741. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6103a2.htm

Cameras that take modern photographs were invented in the mid 1800s. https://www.automate.org/blogs/the-invention-of-the-camera

 

[dank69]

Didn't realize CNN was a conservative website.

Taking bets you found it on some whackjob site designed to spin you up, then you went looking for a legit source without reading it to find out how your whackjob site lied to you.

 

[balloonshark]

Now that you're on the CDC's radar you should focus your attention to the van parked on your street 3 minutes ago.

 

[pauldun170]

Taking bets you found it on some whackjob site designed to spin you up, then you went looking for a legit source without reading it to find out how your whackjob site lied to you.

Since he found it through MSN, it was probably the typical routine of it was there when he opened up the browser (either msn is his homepage or he left all the crap as default with windows). He saw the words CDC and surveillance close together and clicked as soon as he could.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I haven't been on any airport property in over 20 years and don't plan to be ever again, so ... shrugs ...

 

[MrSquished]

Surveillance is a weird word to use in regards to random testing for an airborne disease. Should be something like CDC to start random screenings of passengers at airports.

 

[ivwshane]

Surveillance is a weird word to use in regards to random testing for an airborne disease. Should be something like CDC to start random screenings of passengers at airports.

I think “targeted screening” would be more accurate.