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A method of keeping tract of the contacts a person with an infectious disease has, to prevent the spread of the disease. Tracing can be used to find the original source of the disease by looking at one's contacts before they were infected, and after they were infected to see who they may have spread the disease to. Once individuals who had contacts with the disease have been identified they are tested for the disease, to stop them from disease spreading behavior till their condition has been identified. If individuals are found to be infected with the disease they continue to stop any disease spreading behavior, (e.g. isolation) and are treated, so they don't spread the disease to others.
People in charge of public health and the spreading of VD, have being using contact tracing long before those fighting the lasted pandemic used it.
by mlhiss April 24, 2020
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by mlhiss June 2, 2020
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Students often try to find a ghostworking job so they can study, or write their novel. But most employers frown on it especially in jobs like security in high security areas - which may seem boring if they are doing their job well, and stopping people who may otherwise be tempted to trespass or steal, if buildings were not monitored.
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The Speaker of the US House of Representatives who is responsible for starting the impeachment process felt slighted when the President was increasingly "becoming self-impeachable"
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Exuberant small short term investors in the stock market that pursue get-rich-quick dreams. Dumb small time investors filled with with a passionate intensity of a sports better., and the brains of a bubble head.
The retail bros are on the move, investing so much in duds that the worst possible investments work for those that by low and quickly sell high, but a bust for long term investors.
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