Massive testing can help reopen economy

providence journal ^ | Apr 3, 2020 | Patrice Milos

[Pining_4_TX]

Germany also has extra bucks that it doesn’t have to spend on defense. The American taxpayers pick up a lot of that tab. NATO should be disbanded. They are committing suicide by Islam anyway, not from a threat from Russia.

[Yogafist]

So the people you don’t trust to make adult decisions about protecting their families, neighbors and friends, will be responsible enough to self test every day? And just how would you know who tested and who did not?

[Paladin2]

Somebody has to do the spreading or we’ll never get over the hump.

[Drago]

We are missing a whole class of people by not starting cheap (in-home?) antibody/serology testing for people that have already had COVID and got over it with minimal/flu-like symptoms and are now immune. They could also help people still sick by giving a plasma donation:

https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/03/13/covid-19-antibody-sera-arturo-casadevall/

Those people could also be “freed up” to leave “lockdown” and go back to work, etc..

[glennaro]

Widespread testing is the most expeditious way to restore at least a small measure of sanity to our Nation. Testing of as many oeople as is possible may indicate an infection rate higher than the "regular flu", but based on initial data widespread testing may very well establish a fatality rate equal to or even lower that the "regular flu".

According to the latest reports, an effective vaccine against this Chinese virus may be about 18 months out. May God help us all shoulda mutation or repeat infection occur next winter and widespread testing hasn't been completed to at least help contain not so much the virus itself, but the panic and hysteria that's certain to follow.

[Yogafist]

I 100% agree with that.

[elbook]

The testing mechanism isn’t so easy to create but there are actual brains working on the problem (not just the usual government wankers). American Knowhow and not bureaucracy will do it.

It has to be made to work EN MASSE without some complex lab procedure (needs simple manual procedures) and it has to have a significant accuracy — it has to be mass-produced.

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When it works, the Economy can get back to normal and the leftist pork-abuse can be canceled/rescinded and ‘rewarded’ properly.

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[jjotto]

Integrated DNA Technologies from Iowa has been producing 5 million tests per week for several weeks. They aren’t the 15 minute kind though.