Posted on 05/18/2020 9:29:39 AM PDT by SoCalCynic
Four months into the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, tests for the virus finally are becoming widely available, a crucial step toward lifting stay-at-home orders and safely returning to normal life. But while many states no longer report crippling supply shortages, a new problem has emerged: too few people lining up to get tested.
A Washington Post survey of governors’ offices and state health departments found at least a dozen states where testing capacity outstrips the supply of patients. Many have scrambled to make testing more convenient, especially for vulnerable communities, by setting up pop-up sites and developing apps that help assess symptoms, find free test sites and deliver quick results.
But the numbers, while rising, are well short of capacity — and far short of targets set by independent experts. Utah, for example, is conducting about 3,500 tests a day, a little more than a third of its 9,000-test maximum capacity, and health officials have erected highway billboards begging drivers to “GET TESTED FOR COVID-19.”
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“GET TESTED FOR COVID-19.”
Pay me.
Because widespread testing is a key component of reopening, and because not enough people are being tested (since they don’t have COVID), we need to remain in shutdown indefinitely.
Or at least that’s the logic of a Democrat.
I don’t understand this testing thing - WHO are all these people “lining up to get tested”? Do they all have symptoms or are they just getting tested for the heck of it?
They want more “testing” to make the “cases” number go up so they have an excuse to clutch on to that sweet, sweet, emergency power.
No amount of “testing” is going to prevent you from dying from the Chinese Chest Cold if you are the unlucky .1 percent. Nor is it going to prevent you from catching the Chinese Chest Cold 5 minutes later if you’re negative. In fact, lining up where everyone else who thinks they might have the CCC increases the odds that you actually WILL get it.
Finally, some people don’t want to get their name into “the system”.
The next scam will be renting warehouse space to store the unused testing kits and ventilators.
Just another opportunity for Difi’s realtor hubby to help the government out of a jam.
The plan is to keep us in perpetual lockdown until ballot harvesting in November. No amount of retarded testing will change that.
“Finally, some people don’t want to get their name into “the system”.
*****
and these 2 reason were the biggest for obamacare. The mandatory payment was the biggest factor and this came in second. You are gonna be in the system forever like a pariah and risk being hauled by the govt away from your home like what they proposed in Ventura county? F that.
The Fake News Amazon Washington Post just never stops. For months they kept screaming about “inadequate testing” 24/7.
After President Trump fixed that problem, now it’s not enough people to test?
Why the heck would anyone in Utah or South Dakota who is feeling perfectly fine go and have a test?
Does everyone go and get a TB test for example when they show absolutely no symptoms?
In some states, you need a positive test result to get the HCQ treatment.
The states with high infection rates, MA, CT, NY, and NJ still don’t have enough tests.
As of now, NY and NYC have no shortage of tests.
Testing achieves little other than “case harvesting”. Targeted testing of nursing homes, jails, industries such as meat processors, etc would make sense. Note I said meat processors, not “packers” .
“Testing” not organized and directed towards a purpose (which is what we have) is basically meaningless.
Number of infections/million, incidence of new infections, and IgG antibodies/million are all very, very important pieces of information - and we don’t have any of them.
“Do they all have symptoms or are they just getting tested for the heck of it?”
many are panicked by a few cold sniffles or whatever and rush out to get tested ...
Since the govt. is giving out free money to everyone, I was thinking the same thing.
Having nothing to do at this time, I can hit every testing station in my area a few times a day.......
i suppose the solution is forceable testing, you know, having local police forces round people up while they’re out shopping or whatever and transporting them in handcuffs to local testing centers, somewhat like what the nazis did to the jews, except the end game is a giant qtip jammed up your nose instead of getting a “shower” with Zyklon B ...
The Washington Post wants this lockdown to continue as long as possible so Bezos can keep selling his crap on Amazon.
I’ll get tested if I feel ill otherwise I’ll just go about my normal business.
1) There should never have been any doubt about the free market making enough tests to satisfy demand. The tests are cheap and repeated in large volumes week after week after week. OF COURSE, there will be enough tests!
2) Rapidly expanded testing in recent weeks has not resulted in any significant upturn in the number of positive cases identified. If the goal of testing is to “find” those who are positive, the value of all of these additional tests is stunningly low.
3) On the other hand, if the point of all of these tests is to confirm that individuals or small communities do NOT have the virus — thereby allowing them to get on with their lives — then there is great value in all of these incremental tests. And indeed, I predict that there will be huge demand for these tests for precisely this end. $750/hour attorneys at big NYC law firms, for example, will gladly have everyone in their office tested every Monday and Thursday morning, for example, as well as any client who comes to visit in person. That’s a small price to pay (at, say, $10/test) to get the entire office back to complete normal.
How is it ‘normal’ to have s stick shoved practically into your brain 100+ times per year just to earn a living?
These Fear people can burn in hell.
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