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.