Posted on 04/28/2020 11:41:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
"In May, we are going to be doing more testing in this country," Admiral Brett Giroir promised at Monday's coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden. States with the least amount of testing will double the overall amount per capita that South Korea has done in four months, he said. That includes 20 million swabs scattered among the states.
ABC's Jonathan Karl asked the task force about a promise they made on March 13 that the government would be drastically increasing drive up testing sites. By his count, he said, only 69 of those test sites had been set up by the companies that had come to the White House. He added that Pence said that 4 million tests would be made available by the following week.
The exchange comes at 42:47.
President Trump Holds a News Conference
"We've just now got there," Karl noted, asking Pence what went wrong and what lessons they've learned.
"Jon I appreciate the question but it represents a misunderstanding on your part," the vice president responded.
What Karl was missing, Pence explained, was "the difference between having a test versus having the ability to actually process the test."
When Pence was appointed to the task force two months ago, he said that there was a large amount of test kits being produced, but the old system "would never be able to process the tests we need during an epidemic." So President Trump assembled commercial labs and asked them to put their energy into high speed testing.
"There was no disconnect at all," Pence insisted to ABC's Karl.
Now, the VP said, we're at a point where we've done 5.5 million tests to date, and we will soon be at the point where can administer as many as 2.2 million tests per week.
Trump added we have the most and the best testing "by far" in the world.
"We've met this moment with American ingenuity," Pence said.
Perhaps the president is on to something when he noted that for weeks the press challenged the White House on ventilators. When the government caught up and actually exceeded the country's need for ventilators, the media went mum. Now, all he hears is "testing, testing, testing." He accused reporters like Karl last week of never being satisfied with his administration.
If you have no symptoms would you consent/volunteer to take the test? There have been reports that some people have antibodies for COVID-19 but never had any symptoms. My assumption is if you test positive you have to Coronateen for 14 days. Two weeks sick leave if you have it but maybe not, unemployment pay depending on state and company policy. Not only that but anyone you have been in contact with in the last number of days will be tracked down and tested and they would Coronateened. Your friends might not be happy if you volunteered for the test.
Here is my position: I think we should let "herd immunity" to work its way. Yes, it may cause more elderly to pass on, but if in their 70's, 80's, 90's, they are at end of life anyway. I'm 70. I know I sound callous, but I'd rather have more end life seniors die than our country die from economic collapse, and that is what's happening daily. Think of all the millions who died in our wars to support our way of life. Perspective.
I’ll say this until I’m blue in the face:
THER IS NO MISUNDERSTANDINGS! It’s all on purpose.
As Trump put today in th Ron De Santis meeting: you want me to test 350 million people 37 times, right?
On other occasions Trump told the press: no matter how many tests we do, it’s NOT enough!
Liberal and media ‘stupidity’ is highly exaggerated. They’re on the ball, their rat ball, not the country’s. They love to be called stupid, ignorant and dumb rather than the alternative, which is having to apologize 50 times a day!
We should hold them responsible and demand an apology, even for being stupid, dumb and/or ignorant.
Today,in the same meeting, Dr. Brix corrected someone, and Trump demanded an apology about the fact that we test more than SK.
Obviously, there was none coming!
Put -——> put it
Brix-—>Birx
This is what testing means:
1) Your personal health status becomes part of semipublic record.
2) If you test positive you AND YOUR HOUSEHOLD will be required to quantentine—this is more serious than just “stay home”—for fourteen days or until two negative tests.
3) You will be required to list all of your contacts.
4) They will be presumed exposed/positive and subjected to the same restrictions as your household unless they SUBMIT to testing.
5) Those unable to self isolate will be placed elsewhere.
STILL THINK THIS IS SUCH A GREAT IDEA?
3) above = tracing
4) and 5) describes what happens to those “traced”
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