Whitmer: In order to open the economy we have to know how much COVID-19 is in our state

WWMT ^ | April 17 | Mikensie Frost

[Mrs. P]

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said social distancing is working but it is too early to detail a specific plan on when to reopen the economy.

[goodtomato]

Correct! I would add, you could of got it yesterday, but didn’t test positive today, but will test positive tomorrow.

[glennaro]

Testing is not nonsense, but your conditions are nonsense as is your breathtakingly weak comparison of a cruise ship with a stadium. Take a half a second to think about that.

[cmj328]

Indoor stadiums should be the last thing to reopen.

Whitmer is saying no speedboating until there’s widespread testing. Because she wants to deepen the Depression and create a strong enough demand for leftwing social programs to win the 2020 elections.

[1Old Pro]

Cuomo is using the same delay tactic, making his state suffer and ruining people’s lives.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Moving the goalposts. We had to “flatten the curve”. Fine. Outside greater NYC there is NO chance of the hospital system being overwhelmed. Now we are hearing “until there is a vaccine”, “until no one gets it ever again” and “ we have to know exactly how much we have” (without saying “how much” is the threshold we are seeking). This is nonsense.

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Yes, you are right. This is nonsense. However, these people do not have good judgement, and they are in charge. If we want an open and free country, with an economy, we must push for it!

[LateBoomer]

It shouldn’t take much mass testing to determine that many people have already had it and recovered.

So far as testing to startup the economy again — wouldn’t everyone have to be tested every day to determine if they could transmit the virus? And aren’t the experts still in agreement that you can transmit the virus long before a test reveals you have it?

While it sounds good on the surface, I think testing is another massive shift of the goalposts in order to keep the lockdowns going.

[hoosiermama]

Great Britain is training dogs to sniff out the virus. It takes the dogs one half a second to determine if the person is positive or negative. Article was posted here two days ago.

IMO a great tool for airports and stadiums.

[American in Israel]

Why is massive testing important? So bean counters can stack paperwork in trailers? Is there a magic number that triggers a green light on someone’s desk?

Or is starvation and economic collapse the magic trigger to get these little gods to make the decision that has finally brought meaning to their otherwise useless lives?

The little testing we have done shows all the social distancing did not stop the virus. Social distancing is a THEORY, that cost us decades of wealth. We traded an economy that was leading the world out of Global Opression for NOTHING but empty statistics of “Scientists”.

FOOLISHNESS.

We are F’ed and it was rape. It’s just a FLU bro.

[LateBoomer]

Sorry, but it’s counter-productive to continue the lockdowns in full. Empty stadiums don’t warrant a total lockdown. We need to re-open what we can where we can.

[1Old Pro]

Why is massive testing important?

All other delay tactics have been exhausted.

[LateBoomer]

What’s the population of Taiwan compared to the USA?

[BookmanTheJanitor]

[Rebelbase]

Meanwhile Sweden continues business as usual. Where are the millions of dead there?

[1Old Pro]

We can open up the states once everyone is tested and Trump provides billions to the states as their incompetence is bankrupting their states and making people’s lives miserably as Dem Governors put them thru hell for no scientific reason, purely political.

[SaxxonWoods]

“And we’ll never know that...”

[SaxxonWoods]

“And we’ll never know that...”

[Buckeye McFrog]

I have no idea why the administration slept on ramping up testing for so long.

Because tests do not grow on trees, and you can't pull them out of your ass.

Actually gearing up to manufacture something is HARD. It involves a complex series of tasks that require mass coordination all along the supply chain. And in the case of medical tests it involves painstaking validation steps to ensure that the final product is reasonably accurate. Trump does not just sign an executive order and poof, some elves go into a tree and produce 100 million for use the following day.

What the Trump Administration has done here is nothing short of amazing given the burnt-out wreck of a system that Obama left them.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Why is massive testing important? All other delay tactics have been exhausted.

Because a bunch of people incapable of critical thought who understand nothing about manufacturing, economics, or the practical realties of dealing with human behavior think all you have to do is test all 350 million of us and quarantine the ones who don't pass the test.

So many problems with that I won't burn up this whole thread detailing them.

[Go Gordon]

I have no idea why the administration slept on ramping up testing for so long.

Do you think there are 330 million test kits available? When you test somebody this week, do you have to test them again next week? The fact you have no idea why testing wasn't ramped up earlier, doesn't mean anyone was asleep.

[rintintin]

“What’s the population of Taiwan compared to the USA?”

So you’re not denying that testing has helped Taiwan keep its economy open?