Posted on 04/26/2020 5:13:38 AM PDT by grumpa
A quasi-consensus has emerged among many policymakers and commentators that the U.S. should continue to close schools and non-essential businesses until coronavirus testing and immunity is widespread. But there is a significant possibility that we are many months, if not years, away from meeting these thresholds. Time is of the essence, given the severe human cost of a prolonged economic shutdown.
The good news is that policymakers have an opportunity to strategically reopen the economy, by taking into account a unique feature of COVID-19: its heavy skew toward bad outcomes in the elderly and the near-elderly who also have other chronic diseases. With the proper precautions, and the deployment of tools like contact tracing, self-quarantines, and telemedicine, we can continue to protect the most vulnerable, while returning as many Americans as possible to work.
We will still need to address high-risk populations, like those in nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, jails, and prisons. But we are persuaded that much more can be done to reopen the economy today, thereby improving the lives of hundreds of millions of low-to-middle income Americans.
What if there’s a 70 year old in otherwise good health who doesn’t want to “self quarantine”? What do you do with that person?
Or these two ER docs who are calling for an end to the shut down in Californian.
Dr. Erickson COVID-19 Briefing
Dr. Erickson COVID-19 Briefing, Pt. 2
Sorry. I forgot to click “This is an excerpt.”
It is already widespread in the community. the lockdown is doing except causing financial and human misery. Just end it now. No strategy necessary
You let them take whatever risk they feel appropriate
From the article:
On March 27, Abbott Laboratories announced the emergency use authorization of a PCR-based SARS-CoV-2 test that it can manufacture at a rate of 50,000 per day. That is an improvement on today’s levels—as of mid-April, the U.S. is testing around 100,000 individuals per day—but with a test that must be administered in clinical settings like a doctor’s office or an urgent care clinic. On April 21, LabCorp announced emergency use authorization for an at-home RT-PCR COVID-19 test kit, but due to scalability issues, LabCorp stated that they are only offering the kit to first responders and health care professionals for the time being.
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Here are two valid tests from two different companies. Why has Trump not put the same energy into creating many duplicates of these companies and the tests they produce like he did for making ventilators?
If there is an at home test, it must involve something simple like a self swab that you mail in. Why can’t trained personnel (how many capable people are now out of work and would love the job?) go door to door on a weekly basis administering these swabs and bringing them back to testing machines that could produce the results?
How many customers do the thousands of fast food chains handle every day? Well we are spending trillions of new found dollars on ‘stimulus’. Spend it on something tangible like testing facility’s as ubiquitous as McDonalds and Wendys. Right now there are more than enough out of work to staff them.
This is a just a brief summary of what I think could be done and I find it very frustrating that this thinking is just tossed aside because it’s asking too much or it isn’t perfect.
We can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. A massive push to test massive numbers will quickly end this. And unless they are keeping some secret from us I still haven’t heard the answer as to what is going to allow us to freely go back to going to sports arenas, malls, gyms, etc. without bringing home a virus that will take out grandma.
We are a country that has always found ways to do extraordinary things. Rather than find reasons not to do them. Now we something extraordinary more than ever.
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“If there is an at home test, it must involve something simple like a self swab that you mail in. “
Heard a rep from a lab announce just that this past week on Varney’s show. Seemed like they’re already in production.
Why has Trump not put the same energy into creating many duplicates of these companies and the tests they produce like he did for making ventilators?
Because evidence is mounting that having the antibodies doesn’t make one immune. We don’t know if herd immunity actually works with the variants of this virus and how we’re finding it manifests across age groups. Elderly basically respiratory failure, others organ failure, now they are finding excessive blood clotting in the 30 year old age group. The virus has a lot of tricks up it’s sleeve...even including either going into latency and flaring back up like herpes or others able to be re-infected.
Geez...still sounds like this thing was crafted in a weapons lab or something...
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I am primarily talking about testing for who has it and who does not have it. If we eliminate hosts (by quarantining those who test positive) to carry it from one person to another then it dies immediately.
And can you cite the specific mounting evidence you referred to above concerning antibodies and immunity?
You stated that there is ‘mounting evidence’.
I see zero actual evidence in the story you linked.
Please read things carefully before passing on propaganda from places like the W.H.O. who seek to exploit fear for their own gain.
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