Also, Seattle was one of the states designated a month agp by the CDC to do testing. So they were part of the initial rollout. They had to pause while the third reagent was being worked out, but could have already had a lot of tests ready to deploy.
“Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters that the CDC will be working alongside public health laboratories in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago and New York City to begin testing for COVID-19.”
But, as a state, they had full authority to do whatever they wanted anyway.
At their own expense though.
In all these threads, and I’ve read them all; I don’t know why coronavirus attracted my attention so -
It is easy to forget that about thirty people have died in the US so far.
It’s thirty too many. And I know it will go up.
But we lose about 90 per day in car crashes. This puts things in perspective for me. I am not angry at Trump. We need a measured response. The damage done by the reaction to this virus has been too extreme. I do believe that high risk folks should take extra precautions and that the health care system should prepare.
But shutting down life as we know it is very harmful to us all. If we started to lose say 180 per day, twice as many as car crashes? I’d expect the heavier response that many here are advocating.
Yes I know we want to act not react. But I am seeing FReepers saying institute martial law, close all campuses, forbid gatherings, bug out and don’t return for months, they are quitting jobs or essentially daring employers to fire them, cancel rallies, ban travel, force quarantine of healthy people ... I can’t support it.