Posted on 03/30/2020 7:28:59 AM PDT by Heartlander
As the not-a-doctor should know, you can test negative one day and positive the next, but morons gotta moron...
Exactly.
Medium is a vanity publishing blog.
He is a psychologist. Not a virologist or even an MD. He has a masters. No doubt he is good at his profession, but his opinion on this is only slightly more valid than someone with an MFA.
I would suggest everyone take this is a huge grain of salt.
If virus particles are inhaled into my lungs or upper sinuses, swabbing my mouth shortly afterward won’t tell the testers that I’m an infected person.
False negatives.
False positives.
Logistics of delivering tests to 326 M people.
Vast country, geographically.
Test kits availability.
Number of people administering tests.
Number of people reading/evaluating test results.
Percentage of people not obeying self-isolation rules.
Conclusion:
Testing everybody: not feasible
None of that is going to happen, and I think the economy is going to suffer, along with a whole bunch of people, for quite some time.
For the USA the numbers are 143,532 and the death toll is 2572.
Not as high as I thought.
I keep remembering that the EUROPEAN death toll over five years from the Bubonic plague was 25 MILLION. We'll never know the world death toll from the plague.
Trump’s $2 trillion relief package won’t be enough, will it?
Millions and Millions of quick test AND...
Millions and Millions of Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin and zinc sulfate dosages.
Some say 50% of all who have the virus may be totally asymptomatic - and otherwise healthy. And then there may be a high percentage of carriers......
So, lock these people up.......for the rest of their lives?????
Right........
A lot of people who think they are smart - aren’t.
Hand sanitizes and wipes should not be in short supply and hard to get.
A young, strapping Dr. Anthony Fauci in all his circa 1980s glory is seen on page 5 of the Koop flyer linked in this article.
BWAHAHAHAHA. Matter of weeks to test 320,000,000 people?! NBWAHAHAHAHAH. What an idiot. And then what’s happening during those weeks even if you could do? Those first people who tested negative could be exposed 5 minutes after you sample them. Now they’re positive, but you show em as negative, oopsie.
Anybody who’s plan revolves around testing everyone might as well demand the sun rise in the west.
Well that’s cute. There aren’t enough tests to test everyone
These so called experts have predicted all sorts of nonsense. Testing everyone does not tell you the answer
I wish they’d get their heads out of the behinds. They are drilling researchers. They get paid because they make things sound way worse than they are
Anyone who has tested positive and is running a fever should receive medication. Waiting for gasping may be too late. Get these contagious folks taken care of. It should be easy to figure out when they’re no longer contagious.
I don’t think so.
Trump is literally Atlas at this point.
It’s up to him to save the world, because the Chinese WMD is going to do real damage, and no one else is up to that task.
Yeah that would be a huge waste of resources.
TRUE enough.
Gee, does that mean that Trump MIGHT beat Biden in November?
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