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The Case for Universal Mandatory COVID-19 Testing
Washington Monthly ^ | 10-Apr-2020 | Robert J. Shapiro

Posted on 04/10/2020 4:18:14 PM PDT by SecondAmendment

Without a vaccine, it’s the only safe pathway back to something resembling normal life.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonmonthly.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: covid19
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The deep state is now pushing for the double whammy of mass surveillance with an impossible and unconstitutional requirement of mandatory COVID-19 testing for everyone who wishes to go back to work or school ...
1 posted on 04/10/2020 4:18:14 PM PDT by SecondAmendment
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To: SecondAmendment

We need mandatory testing for liberals. They are all crazy and dangerous and should be shipped overseas to the countries they support like China and Iran or Cuba.


2 posted on 04/10/2020 4:19:45 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: SecondAmendment

I would prefer a voluntary antibody test.


3 posted on 04/10/2020 4:21:39 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: SecondAmendment

As one of The Essentials, I am working now without any testing...


4 posted on 04/10/2020 4:21:46 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government...)
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To: SecondAmendment

They don’t have nearly enough testing capacity for this.


5 posted on 04/10/2020 4:22:53 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: SecondAmendment

Mandatory? No doubt ‘they’ would use things like: “You understand that without it we won’t be able to continue sending your SS checks right?”


6 posted on 04/10/2020 4:23:41 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: TaxPayer2000

“As one of The Essentials, I am working now without any testing...”

Essential work, essential jobs: The universal solution for the stay safe at home complainers.


7 posted on 04/10/2020 4:24:37 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: SecondAmendment

I call BS on this guy!
Every day 8,000 people die in the US. So far what, a little over 7,000 deaths from Wu Man Flu since January. What we need is to stop the hysteria and get on with our lives. 98% of those who get the virus recover. It’s up to us old folks to watch out for ourselves (yeah, I’m an old folk) We’re good at it! Otherwise we wouldn’t be old.


8 posted on 04/10/2020 4:24:37 PM PDT by mistfree (Virginia Freeper)
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To: rktman

I wouldn’t worry too much about SS based on the number of dead people that are still getting deposits.


9 posted on 04/10/2020 4:24:59 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Jamestown1630

Only if you gain immunity from it.


10 posted on 04/10/2020 4:26:11 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: SecondAmendment

The Heritage Foundation is advocating the same thing.

They are an allegedly “conservative think-tank”.


11 posted on 04/10/2020 4:26:24 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: SecondAmendment

Bet your next paycheck that every person who owns a firearm will fail the test and be denied work.

After all, what could go wrong with commie bureaucrat quacks deciding who works and who doesn’t work, right?


12 posted on 04/10/2020 4:27:03 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: SecondAmendment

No mandatory testing. No way, no how. GFY... Time for mass disobedience.


13 posted on 04/10/2020 4:27:09 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: SecondAmendment
IMHO, the passage of pretty much anything that is both, "universal," and, "mandatory," will void our right to call ourselves a constitutional republic.

Frankly, we're already on very damn thin ice as it is.

14 posted on 04/10/2020 4:27:46 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: SecondAmendment

These universal this mandatory that folks are all industry interests talking their book. They should all be tossed out of helicopters.


15 posted on 04/10/2020 4:31:12 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Joe Biden/Zombie Reagan in 2020 - Braaaaaains!)
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To: SecondAmendment

we need a vaccine every year, and every month
BECAUSE THIS creation mutates.

every year, Gates and Soros will get $5000 per person
as they inject HIV genes into the suckers who
allow(ed) this to continue.


16 posted on 04/10/2020 4:32:13 PM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: SecondAmendment
The man is ****ing insane. Or an idiot. Probably both. All of his understanding regarding the human immune response to viruses must come from watching the CDC episode of "Walking Dead".

Yes, they could test everybody -- but the information gained would be completely useless.

17 posted on 04/10/2020 4:32:30 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation gets the government it deserves." -Joseph de Maistre)
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To: lightman

universal mandatory testing? absurd. just another money-making scam.

set aside the unreliability of politicised polling, and consider if the following was carried out in a strict, transparent fashion:

4 Apr: The Hill: How deadly is the coronavirus?
By Lisa Boothe
How deadly is the coronavirus? It is a simple but vital question that we don’t know the answer to right now. With American lives and livelihoods on the line, we need a science-based baseline from which to make public policy decisions. Hopefully those answers come sooner than later as the White House looks to do random sampling, something I recently reported...

John Ioannidis, a Stanford epidemiologist who is famous for debunking bad research, has been pushing for it. He told me that random sampling is needed and could be done with a couple of thousand tests. When I told him that I previously worked in the polling industry, he put it in terms that resonated with me. He said, “Random representative testing is like polling. We run thousands of opinion polls in this country. We should similarly get a representative sample of the population and get them tested. It is just so easy.”...

Random sampling will tell us what percentage of the population has the coronavirus and its lethality. Only testing the very sick skews mortality rates and leaves us in the dark about how many Americans are unknowingly walking around asymptomatic or with mild symptoms...
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/491021-how-deadly-is-the-coronavirus

get on with it.

btw the push for a vaccine rarely explains what such a vaccine is supposed to achieve. for starters, it is allegedly supposed to increase immunity against SARS CoV2, but it would have to be administered annually like the flu shot!

as Amazing Polly said in one of her excellent videos posted on FR (paraphrasing) -

Covid19 is “global warming” for the medical industry.


18 posted on 04/10/2020 4:33:05 PM PDT by MAGAthon ( Fauc)
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To: Joe 6-pack

I think that ice cracked under us some ways back.


19 posted on 04/10/2020 4:34:47 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: rktman
Mandatory? No doubt ‘they’ would use things like: “You understand that without it we won’t be able to continue sending your SS checks right?”

"Citizen, once you've been tested, your Compliance Number will be stamped you the back of your hand, or forehead, if you prefer. That way, all of your fellow Citizens will know that you are safe. And, Employers, shopkeepers and Public Safety Officers will know that you are a good little Citizen!"

/S.... maybe not

20 posted on 04/10/2020 4:39:35 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
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