Posted on 04/20/2020 8:36:36 AM PDT by 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.
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You’re free not to take the test, even the quick 5 minute test.
And private business owners will be free not to let you inside, or not to hire you.
They have rights too.
And it’s not me, it’s private business owners, who came up with the idea of testing would-be customers (if quick tests are developed and become available). That’s their freedom, and yours is not to patronize them.
You are proposing something g you admit is not available It is also not logistically possible. Live in your dream world all you want but stop trying to sell it as reality. The rest of us need to get the country and the economy open
who pays for it is up there with AOC and the green new deal so watch who you are calling a democrat”
Republicans have already voted for $2 trillion in covid - response spending, which includes spending on testing material. So this isn’t an “AOC” thing.
Anyway, I understand that you are negative and “can’t do” on the idea. The folks in Taiwan have been able to pull it off, but hey what do they know?
Without a way for people to get tested easily, the economy is going to stay closed whatever the governors want, because many people will be fearful about going to restaurants, stores, and sport events.
Good. Let all the crazies and virus pumpers stay shut in. Right now their tantrums are a destructive cancer on this nation and our American heritage.
Taiwan is a much smaller country They are not testing everyone multiple times a day and in stadium sized groups as you propose. I am not negative I am realistic. You apparently no nothing about testing or basic math. I am through wasting time replying to you. Have a nice day
know nothing
At least you finally admit that they do it in Taiwan, and it has helped them keep the economy open.
For some reason, you don’t want it done here. But, as you say, have a nice day in your quarantine.
Testing tell us who does or doesn’t have it at a given time today. We have to test those same people tomorrow or next week to see if they still do or don’t have it.
If she doesn’t get things moving soon, she’s gonna run out of pig grease for her face.
No, you don’t. You know how many people are positively impacted by it, because when they get sick, they show up at the testing sites you were supposed to set up for them.
While it will be great to know how many people had it, and how many people were asymptomatic, in the end, what matters is how many people start showing up at hospitals with symptoms. ANd we KNOW THAT INFORMATION.
This whole “we need to test the world” is stupid. South Korea did it, because they could test a person who volunteered, and then use their phones to trace every person that came in contact, and force them all to test.
We don’t live in that world. We can’t contact trace everybody and force people to do tests.
But we will open when we have enough tests available that, when we see an outbreak, we can flood the zone with tests to isolate those who are positive.
NO kidding!! Well, she IS a PIG!
If you haven’t noticed, newbie, Taiwan is a VERY SMALL COU TRY!! Good grief..are you girl or boy?
We are doing more tests a day than some countries have done entirely.
Iceland got praise for testing “10 percent of their population”, and that was about the same number of tests as we ran in New York yesterday.
No matter what we do, we can’t run 10 million tests a day. We can’t just test people once a week, and hope they don’t get the virus during hte other 6 days.
Until we have a 1-dollar test that takes 5 minutes and can be done by millions of people at the same time, we can’t test every day, which is about the closest we could come to using TESTING to verify safety.
Much easier, and more practical, to simply monitor people with symptoms, and jump on any sign of an outbreak, and focus testing there, and let everybody else go on with their lives.
People are in a stadium for 3 hours, and it is open-air, so it isn’t at all like a 14-day cruise on an enclosed ship where nobody can leave.
Are you going to administer 60,000 5-minute tests at the gate, and hold up everybody until their results are back? Are you going to assume a person who tested negative a week ago hasn’t picked it up in the last 6 days?
Anti-body testing will be important to drive the models.
There is an airline that will be administering a cheap test to every person while they wait to board at the gate. That’s not too inconvenient, if they have enough test equipment, they can get through the 300 passengers in 30 minutes, while most people are just sitting around anyway.
One thing I would have already done is to install heat sensors at TSA checkpoints. It isn’t comprehensive, but you could easily stop people who have actual fevers. My son’s company tests every worker each morning on their way in that way.
“If you haven’t noticed, newbie, Taiwan is a VERY SMALL COU TRY!!”
The point is, testing works. That’s a separate question from the logistics of getting it up and running on a mass basis in the US.
But freepers who want to defend our lack of testing keep switching their ground - they will say first that testing is meaningless, but then when I point out that Taiwan has used it to keep the economy open, they no longer say testing is meaningless, they say Taiwan is small enough to use testing.
so now that we’ve established that testing can work in helping keep the economy open, the question is whether and how the US can employ it. Since we were able to vaccinate everybody for polio and smallpox, we already know that it’s possible to reach everybody in the country, through the right efforts. But it probably would have to be rolled out, city by city - one region to the next. one Taiwan-sized community, to the next.
Once we’ve finally got quick- five-minute test kits available, you’ll see private businesses using them before letting people inside, or before hiring someone. The first to start will be cruise ships, probably.
If they have enough test equipment to get through 300 passengers in 30 minutes and the manpower to run 300 tests is the same period of time. Now what about the next flight same airline 1 gate over leaving at the same time or 10 minutes later. Do you really think the airlines will pay for the test equipment and man hours to do this even if it were possible? there are tens to hundreds of thousands of travelers through a busy airport daily.....
Airlines can feel free to do that. I suspect it will be years before their passenger volumes return to where they were before this fiasco began, but I’ve been wrong before. Record numbers of Americans have had no problem getting sodomized by TSA officers even for travel that is entirely discretionary.
...and the mitten has elected some real beauties.
in my lifetime....
daddy mittens...blanchard...granholm....whitmer....
Are you going to administer 60,000 5-minute tests at the gate, and hold up everybody until their results are back?”
I didn’t come up with the idea, I read one of the sports-league executives promote it.
It’s kind ironic to hear complaints about having to wait in line and take a quick test to get in - as if that’s worse than what we’ve got now, where nobody can go in at all and the economy is padlocked.
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