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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Same people who want open borders and don’t want illegal immigrants identified
The administration is simultaneously doing a number of things politically.
1. Putting out an “official” re-opening plan.
2. Dumping (after 6 weeks of non-accomplishments) all testing responsibility onto the states.
3. Spreading social media posts blaming the state governors for not re-opening their economies, even though doing so would violate all the stipulations in 1. the official re-opening plan.
Trump said 10 day ago that he was the one and the only one who would make the call on re-opening. He has now backed fully away from that stance to the opposite one. Blame the governors for not re-opening, while completely evading responsibility for either helping them do so, or supporting their efforts to put the conditions in place that would allow them to do so.
It’s a tour de force display of blame-shifting jiu-jitsu.
I didn’t say testing was nonsense. I said that it wasn’t necessary to have everyone tested before opening things back up. Vulnerable people should stay away from football stadiums and crowded supermarkets, too.
People can have themselves tested at their own discretion, and that should be funded. Those who have already had it can move on with little concern or either contracting it nor infecting others.
Sweden has a reasonable approach to this.
It's in Detroit, and it's not in garden supply stores, paint stores and on boats in the lakes.
Testing is only good for a point in time. Someone can test negative today and then positive tomorrow. How is this supposed to solve anything?
Homosexuals are under no obligation under the law to notify potential sex partners of their HIV status. I don’t see how these lawsuits could go on against people with CV19
Ask the Germans.
Risking lawsuits if they demand one be tested before shopping somewhere!“
Don’t be ridiculous. That’s like suing a cruise line because they insist on not letting virus-carriers absurd
Stores already forbid entrance to people who are health or hygiene risks. No shirt? No shoes? No entry!
The sports commissioners are already saying they need mass testing before their stadiums can open back up.
This is just common sense. Too many Freepers are bending over to deny that testing is common sense, because they think they have to in order to defend Trump
I’m a Trump supporter too, but testing is still common sense. Ask Taiwan and Singapore, where they kept businesses open by mass testing
The CDC and WHO don’t work in real numbers.
Once something has reached pandemic status and global spread they just work from models and not real numbers. This is the fact of the past and present. If anything has changed it’s the current occupant in the White House and lobbying from the Globalist Gates Foundation.
Or you could just tell us.
I would laugh if she weren’t wrecking people’s lives for evil purpose.
The estimates were wrong by an order of magnitude. Therefore my unconstitutional overreach is wonderful and it couldn’t be that, like every other pandemic panic, the models are garbage.
Now I will move the goalpost to “whenever a fictitious number is reached from our constantly-shifting measurements” and behold, you’re all in house arrest until you confess that 2+2=5.
How is this supposed to solve anything?
Ask Taiwan, where it has helped them keep their economy open
In US the lack of mass testing has played into the hands of the people who want our economy shut down. Even if the governors weren’t ordering shutdowns, many people would be staying away from businesses out of fear, because we don’t know who is or isn’t infected. Just like you wouldn’t go on a cruise right now, I bet, even if the governors said you were free to go.
OK Xi
It is and it isn’t.
Testing will only tell you if you have the virus at a certain point in time. You may test negative and two days later contract the virus.
What is really needed is a certain type of test. That test is the antibody test. That test was under development and not ready to be used on a mass scale Until recently.
What is really going on here is the usual talking point conflation used by the Democrats and the media. So they will say Trump was asleep on testing. But as I said above all testing it’s not alike. The real test that was needed, the one that would open us up as the Democrats suggest Had not even been reviewed by the FDA until two weeks ago. The only recently approved it.
Of course had Trump promoted that test, the media and the Democrats would’ve been crying it is unproven and not approved by the FDA.
No Xi, gubnors were crying it would be a
Constitutional crisIs if he dictated it
Gov. Beshear of Kentucky said recently that he would not lift lockdowns as long as one life could be saved. One life. Idiot Totalitarian.
The sports commissioners are either delusional or they are covering their asses. Do they really think sports fans are going to pay hundreds of dollars for tickets, and then submit themselves to an intrusive medical test before they can enter a stadium? I can’t think of ANY discretionary business I would ever conduct under those conditions.
We have to pass the bill before you can see the bill..
As I remember it, testing wasn’t so much the issue as getting the test results read. And I’m pretty sure our CDC slow walked things too but can’t remember specifically.
Exactly.
Guy who works for my brother-in-law tested negative 2 weeks ago and has been at work since.
His wife felt poorly and went to a drive in testing center. But the guy went with her, which is a no-no (supposed to only be the person getting tested in the car). So HE got tested again.
Both of them were positive. So now the guy isn’t going to work, but since the previous test was negative he’s already been at work the past 2 weeks.
How often are people going to be tested?
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