She’s right, IMHO. We need mass testing to make a decision.
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.
It shouldn’t take much mass testing to determine that many people have already had it and recovered.
So far as testing to startup the economy again — wouldn’t everyone have to be tested every day to determine if they could transmit the virus? And aren’t the experts still in agreement that you can transmit the virus long before a test reveals you have it?
While it sounds good on the surface, I think testing is another massive shift of the goalposts in order to keep the lockdowns going.
With a false positive rate of 50%, it is a colossal waste of time and resources. With that high a failure rate, a person could test negative one day and positive the next. Mass testing is nonsense.