Ever notice that Dr Birx and Fauci don't talk up the need for mass testing? Just the opposite, Birx for a long time was saying only those with significant symptoms needed testing.
Coincidentally (?) , this policy played into the hands of those who want to shut down the whole economy, because without testing we don't know who has the virus and who doesn't. Since anybody can be a carrier, nobody should be free to leave their house!
Testing is the key to freeing the economy - as in Taiwan. Those who test positive stay home, those who test negative keep going to work and keep their businesses open.
Do you think it's a coincidence that the US public health experts who seem so excited about being able to close the economy, seem so uninterested in expanding testing?
Dr. Fauci explained exactly why mass testing is completely useless in this case, and I've posted that explanation here on FR every time I've read your silly claim that testing 330 million people -- apparently on an hourly basis, since that's the only way it would be effective -- is even possible, let alone necessary.
I’ll test if I show symptoms. Other than that it’s the mark of the beast.
You have a point to the degree that once they’ve done roughly 30 million antibody tests it will become evident to all that the original models were crap.
But testing everyone is never going to happen.
Oh...would you please stop?! Even Fauci understands this doesn’t work...sheesh m
Testing is the tool the rats are going to use keep the country closed. The rat Governors are already using it to move the goalposts. There will never be enough and there is no end to it.
God bless him, he’s in there battling like nobody else was up for. But Trump should have gone authoritarian on using the DPA to get a gazillion tests built 6-8 weeks ago.
Sure, they’d move on to something else to gripe about, but people have been stressed about not being able to get tested for months now.
God bless him, he’s in there battling like nobody else was up for. But Trump should have gone authoritarian on using the DPA to get a gazillion tests built 6-8 weeks ago.
Sure, they’d move on to something else to gripe about, but people have been stressed about not being able to get tested for months now.
Would you ever give the FBI and/or a FISA court judge access to your test results?
'Eff that sh!t. Go away, dude.
I don’t mean to be disagreeable, but how is this really supposed to work? We all get tested, and people go back to work, but the police can stop you at any time and say “Papers, please.” And then you have to show your test results to prove that you are allowed to move about freely within the country?
Is that what it’s coming down to?
I’m not necessarily against the Testing (but I won’t be taking Bill Gates’ vaccine). I would like the economy to re-open. But I don’t want to see the re-opening of the economy tied to mandatory testing.
So what’s our answer for those either tested positive or in limbo quarantining at home with others, in apartment buildings, etc.
Without something to do with them, how much of a difference really does the testing make for that?
Where it does make a difference is in getting people with mild symptoms treatment in time. By the time they are having trouble breathing it is too often too late.
The only tests worth while are those that test to see if you've had it, gotten over it or never had any symptoms what-so-ever!
I think anyone who returns to work or are already employed by May 1, 2020 will have to be tested for coronavirus antibodies by the end of May 2020. In short, I may have to be blood-tested soon....
OK, try to understand. You cannot test for coronavirus DAILY to base keeping a working economy going.
Check for the antibodies-— prior exposure with immunity.n
It is clear, from the edited interview with Gates-— that the investors who want to force a vaccine.... do NOT want herd immunity developing (thereby negating any need for a required vaccine to this bio-engineered weapon from china).
They ARE the same ones who do not want mass testing-— which would show the nearly .0001% factual rate of infection. And also showing why, for their “models” they are combining causality of death with SARSCoV2-CCP virus.... to JUKE the numbers....just “because”. Simply irresponsible.
We will open our economy, people will practice the distancing and hygeine needed to slow this to.... nothing. Then we will see.
The ones wanting to stretch this out (like Fauci on good morning america this AM for example) WANT the continuing degradation of business and dependency on govt. fake money to continue, and think this will take down the landslide.
Large scale testing for the disease itself and for it’s anti-bodies would go a long way toward moving things along.
I stopped reading at this point. Mr. Forbes, your hyperbole is underwhelming. Go screw yourself. Get the F'n government out of healthcare, business and personal lives. We'll take care of ourselves. Everything the government touches becomes broken.
“Ever notice that Dr Birx and Fauci don’t talk up the need for mass testing?”
Actually they’ve wished for that from the start. We can’t do mass testing because we don’t have millions of testing kits to spare. There’s only been enough to test those displaying Covid symptoms.
Taiwan & South Korea testing everyone is like the U.S. testing 2 states.
Population Taiwan = 24 million
Pop. South Korea = 51 million
Population Texas = 29 million
Population California = 40 million
Population United States = 328 million
“””In the daily White House briefing, we should hear updates on the number of tests performed, the major barriers to scaling up testing and what the White House is doing to remove them. “””
If the ‘learned’ professor, who wrote this story and actually listened to Trump’s press conferences, was up-to-date he would know that last Friday Dr Birx among other things said that a whole lot of STATE RUN UNIVERSITIES have a lot of testing equipment that is NOT being used for COVID testing.
The ‘learned’ professor is probably using the testing equipment at his university to check monkey semen to see how many have MIV.
The ‘learned’ professor even misquoted the current number of tests being down each day. I believe the USA is currently around 300,000 per day.
Fauch said that testing is only a snapshot in time.
That you’d have to test, daily, as a negative person could become positive.
” if we are to reopen the economy as soon as possible without a resurgence of this ghastly disease. “
Aka, Goalpost moving. Who said that’s the goal?!? It sure wasn’t the justification for the lockdowns. And it shouldn’t be justification for not reopening!
Same # will get infected with or without surges. Same #’s will die. And to date, nobody has proven this lockdown saves even 1 life.
Now all of a sudden the opponents of testing are fans of Fauci.
Let’s hope Trump’s stops this crap that we can’t test everybody.
Let’s get back to being a country that finds ways to do things rather than find reasons not to.
All we heard about was Earth being turned over to produce ventilators. But all of a sudden we can’t make much simpler machines and can’t produce cotton swabs?
Make testing machines mobile and let people know what time you’ll be on their street. Even if it’s 3 in the morning. We end this thing clean in a month.