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I said it before. Getting an unwarranted test is the logical extension of bog-roll stockpiling.
I can see the sentiment behind this statement but I don't see it like that.
Unwarranted testing should have been a goal for the government by this stage. The ideal situation is being able to encourage people to get tested on a whim and have the capacity to do it. Its the only way to make people feel safe going about their lives, earning and spending money, without worrying about killing their grans.
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The ideal situation is being able to encourage people to get tested on a whim and have the capacity to do it.
I completely agree, but being fucking useless at actually doing that, and creating a situation where there is a fear of lack of tests, they've completely fucking blown that.
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The ideal situation is being able to encourage people to get tested on a whim and have the capacity to do it.
Yes, this. I remember early doors it was reported that S Korea had freely available testing, including drive in ones that people could just rock up to. It's completely obvious that that should be what you should be working towards.
I'm no statistician, but I can easily believe that negative test results, along with some basic information of who took them, has value in modelling in any case (or at least, I don't believe that only positive or symptomatic tests have value).
I assume the Moonshot stuff is rubbish with a snappy title (like 'Star Wars'?). It was reported that the technology doesn't exist to do it, ergo it's not going to happen in anything like a suitable timescale.
Whoever proposed it should have been shut down at that point - at my place of work if I suggested something for an almost immediate delivery that we not only couldn't use (licence / supplier or whatever), but also that didn't exist then that conversation would go no further.
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christianSpaceman
I said it before. Getting an unwarranted test is the logical extension of bog-roll stockpiling.
A large number of the population seem to have the mindset that they don't want to miss out on having a test when they really need one so they'll go and get a test as often as they can when they don't really need one.