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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.
christianSpaceman-
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.
Willing to bet my hat that precisely no Korean will rock up for a test so they can go and see their uncle at the weekend though. Required capacity is contextual.
Howard
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.