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I thought the 100 billion was for the creation and scaling of a completely new test that would give you near instant results, hence a moon shot.
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I thought the 100 billion was for the creation and scaling of a completely new test that would give you near instant results, hence a moon shot.
No, the Moon Shot was a Cummings driven announcement to deflect media attention from the fact that they promised to do X by date Y and hadn't done that so rather than admit that they promise to do 100X by date Z and kick the can further down the road.
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I thought the 100 billion was for the creation and scaling of a completely new test that would give you near instant results, hence a moon shot.
Maybe. But not sure that is worth £100bn compared to the already existing tests that you can turn around in < 30 minutes. They're already using them at Rome airport.
Greenbank
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I mean, I get that testing on an enormous scale has a lot of challenges. Even just the moving shit from A to B side of the logistics is complex and sensitive to fuck ups. Just feels that "Operation Moonshot" would have been a lot easier if they had started it in the Spring rather than wait until the 2nd wave was underway to start.