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[quote=Anonymous]There *are*, in fact, tests on this planet. People who are saying there are no tests are wrong. There just aren't tests in the US, and the ones we do have are being saved for the critically ill, health care workers, and apparently the NBA. At least the first two make sense, but even then there still aren't enough.

We all understand there is no treatment. I'm the poster who compared the "there is no treatment" crowd to the "it's just a bad flu" crowd, and my point was that in both cases people are thinking as individuals, concerned only with themselves. If you get covid, you will probably be fine, but no one actually gives a sht about you - the real issue is that you may spread the virus to someone who won't be fine. We are trying to protect the most vulnerable. This is about community and our moral obligations to one another.

Similarly, if you, a single individual, do not get a test, it will be fine. But again, no one gives a sht about any one individual here. The lack of tests - IN THE US, NOT ON PLANET EARTH - is a systemic failure indicative of larger problems that will prevent us from handling this properly and it is going to cost lives. Testing OP is not just for OP. It's also for the health care workers who interacted with her. You think they like not knowing whether or not she actually has it, whether or not they've been exposed? You think it's effective to take a health care worker offline while they wait two weeks to see whether or not they've been exposed (because guess who else can't get a test...)? You think it's helpful to send her back to her community without a clear answer for those she's been in contact with? You think the WHO is stressing testing just because it amuses them?

The problem with pandemics is that dealing with them requires that everyone NOT be a selfish, narcissistic a$$hole. It requires systemic, holistic thinking, which in this country basically makes you a communist. The US' downfall here will be that selfish narcissim is the very core of its entire being, with the most selfish, incompetent, narcissist of all leading the response. [/quote]

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