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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Open up, and just keep social distancing and wearing a mask. Done.

It is unrealistic to shut down everything for 18 months. That vaccine Billy Boy is funding might be worse than the virus itself because it won’t have time to be tested.

But people have to get back to work. The backlash of shutting down the country will lead to deaths due to food supplies and shortages, transportation, people who have health issues will die and people with mental issues will end up killing themselves.

You can’t lock someone in their house with a business that they are using that to survive away from them. This will lead to devastating economic impacts and lead to more deaths. But this is a virus, not a death sentence. Anytime you step out your house, it’s a risk. We can’t live our lives in fear.[/quote]

If you open up without proper testing, you are guaranteed to have a resurgence of disease. If you are comfortable getting infected, don't let me stop you. Feel free infect yourself and your family. Just don't expect others to take that risk on your behalf.

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Exactly why don't we have all the tests available that we want?[/quote]

Any ideas here? Was responding to Jeff, but would welcome concrete suggestions from anyone. What exactly is the holdup with getting more tests????[/quote]

As I said earlier, testing was the original sin of the US response. Instead of adopting the WHO test, the US developed its own which was flawed. That limited testing in the beginning. Then, as more testing was rolled out, laboratory processing became a bottleneck. Now we are moving to point of care tests but for some reason that are still constrained. This has been a failure of leadership. Trump should have mobilized federal resources including the military and use of the DPA to address this. Even now, Trump refuses to take responsibility and just a couple of hours ago tweeted that the states have to do more testing. Instead of a national effort, we have to have 50 independent efforts (more, including territories and DC).

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1. Which WHO test are you referring to? 
2. Where exactly are these WHO tests?[/quote]

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