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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The worried well are insisting on testing and taking up scarce resources.  I don't understand why we lack access to comprehensive testing, but I CAN tell you that being a drama queen/king about insisting on a test when you are not in a health emergency and haven't had demonstrated contact with a positive case or hotspot is sucking up scarce resources. That lady who made such a stink about it a few days ago ended up being negative ... which anyone could have told her!

As hard as it is to stomach, people need to internalize that we are in a period of time where decisions have to be made for the common good, which means that your normal UMC  tactic of INSISTING ON WHAT I WANT WHEN I WANT IT is not going to work

TL; DR - if you are sick, stay home. If you get really sick, go to the ER.  [/quote]

You're attacking the wrong people.  You know that but you just don't care.

[b]Yes, anyone who wants to be tested should be.  That's how testing works.[/b]  That's the point of testing.  It is supposed to include negative people as well as positive people.  [/quote]

No, that's actually not how distribution of any scarce resource works.  Testing right now is very scarce, and even if it gets ramped up, will likely still be limited.  Demanding scarce medical resources for yourself contrary to what the medical & public health officials have determined is the rubric for access is quintessentially American and selfish.  [/quote]

I suppose you've never heard of Matt Gaetz.

Testing should not be and soon will not be a scarce resource.  Labs are ramping up production but the CDC guidelines are still a bottleneck -- not the number of tests anymore.  Look at the CDC site that shows numbers tested.  Those numbers could be higher by an order of magnitude now, private labs can be testing more samples.  They aren't because of the CDC guidelines, not because of a lack of tests or a lack of symptomatic people.  [/quote]

So you think everyone should be tested, even with no symptoms?  That's not going to happen. The fact is, in a well-run public health system, there are criteria for testing. It's not "test everyone" except in the case of screening tests with a proven cost-benefit ratio.  Obviously we need more testing now, but the fact that you can't walk into any urgent care and get a test when you have no symptoms is not going to change.  [/quote]

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