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Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020

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SJHovey said:
I wasn't inconvenienced in the least. I had to go in anyway.

But literally a week (maybe less) after I had the test, I could have contracted the disease. I haven't had symptoms, but that doesn't mean that I didn't get it, right? I could have it right now, isn't that what you all have been telling me? So how did my May test benefit society, other than knowing at that instant in time I didn't have it.

The stupidity of it should be demonstrated to you by the NCAA plan. A couple of days before every game, all the players and coaches need to get tested. And then a couple of days before the next game, they all get tested again. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Again, if we have endless testing supplies, endless numbers of technicians drawing samples, endless numbers of labs analyzing the tests, great, let's do that.

Be we don't have that. That's why we see people sitting in cars for 24 hours waiting to get tested. It's why people in some locations people are waiting a week or more for their results. And these may be people with symptoms.
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But NCAA and NBA players do have those endless testing supplies. Hmmmm, why could that be?

Until we start respecting average everyday people in this country the waywe knobslobber over every two-bit college or pro athlete, then we aren't getting anywhere.
 
TalonsUpPuckDown said:
Attempted, but the courts deemed this a no-no. Any other ideas?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suga...rtion_cap_rule
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I’m thinking something much more progressive. We are in a different time. Unhealthy people will have diet and exercise regimens to follow that are tailored to their specific situation.

non compliance will result in having to stay inside with an ankle bracket. Unhealthy people are many times more susceptible of getting sick and spreading illness.

These laws will be good for the unhealthy individual improving their well being as well as the general public.
 
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Now I see what others mean by how annoying it is when others quote the troll.

Slavitt has some great tweets today. There’s no excuse for how we’ve handled this and every other continent has examples of governments that have handled this.

And trump wants to zero out funding for testing.
 
Probably have over 1100 dead today. Back up over 1000 deaths/day.

But I thought deaths were going down? That's what someone said two weeks ago as cases were beginning to increase.

What happened?
 
Now imagine using the test on a massive scale and using it as the sole diagnose tool of a virus. They don’t even have a standard what they are testing for. When it is all said and done the issues with the testing will be massively epic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.html

DPH said the affected patients were originally tested between June 15 and July 17. A total of 144 tested positive and 90 were discovered to be false positives.

Out of 144 positive tests just a cool 90 were discovered to be false positives. Which led to those folks be placed with people that actually had the disease.

https://apnews.com/b98cf80c36d338f833f3a47d84141d11

And another

https://www.providencejournal.com/n...lts?template=ampart&__twitter_impression=true
 
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Dimwit Donnie says:

"We are in the process of developing a strategy that's going to be very, very powerful.
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Hey, about time. Been seven months since you first heard about the virus.
 
Wow.

“The data from AZ is frustrating to the point of being almost unusable.
@Hold
points out all of the moving parts. Check the thread for his chart showing the impact that held over reporting has on the visual. 1 death/day for 30 days does not have the same meaning as 30 in one day”

https://mobile.twitter.com/AJKayWriter/status/1285636068512079875

Frustrating day again with AZDHS death report: - Removed ~50 deaths Sunday; re-added ~50 today on mostly the same days
 
SJHovey said:
A drop off in testing doesn't concern me in the least. We do way too much unnecessary testing in this country the way it is. As a result, we are wasting time and resources that should be spent on important testing. I think we should only test people who are symptomatic, who have come into contact with someone who has tested positive, or people who are going into health care facilities to either work or get treated (to prevent unknown exposure to healthcare workers). All of this drive thru nonsense just because people are curious is useless.
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Thankfully you are only on a message board and not in charge. This post is hands down the best example of why people who do not have knowledge or training in critical thinking/consequences related to epidemiology have no business doing anything more than playing Pandemic on a laptop keyboard.
 
SJHovey said:
In the non-existent fantasy world in which you reside, sure, we round everyone up this Friday, all 330 million plus of us get tested, a couple of hours later we know who has the disease, and we bring this to a halt.

Except, that world doesn't exist, and frankly can't exist. It's simply impossible to do that.

In the real world, where the rest of us reside, endless testing of asymptomatic people is generally useless. Yes, you might stumble across a few positives and we can then ask them to isolate or do contact testing. But the vast majority of it is a waste of precious testing resources and of precious time available from testing professionals.

I got tested back in May before a doctors appointment. I was negative. What does that do for me today?

My wife decided to go through one of the drive thru testing centers right after Memorial Day. She was negative. What does that tell us about her today?

Sure, if we've got everyone with symptoms tested, if we have all of their contacts tested, if we've tested everyone going in for medical procedures, and at that point we have a bunch of testing people and lab workers sitting around twiddling their fingers, waiting for more tests to perform, go ahead and start testing random asymptomatic people. No objection from me. But don't interfere with the important testing to do it.
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Actually there are countries who tested lots and lots of people and look where they are. We made excuses for why we should not try to do it. Look where we are. Hmmm. The nonsense about not being able to test is all to do with poor leadership and poor management of resources when we first started.
 
rufus said:
But NCAA and NBA players do have those endless testing supplies. Hmmmm, why could that be?

Until we start respecting average everyday people in this country the waywe knobslobber over every two-bit college or pro athlete, then we aren't getting anywhere.
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Wouldn't want to be some of those athletes. They are put in an untenable position- be safe and catch a ton of heat as well as put their future livelihood at risk or play and not be safe, put their livelihood at risk.
 
aparch said:
Downright disgusting conditions at an emergency center in Texas.

When Les reads this, she's going to overdose on chocolate milk.
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No amount of chocolate milk would do anything for that. Somewhere back in the first threads I was talking about how in the South their situation was worse than in some 3rd world countries. Here you go. And you aren't going to get to see how bad it really is going to get. Why do you think the CDC isn't getting data anymore?
 
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