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This Is Not Satire
Just saw this on Twitter:
Faye Flam should be named Flim Flam. This is another stupid diktat in this never-ending pandemic saga.
Notice the caption under the picture: Californians wait for hours to get tested.
Let me get this right. On the one hand, we’re required to quarantine ourselves under lockdown orders. On the other hand, we’ll be required to venture forth every week to our local testing site to wait for hours to be tested.
It’s madness.
Published in Healthcare
It’s not as if no one is making any money in this, are they? Nah – that’s not a motivation. I wonder what it could be? And it’s that invisible money – taxpayer money.
Will that really be necessary once we are banned from leaving our homes?
Welcome to Earth.
An at-home test was approved this week. It requires a prescription and sounds expensive.
We so need a Rick Santelli moment on this thing.
I can’t believe that’s her name!
I’m invested in one of the testing bio-techs and their stock price is not budging even a little bit. I don’t know where the money is going, but it ain’t going here.
I seem to recall a Ricochet discussion several months ago on a suggestion for frequent mandatory testing. Once the numbers got fleshed out, it was clear that there was no way to handle the basic logistical demands.
I live in a town of 28,000 residents that is the county seat of a county in which probably half the county residents do not live in any town, so many of the “country” folk would be coming into town for testing. The county has a human population of about 140,000. So let’s say someplace in town would need to accommodate testing 50,000 people per week. That’s a little over 7,000 per day assuming 7 day per week testing. Assume 14 hours per day, and we could convince people to spread out across those 14 hours. 500 tests per hour. 8 tests per minute. Even at 2 people per car, that’s 4 cars per minute. We don’t have places to accommodate that kind of traffic.
And how much staff would be required? 80 – 100? From where? Deplete existing medical labs and doctor’s offices? We have two small hospitals in the county.
And we’re just one little town.
Just think of people panicking from all those false positives and being complacent from all those false negatives. We should not do it for the children.
I haven’t been tested yet, so I guess I’m about 35 tests behind already.
You don’t need a test. I can tell you you’re. . .oh, wait, is this about CoViD?
Why would I want a Covid test? I don’t get a flu test.
And what if we fail? Do we have to take a class and try the test again?
As Floyd R. Turbo, American used to say:
“This raises the question, kiss my grits.”
No to testing.
Period.
My heavy duty tinfoil says there is a reason behind these testing mandates. I dont know exactly why, but it is not to stop corona virus, and I thinking is more than money.
Also, why is it that we no longer see anything about China and Wuhan? And what about the Uighars?
It’s like we are pigeons and news stories are pigeon treats tossed to watch us chase…
Once we all relocated to our new Federal Indoctrination and Intubated Feeding Pods ™, you won’t need to worry about little things like your car, your brain, or your freedom.
I know an insider at one of the hospitals in our mid-sized city. Someone with a high position in the testing department. He tells me they’ve moved the quick tests out of ED and are using them on the floors — because shortage of test kits and somethin’ somethin’ somethin’ (having to do with testing staff, who are passing it around in the break rooms). I won’t even describe what is happening in the EDs because of this. You’re smart people. You can guess.
Just where the h-e-double hockey stick are these test kits going to come from?? Lefties live in an alternate universe where money grows on trees and we’re going to test the whole population once a week for COVID. When I was a leftie I used to say it about conservatives, but it actually applies here — “it’s like their brains have been sucked out.”
The irony is that if more and more of us are positive but asymptomatic it means that the serious risk is greatly lessening into nothing more than a weak flu season and that herd immunity is nigh. But instead of good news, it will be treated as a pretext for lockdowns forever and only allowed to leave home if there are still unpunched boxes on our ration cards.
Generally, dead people don’t tend to worry about those things.
Wasting tests on people with no serious symptoms, demanding tests solely based on travel, demanding tests weekly to go to school, using tests to create a frenzy of fear.
It is so disgusting.
How do we fight this?
Positive tests will decline when we run out of equipment to perform the tests. How close are we to that happening?
King County in WA is failing one of their metrics, ‘Are we testing enough to detect most cases?’ The criteria to be green is greater than or equal to 50 tests per positive cases result based on 7 day moving average in last 3 days. Admittedly, it is a mirror of another criteria, which is max 2% positive results for all tests to be in the green. How likely is it to meet the metric if the test itself were to have a false positive rate of greater than 2%? Does anybody know what the false positive rate is for tests likely being used? In Elon Musk’s case, it seems he had a false reading of around 50%, but we still don’t have it confirmed if he was positive.
the metrics were designed for failure. Isn’t that their point?