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anti-temperature perfectionism is what got us into this mess. having quick, imperfect tests and good follow up brought South Korea under control. anti-test per
by ferzul 7y ago
anti-temperature perfectionism is what got us into this mess. having quick, imperfect tests and good follow up brought South Korea under control.
anti-test perfectionism means the entire west is shut down. we only had so many perfect tests, so we tested almost no one.
- techopoly 7y agoPerfect is the enemy of good.
- oski 7y agoMy point isn’t that taking temperature checks needs to be perfect, but that they are focusing their intervention on symptomatic spreading rather than asymptomatic spreading. They would benefit more with immediate action by giving employees nonmedical fabric masks and making them mandatory TODAY rather than waiting for surgical masks next week.
- dmoy 7y agoGP is agreeing with you. The phrase "perfect is the enemy of good" is a criticism of striving for perfection when you could be doing other good stuff in the meanwhile. That is, perfect (waiting for super accurate tests, etc) is the enemy of good (testing temperatures, wearing basic masks now).
- oski 7y agoOk, thanks for clarifying.
- throwaway122378 7y agoA lot of this going around lately. Just because you don’t agree with someone, their opinion isn’t the cause of this mess. OP has a point and I’ve read the number of asymptomatic as high as 50%. Other than creating more corporate control over employees, statistically how do temp checks improve the situation? A better solution would be the 5 mins tests. Then you have a 99% certainty.
- mindslight 7y agoMany opinions have significantly contributed to the mess we're in. It's obviously impossible to go back in time and fix the mistakes of the past six weeks, but it's definitely worth calling out harmful inaction-memes when they're still being repeated!