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What were holding out for is testing capacity. Once tests are readily available, we can isolate people who catch it and all they people they've been in contact
by hannasanarion 7y ago
What were holding out for is testing capacity. Once tests are readily available, we can isolate people who catch it and all they people they've been in contact with, and the virus can be held down in quarantine while the rest of society goes on.
This strategy has worked in China and South Korea, where life is now slowly resuming, but most other countries haven't caught up with their testing numbers yet.
The reason we're all quarantined now is that there's presently no rapid reliable way to tell who needs to be quarantined and who doesn't.
- standardUser 7y ago"What were holding out for is testing capacity." Really? Because I have heard of no plan at the federal or state level to implement a wide-scale test and trace program to contain the virus. This seems like a very good idea, but not one being implemented in the US.
- ygra 7y agoThe US is far beyond containment at this point. As are many other countries right now, as well. Only when the cases go down again due to successful measures is containment an option again, as you need enough resources to trace contacts and test every potential infection.
- standardUser 7y ago"Only when the cases go down again due to successful measures is containment" We have already taken measures to contain the virus. So why aren't we preparing these needed resources for testing and tracing while the lockdowns are in effect? Two months will pass and we will be no better prepared than we are today because no government in the US is working towards this. The containment will be for nothing, just a temporary measure that will have to be repeated over and over because we aren't even trying to implement a better solution.