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My objection is primarily that the OP asserted: - ventilators are useless - testing and contact tracing will be useless - all of these things slow down our p
by untog 7y ago
My objection is primarily that the OP asserted:
- ventilators are useless
- testing and contact tracing will be useless
- all of these things slow down our progress in studying the real answer
...without absolutely any evidence to back it up, or with any kind of disclaimer attached. In an environment where people are literally burning down cellphone masts because they think it's giving them COVID I don't think it's unreasonable to ask someone making such strident assertions where they're getting their conclusions from.
- glofish 7y agoThat the ventillators are not useful is stated in the top post. That our progress is slowed down because of the measures is also obvious and evident. The whole world is slowed down, why would you think research is not? As for contact tracing - if you think it a bit through and consider all the possible problems with both performing and enforcing it - not to mention the asymptomatic carriers and the windows of time in which that even makes sense to do it simply appears to be unfeasible. Not to mention that it is an approach that no one has ever tried to do before at this scale. Saying that the we will scale up a process in the US to a national level in a few months is absurd. I am simply pointing out that it is very unlikely that it would work and perhaps resources should be spent elswhere.