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Things will always be better in terms of testing / tracing / treatment options in a month, in June if we just wait until July things would be in a better place.
by fullshark 7y ago
Things will always be better in terms of testing / tracing / treatment options in a month, in June if we just wait until July things would be in a better place. Ultimately this is going to be about buying time for as long as is politically and economically possible. If more and more states open up and their situation doesn't look like a disaster because they are not as dense as NYC with almost 4 million people taking subways every day, then it's going to be harder and harder for the bay area politicians to claim we need to stay shut down.
- lazyasciiart 7y agoYou're arguing as though "better testing/tracing" is an amorphous goal that keeps moving, when people are actually talking about quite specific and quantifiable goals. For instance, in WA: "The recovery plan begins with widely available testing for individuals who may have contracted COVID-19, tracing for those who have come into close contact with COVID-19 positive individuals, and isolation or quarantine for individuals who could transmit the virus..... For the contact-tracing plan to work, the state needs to be processing between 20,000 and 30,000 tests a day." https://medium.com/@WAStateGov/inslee-announces-washingtons-covid-19-recovery-plan-c04f346340f1 https://medium.com/@WAStateGov/inslee-announces-washingtons-...
- fullshark 7y agoFair enough, I wasn't aware the exact number of tests per day was quantified. Let's see if they stick to that goal and achieve it, or revise requirements next month if they learn the R0 isn't as large as thought in certain regions or we have beneficial climate effects, etc.