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Wasn't this the White House strategy? They were doing daily rapid antigen tests, and have had several outbreaks.

by 04rob 6y ago

cryptoz 6y ago
No, the White House strategy was to ridicule anyone who wore a mask. To make life miserable for you at work if you considered the virus to be a risk. The White House strategy was based on convincing people there that the virus was fake. Not anything to do with rapid daily antigen test. From what I read, that wasn't an enforced thing anyway. Sounds like people there were also just not getting the tests at all.
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  Whether you want to blame the CCP, WHO or the White House, the reality is that corona is highly contagious and everybody will get it, mask or not. It was the job of the CDC to create a vaccine after SARS-1 in 2002/2003, and they failed to either fund or develop one. There is very little any politician can do once a virus is endemic, as it is in the US, especially with 50 states. As an example that's comparable to the US situation overall, Toronto did everything right including testing from Day One, yet they've reported 100,000 cases and are doing a hard lockdown: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/21/americas/toronto-lockdown-covid-intl/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/21/americas/toronto-lockdown-cov...
- zzleeper 6y ago
  It's not that surprising that you were downvoted, given the bias seen lately in HN. More on point, what works on a national scale might not work only within the white house, because (besides lack of mask) the white house is not completely isolated from the rest of the country.
- ScottBurson 6y ago
  I read an article the other day about a nurse with Covid patients who refused to believe they had Covid at all, because they're convinced it's a hoax. The damage Trump has done is incalculable.
addicted 6y ago
They also haven’t been following basic safety protocols. Further, we learnt when Trump had COVID that they were actually not even testing Trump on a regular basis. That’s probably also true of other members of the administration.
danenania 6y ago
It seems that even extremely frequent testing isn’t enough to prevent outbreaks without any other precautions. False negatives are too common.
twblalock 6y ago
The problem with testing is that a negative test today does not prevent you from catching the virus tomorrow. All you have to do is be in contact with someone who has it. So you can't just test. You also need to avoid contact with other people, unless they have also tested negative. The White House clearly was not doing that. Even if they had, the tests are not totally reliable. Given the number of people who come and go from the White House on a regular basis, it's kind of a surprise they didn't have an outbreak earlier than they did.

Wasn't this the White House strategy? They were doing daily rapid antigen tests, and have had several outbreaks.

by 04rob 6y ago

Wasn't this the White House strategy? They were doing daily rapid antigen tests, and have had several outbreaks.

No, the White House strategy was to ridicule anyone who wore a mask. To make life miserable for you at work if you considered the virus to be a risk. The White House strategy was based on convincing people there that the virus was fake. Not anything to do with rapid daily antigen test. From what I read, that wasn't an enforced thing anyway. Sounds like people there were also just not getting the tests at all.

redis_mlc 6y ago
Whether you want to blame the CCP, WHO or the White House, the reality is that corona is highly contagious and everybody will get it, mask or not. It was the job of the CDC to create a vaccine after SARS-1 in 2002/2003, and they failed to either fund or develop one. There is very little any politician can do once a virus is endemic, as it is in the US, especially with 50 states. As an example that's comparable to the US situation overall, Toronto did everything right including testing from Day One, yet they've reported 100,000 cases and are doing a hard lockdown: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/21/americas/toronto-lockdown-covid-intl/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/21/americas/toronto-lockdown-cov...
zzleeper 6y ago
It's not that surprising that you were downvoted, given the bias seen lately in HN. More on point, what works on a national scale might not work only within the white house, because (besides lack of mask) the white house is not completely isolated from the rest of the country.
ScottBurson 6y ago
I read an article the other day about a nurse with Covid patients who refused to believe they had Covid at all, because they're convinced it's a hoax. The damage Trump has done is incalculable.

addicted 6y ago

They also haven’t been following basic safety protocols. Further, we learnt when Trump had COVID that they were actually not even testing Trump on a regular basis. That’s probably also true of other members of the administration.

danenania 6y ago

It seems that even extremely frequent testing isn’t enough to prevent outbreaks without any other precautions. False negatives are too common.

twblalock 6y ago

The problem with testing is that a negative test today does not prevent you from catching the virus tomorrow. All you have to do is be in contact with someone who has it. So you can't just test. You also need to avoid contact with other people, unless they have also tested negative. The White House clearly was not doing that. Even if they had, the tests are not totally reliable. Given the number of people who come and go from the White House on a regular basis, it's kind of a surprise they didn't have an outbreak earlier than they did.