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Originally Posted by skarra
I don't get why the richest country in the world is at #42 on the tests/1M population chart ( Coronavirus Update (Live): 2,628,469 Cases and 183,491 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer). It is still very difficult to get a test weeks after we were promised they were available to everyone.
If we don't know where we stand re infections (the hidden threat), how can we make a sane decision that it's safe to go back to business as usual?
Hope is not a strategy. I've no confidence in what they're telling me - it is NOT safe to go back to "normal" until we get more testing done. |
We are behind because of ridiculous bureaucratic rules by the FDA/CDC that mandated that tests must be developed by the CDC, plus the FDA would not approve foreign tests. In trying to develop a test, the CDC completely blew it in that their test did not work.
Finally, Trump directed the FDA and CDC to embrace the private sector and allow them into test development, but precious time had been lost. Many tests have now been developed, it's now about filling the supply chain.
Don't get too comfortable with testing being the solution, it isn't. We will never, ever test and retest all 330 million Americans. It just isn't practical or possible, so there will be some virus around for a long, long time.