South Korea is not testing 10,000 plus a day for shits and giggles. And trying to increase that number.
We should be testing, because every person you can find, doesn’t mean you’ve stopped them from spreading already, but it means you might keep that person from spreading it to one more person, who then doesn’t spread it to 10 others, and so on
I don’t know at this point if it’s incompetence or not wanting the public to know the numbers, but the whole testing thing stinks, and how they are counting stinks. The President of the United States is out there on national TV saying he cares more about the numbers doubling than getting people off of a ship and into treatment. There’s so much going on with that, just kind-bottling. I’ll leave it at that - his statements speak for themselves.
But when you see a healthcare provider saying it’s endemic and they see no point in testing and the numbers don’t matter, that’s not about their patients, that’s about trying to salvage their reputation and possible financial responsibility
The families of those folks are starting to scream bloody murder, and that shit is going to be out there. It’s a lot harder to cover up these days The media loves grieving families
This head-in-the-sand approach is not logical, given our lack of open beds to handle this.
Testing is not about stopping it, it’s about getting it slowed down so our healthcare system can cope. Austin could probably handle a few hundred cases over a month, given those folks need 2-3 weeks in the hospital. We can’t handle a few hundred cases a week.
And we won’t take the hard measures needed to try and stop it, so we’ve got to try and slow it down and buy our hospitals time. And that means testing to get as many people isolated at home as we can.